By Gerard Valentino

Noted gun grabber and first rate hypocrite Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago was vacationing at his family's cottage in Michigan recently when one of his armed body guards caught an escaped murderer who was walking nearby. Daily, who accepts armed guards for himself while denying Chicagoans the right to carry a gun for self-defense, was relatively quiet about the incident.

Maybe, for once, he realized the hypocrisy in his policy to deny millions of Chicagoans the right to use a gun for self-defense while he cavorts about with heavily armed guards. Had Daley been the average Illinoisan vacationing in Michigan, instead of the escaped murderer being confronted with a gun, the thug would have been free to attack the family without fear.

By Jim Shepherd

The National Shooting Sports Foundation has announced a new initiative with the ambitious goal of growing shooting sports at the collegiate level. Not just growing the sports, but growing them twenty percent over the next five years.

The NSSF's Collegiate Shooting Sports Initiative (CSSI) will "provide both financial and non-financial assistance in creating new college shooting teams and clubs and strengthening existing programs." The NSSF's Zach Snow will be heading up the initiative. "Youth shooting programs are very popular nationwide with students grades 12 and under," he says, "as these students go off to college, many would jump at the opportunity to get involved or continue their participation in the shooting sports."

According to the NSSF, that growth isn't just targeted at graduates of the highly successful Scholastic Clay Target Program, but will expand to include rifle, and pistol competition in addition to shotguns. If that's the case, it may be that the newest scholastic competition, Scholastic Steel, may also serve as a feeder for students who want to continue their handgun shooting competition into their college experience.