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.

Donald Trump is an A-hole.

No Lawyers - Only Guns and Money posted (reposted?) a rant from a Florida gun shop owner that is spot on (hat tip to The Gun Free Zone):   Donald Trump is an Asshole Donald Trump is an asshole. Thankfully, that doesn't matter in a president. We've all had bosses…

Trump is right: Chicago crime is out of control.

Donald Trump was right when he wrote that Chicago crime is out of control. Just yesterday, NBC Chicago reported on one man attacking three policemen at the scene of a traffic accident. Three Chicago police officers were injured, one seriously, in an incident on Chicago's West Side Wednesday morning, according…

Bass Pro Shops gobbling up Cabela’s

Bass Pro, one of the nations largest outdoors retailer, will buy Cabela's for $5.5 billion. That's a lot of fishing poles and camping supplies.  And Under Armour clothes. USA Today has the story: Bass Pro Shops has reached a deal to acquire outdoors retail competitor Cabela's and take the company private in a…

Lawful Self-Defense as a motorist during a riotous attack

Those of us who have been around a while have the graphic 1992 attack of Reginald Denny burned into our psyche. In recent days, we've been treated to footage from Charlotte, North Carolina, scenes of violent troublemakers blockading traffic, then looting tractor-trailers and attacking motorists based upon the skin color…

Feds snooping at gun shows…

Leave it to the Obama administration to prod local police to cruise gun show parking lots with license plate scanners. Again. It's nothing new to us. The plan, originally conceived by bureaucrats at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (and really big fires) back in 2010 is again in…

Tammy Duckworth wants your guns

We are in quite a quandry here in Illinois when it comes to the US Senate race. As bad as Mark Kirk is on guns, Tammy Duckworth will be worse. Duckworth, the anti-gun Democrat who loves to capitalize on American's support for our veterans by incessantly reminding everyone about her…