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.

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…

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR REPORT: RESULTS… Life is great!

by John BochGSL Executive DirectorLadies and gentlemen, life is good. In fact, life is great. Our side is using the Bruen Supreme Court decision as a wrecking ball against gun control measures across the nation. Gun restrictions new and old have fallen to challenges everywhere from California to Texas to…

Bruen is our cause’s Roe v. Wade

Regardless of your position in the abortion debate, you have to recognize the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade on American life for decades. Hundreds if not thousands of laws regulating or banning abortion all met the buzz saw of courts citing the Roe v.…