jboch

http://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.

GunNews is up!

  The January 2014 issue of GunNews is up on the website and available for download. Use the membership form on the back page to get a copy delivered to your mailbox each month, a week or so sooner than we typically post it up on the website. Thanks!

Year in Review – both for GSL and ISRA

Good Thursday morning! We didn't do a year in review here at Guns Save Life. Maybe we should have as we've had plenty of huge victories. Okay, you twisted my arm.  This was originally just going to be a reprint of ISRA's Executive Director Rich Pearson's "Year in review", but…

SHAMEFUL: Tribalism in America today

Glenn Reynolds nails it in a USA Today piece about the rise of tribalism seems to best describe what's happening in America today.   ...Tribalism is the default state of humanity: The tendency to defend our own tribe even when we think it's wrong, and to attack other tribes even…

Better news roundup

  The best, first: I flew on a plane without going through security. It was amazing and no one died. AKA:  Abolish the TSA. By Dylan Matthews December 30 at 12:49 pm (Washington Post) - On Friday morning, I flew on an airplane, and it was amazing. And there's no…

Tab clearing: The bad, the worse and the ugly

Making the law-abiding into criminals: ALBANY, NY (Buffalo News) -– Nearly a year after passage of the state’s new gun law, dealer sales of popular AR-15 semiautomatic rifles have ended in New York, and arrest data shows that more than 1,000 gun-possession charges in New York City were boosted from…