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    1. templar223

      Central Illinois Preparedness Expo - Sat, August 9th, Clinton, IL

      The fifth annual Central Illinois Preparedness Expo will be held Saturday, August 9th at the DeWitt County Sportsman's Club. Hours are from 9am - 5pm, with hourly presentations both inside the clubhouse and outdoors under canopies. Topics include: Blacksmithing Outdoor Cooking Personal...
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      Video feature on Guns Save Life group at The Atlantic

      Sharing this with my friends at INGO. Guns Save Life is featured in a video story at The Atlantic this afternoon. The video does a pretty fair job capturing the "family" of Guns Save Life, the fun and fellowship we enjoy in our activities. Take a look. Given it was done by the mainstream...
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      IL: Gov. Quinn's gun ban bill rebuked in Illinois Senate

      Quinn's gun ban bill rebuked in Illinois Senate (Guns Save Life) - Illinois Governor Pat “Clueless” Quinn was resoundingly rebuked by a 49-4 vote yesterday as the Senate over-rode the governor’s earlier amendatory veto of SB 681. The common sense gun bill originally had widespread...
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      Welcome Home Grampa Ed: Honor Flight 3 lands in Champaign, IL

      As the author, permission is granted to republish/reprint this with attribution. Thanks. I noticed at least one of these WWII vets was from Ft. Wayne, Indiana on this flight. John Welcome Home Grampa Ed! Ed Fletcher is welcomed home by his great grandchildren at the return of the Central...
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      A weekend at DeWitt Co. Sportsmen's Club, Clinton, IL - Templar223

      The DeWitt Co. Sportsmen's Club is located 6 miles east of the Clinton, IL city limit on Rt. 10. The facility has two ranges - one is a 100 yard rifle range (soon to be the "pistol" line) and a second range which is currently available out to about 50 yards and will soon be the new 100+ yard...
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      Champaign, IL gun buyback: All 104 guns collected by make, model

      Guns Save Life sent FOIA bombs to local police agencies seeking lists of the guns turned in at the August 4th gun buyback in Champaign, IL. While we'd never even hope to get a similar list from Chicago for their buyback, this local list does reaffirm our earlier experiences about the nature of...
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      Chicago (home of Illinois’ strictest gun control) isn’t safe: Over 75% of homici

      Chicago (home of Illinois’ strictest gun control) isn’t safe: Over 75% of homicides unsolved, year to date And Governor Quinn and House Speaker Madigan want to export Chicago gun control (and Chicago crime) to the rest of Illinois. Thanks guys, but no thanks. We're pushing back! John
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      Blockbuster announcement from McLean County, IL state's atty today (Monday)

      Blockbuster announcement: McLean Co. State’s Attorney says “No charges for FOID holders merely exercising 2nd Amendment rights” | GUNS SAVE LIFE In short, McLean County State's Attorney has called Illinois' prohibition on right-to-carry unconstitutional and he's not going to prosecute FOID-card...
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      Champaign, IL gun buyback report and Pastors Behaving Badly

      Both of these are from Guns Save Life and written by me, John B., aka Templar223 and offered here without restriction. Feel free to reproduce, share or post in other locations... First up, the report, then an editorial I wrote tonight. Cut and pasted from InDesign. Some formatting may not...
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      Kids, guns and fun - paid for by Chicago. Was your weekend this much fun?

      Chicago buy back money put to good use by John Boch (aka Templar223) Guns Save Life Darnall's GunWorks and Ranges hosted their 18th annual National Rifle Association Youth Shooting Camp July 26-29th west of Bloomington, IL. One hundred thirty young people ages 8-16 showed up to...
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      A follow-up to Sarah McKinley's Blanchard, OK self-defense shooting...

      While I wouldn't call this a "happy ending", it's certainly a step in the right direction for Sarah McKinley so she may sleep peacefully at night without fear the other intruder (who is out on bond) might return. Sarah McKinley, 18, picks up her new shotgun at KAIROS Services, LLC near...
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      Fortress Defense's Tactical Treatment of GSWs AAR

      Fortress Defense's Tactical Treatment of Gunshot Wounds After Action by John Boch (GunNews Magazine, Guns Save Life.com) - Fortress Defense Consultants, headed up by Frank Sharpe, offered a Tactical Treatment of Gunshot Wounds course in early December in northeastern Illinois. Exactly ten...
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      American Marksman Course AAR: USRA puts their shots in the X-ring w/ this course

      The new USRA puts their shots in the X-ring with this new course American Marksman Course After Action Report by John Boch (GunNews) - I joined about 15 other shooters on Saturday, November 12th for a fast-paced and very enjoyable one-day American Marksman rifle shooting course put on...
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      Introduction from an Illinoisan

      Maybe someday we'll be like you in IN... My name is John Boch and I'm the VP of Guns Save Life, a regional gun rights organization in east central IL. We're perhaps most famous for those pro-gun Burma-shave style highway signs you might have seen along I-74 in IL or elsewhere in IL. We also...
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      Indy1500 show car breakins... still going on?

      Was on a discussion in another board where a gentleman referenced a thread here about car breakins at the Indy1500 show. I visit the 1500 at least a couple of times a year and this has caused me some concern about the safety and security of the lot there. I had always assumed the security...
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