jboch

https://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.

Last hero of WWII Battle of the Bulge NEEDS HELP

This comes to us from French MacLean, a retired Army Colonel whose father served alongside this man.  To make a long story short, Jay Lavin (shortened from Lavinsky after the war), a decorated World War II veteran and perhaps the last remaining survivor of the Battle of the Bulge needs…

SELF-DEFENSE: Can YOU Articulate?

Self-defense is legal everywhere in America. Even in Chicago. Even if you’re black, Latino, gay, transgendered, Muslim or maybe all of the above. But no matter where it happens, the color of your skin, who you worship or who you sleep with, the legal aftermath of using force in self-defense…

LETTER TO EDITOR: Kudos to GSL

I was born and raised in Springfield, IL. I hunted, fished & trapped all over Illinois. I held an FOID card for many years and served in the US Army for over 20 years. I retired from the Army out of Iraq in 2004. Whether I was living in Colorado…

Dear Hipsters, Millennials and Pansies

by Todd Vandermyde(originally published in 2016) Dear Hillary Hipsters, Miley Millennials and Participation Trophy Pansies, you got me thinking with your talk of playing games with the electoral college and this talk of “armed” rebellion. You expect us to take your talk of rebellion and revolution seriously? Yet you can’t…

FORCED ENTRY: What would you do? [VIDEO]

So some guy starts beating on your front door demanding you open it.  He's loud, obnoxious and pretty insistent that you're going to open that door.  Sixteen seconds after you first hear the beating on the door, he kicks open your front door and strolls on inside, still yelling profanity…