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.

FRESH: Chicago’s suicides goin’ up by two

Chicago's statistical wizards like to count people who decapitate themselves with an electric chainsaw as "suicides" to help keep the ghastly homicide numbers at merely a twenty-year high. Our friends in the Second City sent us this photograph minutes ago from the 3500 block of West Chicago.  Barely an hour…

FLORIDA PUTS ARMED OFFENDERS IN PRISON. ILLINOIS? NOT SO MUCH: One-man crime spree in Springfield out after 1-year of 8-year sentence

[caption id="attachment_20716" align="alignnone" width="476"] Reginald Deshazo[/caption]   Meet Reginald Deshazo.  He's the lucky beneficiary of Illinois "Dog Years In Reverse" prison sentencing system. He's not wasted any time before returning to is previous occupation.  In fact, he's been a busy boy since getting released after serving just over 1-year in…

CONSTITUTIONAL CARRY #10: MISSISSIPPI

Michael Bloomberg has spent $50M a year on gun control and what has he gotten to show for it? Not even a stinkin' t-shirt. But millions of Americans now enjoy Constitutional Carry since he started squandering millions of denying Americans their Constitutionally-protected, God-given rights. And those single moms demanding some…