Who is Guns Save Life? We are a gun rights advocacy group, founded in roughly twenty years ago. We’ve grown rather dramatically since that first meeting of about a half-dozen people in a fast food restaurant. In fact, that’s our mission statement: We defend your right to defend yourself. We meet each month in six cities in Illinois: Champaign, Pontiac, Peoria, Springfield, Charleston, and Chicago. Yeah, Guns Save Life plays in Peoria, otherwise known as middle America.