 New in the line of Winchester Repeating Arms historical rifles is the Model 1873 Sporter Octagon Color Case Hardened rifle. The 1873 is world-renowned as "The Gun that Won the West." Now you can own the real thing featuring Grade II/III walnut straight grip stock with satin oil finish, a classic rifle style forearm with color case hardened cap, and a crescent buttplate. The full octagon 24" barrel with full-length magazine tube holds 13 rounds of 357 Magnum or 14 rounds of 38 Special or 44-40 Winchester. MSRP: $1,739.99. |
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The 250+ acre Aurora Sportsmen's club in Waterman, Illinois, is accepting new membership applications.
The Midwest's premier family shooting sports club includes a quarter mile of pistol/rifle ranges from 50 feet to 600 yards, three lighted trap fields and two skeet fields, five stand, a very challenging natural prairie sporting clays course, 3-D archery, stocked fishing ponds, a small golf driving range and hunting on the property.
The Aurora Sportsmen's Club offers a robust calendar of educational and recreation shooting events including the Civilian Marksmanship Program, IDPA competition, bulls eye shooting, black powder, action shooting sports, trap shooting and much more.
For further information call 815-264-9000 Ext. 44 or visit us on our website www.aurorasc.org.
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A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new
Albert Einstein
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Hogue has announced their line of left and right-hand automatic retention carry holsters for a wide variety of handguns including Glock, Beretta, Sig Sauer, Walther, Smith & Wesson, CZ and Springfield. All models feature the company's patented Automatic Retention System with a discretely-located thumb release on the inside of the holster. They also include a flexible, comfortable paddle that conforms beautifully to the hip, an included belt plate option, and a built-in cant that eliminates the need for easy-to-lose spacers and washers. Most models can be configured for straight, FBI angle or cross draw positioning and all feature a contoured, low print profile. MSRP: $49.95.
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The Illinois State
Rifle Association
Protecting Illinois gun owners since 1903
Join today!
(815) 635-3198
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More shooting ranges exist in your area than you probably realize. Search for them and find what they have to offer with the popular Where To Shoot app developed by the National Shooting Sports Foundation. Available for free in the Apple App Store and Google Play, Where To Shoot puts North America's most comprehensive directory of shooting ranges in the palm of your hand.
The app also includes video tips for shooters, news and firearm safety information. Users can search for ranges by location or zip code and find specifics about each range, including types of shooting supported, accessibility, instruction, directions and contact information. The app is modeled after NSSF's popular WhereToShoot.org website and is updated frequently with range information in every U.S. state and Canadian province. New tips for hunters and shooters are also added regularly. iPhone and iPad or
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Chicago's largest firearm training school offers over 30 group & private courses including beginner, advanced & personal protection. SAFER USA has taught over 6,000 students.
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Excerpt from
Time to Get Tough:
Making America #1 Again
Chapter 6: Strengthen American Muscle
By Donald Trump
1. American interests come first. Always.
No apologies
2. Maximum firepower and military
preparedness
3. Only go to war to WIN
4. Stay loyal to your friends and
suspicious of your enemies
5. Keep the technological sword razor
sharp
6. See the unseen. Prepare for threats
before they materialize
7. Respect and support our present and
past warriors
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Murder Rates Drop as
Concealed Carry Permits Soar
In a July 14th article in the Washington Times, journalist Kellan Howell noted the number of concealed carry handgun permits has skyrocketed since President Obama was first elected while murder rates have fallen, according to a new report released Wednesday. Since 2007 the number of concealed handgun permits has soared from 4.6 million to over 12.8 million; murder rates have fallen from 5.6 killings per 100,000 people to just 4.2, about a 25 percent drop, according to the report from the Crime Prevention Research Center.
And the number of permits issued is increasing faster every year. Over 1.7 million new permits were issued last year - a 15.4 percent increase over 2013, the largest such single-year jump ever, according to the report from the center led by President John R. Lott and research director John E. Whitley. The number of concealed carriers is likely even higher, since permits are not required in eight states. Gun rights advocates say that the findings in the report fall in line with their personal experiences and research and directly refute the liberal argument that more guns lead to more violence.
"It puts the lie to the myth promulgated by anti-gun individuals that somehow more law-abiding citizens carrying guns will lead to more crime. In fact, quite the opposite is the case," said Larry Keene, Senior Vice President and General Counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation. "More law-abiding citizens own firearms for self-protection, and crime continues to decline."
But gun control advocates denounced the report, pointing to other studies showing concealed handguns are more frequently used for non-self-defense killings. [Read the entire article]
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On this week's On Target Radio, David and Gretchen's guest will be the Reverend Dr. Eric Wallace discussing the July 31st symposium "In Defense of Life: Why All Lives Matter," at the Tinley Park Convention Center. The event, sponsored by the Freedom's Journal Institute, features Mike Huckabee and Ben Carson.
Be sure to listen and call in with your comments and questions at 312-642-5600, this Sunday evening from 9 to 10 p.m. on AM560 THE ANSWER or go to our Facebook page - On Target Radio -ask a question there, and we'll read it on the air. You can listen to the show on AM560, or hear it live stream on the WIND web site or watch the show via our in-studio camera at Youtube, www.youtube.com/user/OnTargetRadio.
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2015 Firearms-Related Injury Statistics
Data released by the National Safety Council demonstrates that unintentional firearms-related fatalities continue to remain at historically low levels. In fact, in the last two decades, the number of unintentional firearms-related fatalities has declined by 65 percent - from 1,521 unintentional fatalities in 1993 to 530 in 2013. Firearms are involved in fewer than a ½-percent of all unintentional fatalities in the United States. In a side by side comparison, firearms rank among the lowest causes of accidental injury.
Firearms-related fatalities in the U.S. have been decreasing consistently since record keeping began in 1903 and dramatically in the last 20 years to a century-long low. In the last twenty years (1993 - 2013), the number of unintentional firearm-related fatalities involving children 14 years of age and under has decreased by 66 percent. Unintentional firearms-related fatalities are substantially lower than the number of unintentional fatalities caused by most other forms of injury. Firearms are involved in 1.7 percent of unintentional fatalities among children 14 years of age and under and are among the least likely causes of unintentional fatality. [Read the entire article]
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SF Sheriff Highlights 'Only Ones' Hypocrisy
A peace officer chastising a security guard for harassing citizens on Independence Day stands in stark contrast to those in law enforcement who instead put their personal interests over their Constitutional obligations and abuse their positions of power. The latter, a group I've labeled "Only Ones," are exemplified by San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, an anti-gun enforcer who recently had his own criminal record expunged.
Mirkarimi is also attempting to expunge his complicity in releasing illegal alien Francisco Lopez-Sanchez from custody despite his criminal record and serial reentry history. Sanchez allegedly ignored citizen disarmament edicts the sheriff supports and killed a woman with a gun stolen from an as-yet unidentified Bureau of Land Management ranger's car. For his part, Mirkarimi has taken to social and other media to point his finger at Immigration and Customs Enforcement for not complying with San Francisco's "sanctuary city" policies, conveniently ignoring that months earlier he bragged about having "the honor to say that I'm the first Sheriff in the United States to say no to ICE." [Read the entire article]
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AURORA SPORTSMEN'S CLUB
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Unless noted, all classes meet at the SAFER USA facility
190 W. Lincoln St; Waterman, IL 60556. Call 815-744-5487 for further information.
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Illinois Concealed Carry I (16 hours)
July 25 - 26 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
BASIC COURSES
NRA Basic Rifle Shooting (14-Hours)
Aug 15: 9:00AM-5:00PM & Aug 16: 9:00AM-3:00PM
INSTRUCTOR - PISTOL SEQUENCE
NRA Basic Instructor Training (6 Hours)
Sep 5: 8:00AM - 2:00PM
NRA Instructor Pistol (11 Hours)
Sep 5: 2:00-6:00PM; Sep 6: 9:00AM-4:00PM
CONCEALED CARRY COURSES
Illinois Concealed Carry I (16 Hours)
Aug 8-9: 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Aug 22-23: 9:00AM - 5:00PM
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Aug 15: 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Sept 5: 9:00AM - 5:00PM
TACTICAL COURSES
Know AR Platform Rifle I[classroom](4 Hours)
Aug 9: 8:00AM - 12:00AM
Know Your Platform Rifle II [Range] (4 Hours)
Aug 9: 1:00PM - 5:00PM
Tactical Rifle I (4 Hours)
Aug 22: 8:00AM - 12:00AM
Tactical Rifle II (4 Hours)
Aug 22: 1:00PM - 5:00PM
Tactical Pistol I (4 Hours)
Aug 29: 8:00AM - 12:00AM
Tactical Pistol II (4 Hours)
Aug 29: 1:00PM - 5:00PM
Long Range Rifle (6 Hours)
Aug 29: 9:00AM - 3:00PM
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Ammunition Background Checks
Suspended in N.Y.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is being forced to bite the bullet, and we're not talking metaphorically. Cuomo's 2013 SAFE Act's mandate for a background check with every ammunition purchase turned out to be a dud. As a result, Cuomo's Director of State Operations, James Malatras, has signed a memorandum of understanding with State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan to undo certain aspects of the New York SAFE Act gun control law. The MOU specifies that no state money may be used to develop and run the database, thereby also killing the ban on Internet ammo sales. According to a spokesman for the New York State Police, the state does not have the technology required to develop and operate the database. Considering the SAFE Act was a legislative centerpiece for Cuomo, it's not surprising that his name does not appear anywhere in the MOU and the public announcement of its failure was quietly announced late Friday afternoon by two upstate State Senate Republicans - State Senators Catharine Young and William Seward. |
U.S. High Schools Embrace
Shooting as Hot New Sport
Can you name the world's biggest shooting-sport event? The answer is all the more intriguing in that it was recently written up in Bloomberg Business. In 2009, the Minnesota State High School Clay Target League championship's first year, the contest drew 30 shooters. Last month the championship drew 5,134 shooters and over 20,000 spectators and sponsors including Benelli and SKB Shotguns. Trap shooting is the fastest-growing sport in Minnesota high schools and was recently introduced in neighboring Wisconsin and North Dakota.
"This is the best thing to happen to the shooting sports in 50 years," said Dennis Knudson, a 74-year-old lifelong trap shooter, after watching his grandson compete. "It's so fun to see the youngsters stepping up. It will preserve the sport, and they'll do it for the rest of their lives."
While it may make anti-gun activists uneasy, it's a boon for manufacturers and retailers that have stoked its growth. The National Shooting Sports Foundation estimates the average 16-year-old competitor will spend $75,000 over his or her lifetime. For the National Rifle Association youngsters represent an important new constituency. "These kids are going to be future legislators, and they're going to get in there and know the truth about weapons," said Dennis Taylor, an NRA member and an operations manager at the Wisconsin Trapshooting Association. [Read the entire article]
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