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.

Election 2022: Gun Rights Take Beating in State of IL

Illinois voters have chosen to double down on "more of the same" state government if results as of 11pm are any indicator. JB Pritzker coasted to re-election by something like 13 points.  It wasn't even close.  We love Darren Bailey, but his campaign didn't resonate with everyday Illinoisans in Chicago…

YOU CAN BECOME A GUN OWNER!

For a long time, a lot of people in Chicago grew into adulthood thinking that only cops and criminals had guns. After all, we all see police with their openly-worn sidearms on a regular basis and we constantly hear from the media about the criminal misuse of firearms in news…

Counter-Carjacking: Brian Smith in Chicagoland

[caption id="attachment_32473" align="alignnone" width="770"] Instructor Brian Smith coaches folks on how to resist a carjacker trying to pull you out of the car.[/caption] Not long ago, Guns Save Life welcomed one of the best firearm instructors in the nation at our GSL meeting. During his visit, Brian Smith talked about…

IT HAPPENED TO ME: Crime hits formerly ‘nice’ part of Chicago… resident feels MUCH better with a GLOCK in his hand instead of a phone until cops arrive

GSL’s new Vice-President John Coyne forwarded us this story from an Illinois Gun Owners Together member who experienced yet another “active shooter” on the streets outside his condo in his Jefferson Park neighborhood. This time though, he had a Glock in his hand. It happened in a solidly middle-class neighborhood…

G-PAC OUTING DEM CANDIDATES FOR IL SUPREME COURT? First Rule of Judicial Campaigning… ‘Shall NOT make pledges, promises or commitments… with respect to cases…likely to come before the court’

The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The first rule of campaigning for judicial posts in Illinois is that you "shall not: make pledges, promises, or commitments that are inconsistent with the impartial performance of the adjudicative duties of judicial office with respect to…