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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.
Guns Save Life has remarkable speakers each month. This was our speaker in October 2011’s meeting. Guns Save Life meets the second Tuesday of each month at the Knights of Columbus in Rantoul. (See calendar to the right for more information) Main Speaker #1 Justin Bawcum May 1, 2009 was a day that...
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By John Naese If you’re a shooter or a gun owner, you should belong to several gun organizations. Why several? Because each serves its own purpose, and you have a different role to play in each. You can gain different benefits from membership in each one of the following three. First, if you are...
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In a recent article, we noted that the Illinois Democratic Party has declared a jihad on America’s favorite rifle, the AR-15, and the background-checked and registered firearm owners who own them here in Illinois in a series of mailings in various legislative districts throughout Illinois. News comes that they’ve opened a new front...
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by John Boch My wife, God bless her, her alarm clock set to the local PBS station, so I treated to Nazi Party Radio drivel about as often as I hear classical music first thing in the morning. On one particular morning, an Iraqi war veteran was lamenting his anxiety at...
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David exposes Goliath By John Boch When I was in school, I was taught that newspaper reporters and editors were wise and learned individuals to be respected. They were experts at the use of the English language and generally unbiased and unemotional in their reporting of the news. Today, thanks to the “new”...
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Dear John, I’m so sorry for your loss, personally, as well as the loss to the GSL community. Please accept my condolences, and rest assured that Paul will be in our prayers this evening. Paul is how I met you guys as I was finishing up grad school back at U of I in...
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The Witchita Eagle has a splendid story about a gentleman with a carry permit who used his safety rescue tool to dissuade a young thug from completing an armed robbery in front of the good guy’s business. The good guy in the story, Steve Yager, exhibited good situational awareness, noting a young...
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Days of our Trailers has a withering attack on the civil-rights hating Democratic hack Marty Moylan. He’s going to try and ban ’50 cal machine guns’ in Illinois. Wait. They’re already banned in this state. What is he talking about then? Oh right. He’s talking about semi-auto firearms like the AR-15, not ‘machine guns’....
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by John Naese Paul Vallandigham was an officer and director of Guns Save Life, but he was more than that – he was one of the original founding members. The first meeting of what eventually became Guns Save Life was in the basement of a restaurant in Rantoul in 1995. Paul, I, and five...
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by John Boch It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Paul H. Vallandigham, a long-time gun rights giant in Illinois. Mr. Vallandigham was a life member of the NRA, a former director of the Illinois State Rifle Association, as well as a founding member of Guns Save Life’s predecessor organization...
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