jboch

There is stupid and there is really stupid.  And there's Orwellian speak. Recall how Florida State University had a racist lunatic attempt to carry out a spree killing targeting whites there last fall, wounding three people in the university's library before he was shot down like a rabid dog by…

Ladies and gents:  We need you to join your fellow gun owners on a little mission this Friday morning.  Robin Kelly, the Congressman that Michael Bloomberg bought into office, will be hosting a community meeting to introduce her brand of gun control in Bradley, IL. No doubt the mainstream media…

  Come on out and join your fellow gun owners and firearm enthusiasts at Guns Save Life meetings this week! Pontiac's regional coordinator John Gahm will be hosting the Pontiac meeting at the Pontiac VFW on Tuesday evening.  The guest speaker is Jeff Shuck on overcoming adversity.  You don't want…

Pity poor Shannon Watts, aka Shannon Troughton, President and owner of of VoxPop Public Relations, a boutique liberal PR firm. She's trying really hard to manipulate public opinion with sleight of hand, but it's not going so well for her. She put up this Twitter post yesterday, to justify what…

Welcome to Chicago, also known as Murder City, USA. The powers that be love to massage the numbers, but here's the bottom line:  Despite the brutally cold weather in January this year, Chicago's criminal class racked up an average of a murder a day and overall criminal violence was up…

The LA County Sheriff's Office has released an excellent video entitled:  "SURVIVING AN ACTIVE SHOOTER". For the average person, it provides an excellent primer to surviving a spree killing event.  Yes, spree killings are rare, but that doesn't mean they should be ignored as a potential threat.  Lightning strikes are…

  by John Boch I’ve been an instructor for sixteen years now and I still remember the very first class I taught in Springfield, IL along with John Naese and a third brand-new instructor.  It was exciting, but not so much in a good way. A lot has changed in…

The National Shooting Sports Foundation released some great news.  Not only did the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation acknowledge wrongdoing with regards to discouraging banks from doing business with gun shops, but that the FDIC was going to cease the arbitrary and unconstitutional actions against law-abiding merchants. Operation Choke Point was…

  Rich Miller over at Capitol Fax was disturbed enough by a pair of armed robberies at pet stores in Springfield, IL to post about it at his heavily trafficked blog.  He wrote that he and his dog visit those locations regularly and he was rattled. The first incident was…

More and more reports are coming out about certain law enforcement agencies' misuse of automated license plate readers. These reports have hit the mainstream media, including stories about these unlawful practices in the Wall Street Journal (articles hidden behind pay-walls so we won't link to them and drive traffic their…