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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.
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DOES HE? Does Yael T. Abouhalkah want to be today’s Bull Connor against gun rights?

Sep 14, 2015 jboch

  [caption id="attachment_18215" align="alignnone" width="640"] One of the (best) submissions to the Truth About Guns' counter-"Whatever It Takes" project.[/caption]   Pity the poor Kansas City Star and its editorial columnist Yael T. Abouhalkah. [caption id="attachment_18216" align="alignnone" width="400"] Yael T. Abouhalkah[/caption] Fresh out of facts, science or logic to attack gun…

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(ARMED) MOMS LIKE HER: Freedom’s safest place

Sep 12, 2015 jboch

The NRA met the Bloomberg-funded Moms Demand Action "Day of Action" with their own message, delivered by Dana Loesch. It's powerful.  And the comments at the Gateway Pundit are the icing on the cake.  I've appended a few at the end of this post. Enjoy. And a Merry Christmas Video.…

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ROLE-PLAYERS ACQUIRED. Thank you!

Sep 11, 2015 jboch

What are you doing this weekend? Do you want to have some fun learning about personal safety and how not to be a victim, and get a free lunch too? We're looking for a another six role-players for this weekend's GSL Defense Training Critical Threat Management class. Positions have been…

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THANKING GOD SUCH MEN LIVED: Rocky Schoenrock

Sep 9, 2015 jboch

[caption id="attachment_18137" align="alignnone" width="650"] Rocky Schoenrock at his desk at the State-Journal Register. He worked as an artist, among other jobs, and painted beautiful churches in Central Illinois that graced the Christmas Morning front page of the State-Journal Register for about twenty consecutive years. SJ-R phot.[/caption] by John Boch General…