jboch

http://www.gunssavelife.com/?page_id=68 CCRA/GSL member for 15 years and VP for almost as long. Lead instructor for GSL Defense Training with nearly 15-years experience as a handgun instructor and more recently rifle instructor as well, teaching hundreds of people (kids and adults like) basic firearm safety and handling skills. Editor emeritus of GunNews. Grew up in Hillsboro, IL. University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign Alumni. Works as an office manager during the day, publication editor at night and firearms instructor on the weekends. Firearm training junkie. Graduate of shooting schools taught by nationally-known instructors Massad Ayoob (Lethal Force Institute, 299/300 qualification score), John Farnam (Defense Training International), Pat Rogers (EAG Tactical), “Sully” Sullivan (Defensive Edge), John Krupa (Spartan Tactical Training Group, class top individual combined skills shooter), Frank Sharp (Fortress Defense), Steve Tarani and classes from numerous other regional and local instructors on firearms and defense topics as diverse as exhibition shooting (shooting trap with a rifle among other fun stuff), defensive knife, speed skills and first aid. United States Rifle Association Certified Instructor, Appleseed Intructor (in training), NRA Certified Rifle, Pistol and Personal Protection in the Home instructor. Teaches primarily with GSL Defense Training, but does 100% volunteer work for USRA, RWVA and the longest-running NRA Youth Shooting Camp in the USA, recently promoted to running the pistol line there. Married to guns and firearms training, and enjoys photography, flashlights, amateur radio as hobbies. Shares the home with three furry ferrets and a delightful woman who could do better than John. Terribly unlucky, John has tragically lost most of his guns and ammo in a series of boating accidents.

Second Amendment Foundation calls out Dudley Brown

  Dudley Brown’s Despicable Deception 15 May 2014 | News & Releases (Second Amendment Foundation) - Dudley Brown and his “National Association for Gun Rights” (NAGR) have built a reputation by attacking every other major gun rights organization and even pro-gun politicians, to the detriment of the gun rights movement.…

Illinois 50,000 CCW licenses, by county

Courtesy our friends at the Illinois State Rifle Association. [caption id="attachment_12278" align="alignnone" width="750"] Illinois State Police Col. Marc Maton holds up a sample of a concealed carry license at a news conference in Chicago on Feb. 28. (Photo / Caption Sun-Times Media, Rich Hein)[/caption] TOTAL PAID CCL APPLICATIONS  72,447 TOTAL…

NUGENT: Windy City’s slaughter season

Is it the availability of guns that's the problem in Chicago? Nope. During the weekend the NRA convention was in Indianapolis, 75,000 NRA members turned out, many if not most of them armed.  The Indianapolis Metro Police said it was the quietest weekend for crime in downtown Indy in the…