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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.
At a recent Guns Save Life meeting in Pontiac, a retired Illinois State Trooper talked about a couple of home invasion cases with very different outcomes right here in the Land of Lincoln. He shared publicly-available information, offering important lessons gun owners can take from the facts of the cases. First, he talked about...
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With the “leak” of the supposed draft of the SCOTUS decision that would strike down Roe v. Wade, the radical left in America are calling for “mostly peaceful” protests this Sunday – Mother’s Day – at churches across America. From FoxNews: Pro-abortion activists are targeting Catholic churches for protests on Mother’s Day, with some...
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While most gun owners don’t take a great deal of interest in politics, plenty of politicians take more than a passing interest in them. So with just a few days’ notice, nearly two hundred people showed up at a gun rights political rally held in Quincy, Illinois on Saturday. There they heard Colorado’s rock...
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Lauren Boebert, the firebrand pro-gun business owner famous for her Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado defeated a five-term Republican Congressman in the 2020 primary election. Prior to that, Boebert and the restaurant gained fame for the waitresses there packing heat, openly. Later, Boebert won the general election, becoming Congresswoman Lauren Boebert. Boebert has served...
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Some people are just nuts. Others, with a heaping helping of evil and hate, drift from nuts to homicidal. In this case, Adam Cobb, the man seen in this above bodycam still, went off the deep end and attacked his girlfriend who wanted to break up with him. He shot and killed Jamie Joiner,...
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The Illinois State Rifle Association hosted the annual Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day event on Wednesday, April 6th. Turnout was thin, but full of determination and dedication to the cause. In short, we’re tired of Illinois political leadership turning violent criminals out of jails and prisons to re-offend, then blaming guns and gun owners...
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Democrats in the Illinois General Assembly passed a bill in the middle of the night last night that bans dreaded “ghost guns.” But the bill’s wording would do much more than outlaw home built firearms. Perhaps of even greater concern to Illinois residents and visitors to the Land o’ Lincoln is that the bill’s...
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State Senator Darren Bailey, currently the commanding leader of the pack for the Republican nomination for Illinois Governor, made an appearance at the Guns Save Life Sangamon County meeting last night. The meeting, held at SCHEELS in Springfield, drew a packed crowd approaching 135 in attendance. Darren Bailey dazzled folks. We’ve known Darren Bailey...
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The Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day is scheduled for Wednesday, April 6th. While organized groups cannot enter the capitol complex, we were told last night that if you tell security you’re there to see Darren Bailey or to visit his office, COVID tests aren’t required and they will admit you. However, you will be...
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Chicago’s cesspool of violence continues to grow. Sadly, even the innocent serve as backstops for bad guy shots on a regular basis in America’s largest open-air shooting gallery. Among the latest victims, Bobbye Johnson, a grandmother shot by an armed robber security guard’s errant rounds fired four blocks away – at a suspect a...
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