Guns Save Life

CalGuns is reporting that Ruger is about to abandon the California market for semi-autos thanks to that state’s insane gun control laws.  (Gun laws that people like Dick Metcalf would screech as “reasonable”).

(CalGuns) – Ruger is going to stop selling semiautomatic pistols in California:

In perhaps one of the more shocking discoveries at the 2014 SHOT Show, Ruger spokesperson Kevin Reid revealed that Ruger was going to let it’s entire California Semiautomatic pistol roster “…drop off…” the CA Department of Justice Approved Handgun List.

It seems that in Ruger’s slavish dedication to the concept of “continuous improvement”, and that California is milking some $ 500 per pistol per year to stay on the list AND that microstamping is now the rule, Ruger has alread

Dick Metcalf: Unemployed. Until his next formal job offer comes from an anti-gun group.

“The hijacking of our movement by these radical extremists causes me to fear for the future of the right I have spent my adult life fighting to defend . . . When we engage in noisy, extremist rhetoric rejecting all firearms regulation whatsoever, or refuse to acknowledge the plain fact that constitutionally validated regulations and statutes already exist, we risk alienating the American mainstream. And if we lose that mainstream, we will lose this war.” Dick Metcalf, Target: Me [via politico.com]

Go ahead and read the whole thing.  Have anti-nausea medication close by thoug

by John Boch

Guns Save Life has been online in our current blog form for about fifteen months now and we continue to grow.

Personally, I’ve always worked hard to grow and improve.

One of my favorite strategies is to identify someone doing things well and then work to do better than that.

In this case, my role model was our sister gun rights group, the internet-based IllinoisCarry.com.

IllinoisCarry.com has been around for about eight or nine years now.  They’ve got themselves an Illinois-centric forum along with a blog and other aspects of their website.

All in all, they run a pretty good operation over there and have had steady growth in both traffic and number of registered “members”.   In the past five years, their members (who are also often overlapping members of more traditional gun rights groups like the NRA, ISRA, GSL, SCRA, and others) have done quite a bit of grunt work with the Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day.

To their credit, many of these same people have also organized a series of community meetings promoting right-to-carry throughout the state, including in the heart of gun haters, Chicagoland.

Illinois Carry’s spokesman Valinda Rowe is a charismatic speaker and has won awards with her tire

Honest Abe Lincoln once was famously quoted as saying, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

in the past couple of days, we’ve seen a pair of stories about low-information legislators that boggle the mind.

Let’s start with our neighbors in Missouri.

Low-information legislator of the year candidate from Missouri, Democrat State Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal with her bedtime reading material.

Democrat State Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal from Jefferson City, Missouri introduced a new bill, Senate Bill 549, that would require parents to register their guns with their schools when they enroll their children.  Parents would face a $100 fine for failing to register each gun and would be required to notify the school of additional gun purchases.  The bill would also require these same families to lock up their safety, charging parents

Walmart prohibits on-duty employees and vendors in their stores from carrying weapons as a matter of corporate policy in all fifty states.

With Illinois poised to join 49 other states with law-abiding, licensed good guys carrying firearms on their person, Wal-Mart’s corporate people have caused all sorts of consternation among gun owners in Illinois with the posting of new signs in all Illinois stores, reiterating this corporate policy.

The sign looks similar to the official sign that the Illinois State Police has directed to be posted for businesses wishing to ban carry in their buildings:

This similarity has quite a few people crying “foul!&#8221

For $71.50.

Shop around, folks.

Or just submit without fingerprints.

Champaign County Sheriff Dan Walsh will be at the Tuesday night Rantoul GSL meeting.  You’ll have a chance to ask him why he chose this particular price point.

– John

Fingerprinting for Conceal Carry License Applicants

Beginning THURSDAY Jan 9, 2014 and on the following THURSDAYS the Champaign County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) will begin doing fingerprinting for conceal carry license applicants.  Presently this servicewill only be offered on Thursdays, we will reassess this as we see how much demand exists.

The total charge for this is $71.50 which includes the ISP and FBI fees. You will need to bring in cash, money order or local personal check payable to CCSO for $71.50. We will transmit the FBI & ISP portion of the fees to the Illinois State Police.

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Public library computer work stations can be used to apply for a CCW license in Illinois.

We here at Guns Save Life have been trying to figure out how to organize a network of volunteers to assist those without internet access or those not technologically savvy in applying for the new Illinois CCW license.

It can be frustrating, to say the least, even for those know are on computers regularly.

We’ve hit upon a solution that’s readily available to most folks:  their local library.

Almost all libraries today have public computer workstations where you can fill out the required online application for an Illinois Digital ID and the Illinois Concealed Carry License.   These libraries also have document scanners to scan in your training certificates as well as a photo of yourself.  If you have difficulties using the c

Graphic video. Don’t watch if you get squeamish about blood.

The first rule of using and storing a projectile weapon:  Know your target and what’s beyond it.

This rule applies to staple guns…  and slingshots as well.

Know that projectiles may bounce back, as this German gentleman discovered the hard way.  He’s fortunate in many ways.

He could have put his eye out, but he’s gonna need stitches.  Lots of stitches.

Skip to 1:20 for the gory part.

A great-grandmother in Shreveport, LA had her .38 pistol stolen in a burglary in December went to a local pawn shop and bought herself a new pistol for home defense.

Little did she know that less than a month later, the same burglar – a 16-year-old thug – would be back in a home invasion.

Devon Antonio Young thought he was going to score big bucks in the grandmother’s safe that he couldn’t break open during his first “visit”.

Instead, she handed him a bag with $55 in coins and two rounds of hot lead.

Dead right there.