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.

Special Delivery for the Governor: FPC delivers petitions to Moonbeam Jerry

    [caption id="attachment_9682" align="alignnone" width="600"] PHOTO: Brandon Combs, managing director of the Firearms Policy Coalition, left, and Craig DeLuz, legislative advocate for California Association of Federal Firearms Licensees, deliver about 65,000 petitions urging the governor's veto of 14 gun bills. Credit: The Sacramento Bee/Christopher Cadelago.[/caption]   We don't see…

Cougar attack in East Central Illinois

  From Facebook: Cougar attacked a horse on 1488 & Kickapoo Rd., which is near where I live. Friends and neighbors in our area, please beware.... This cat has been spotted on my neighbor's property and is responsible for the death of at least one of their rheas. The horse…

Meet the new face of gun ownership ;-)

Is gun ownership stagnating? Anti-gun folks and the big, mainstream media would have you believe that a shrinking pool gun owners are buying all these guns and ammunition of late. Yeah. Just like they would have you believe Barack Obama supports your right to own a gun. (Sarcasm off). Well,…

News roundup! School apologizes about NRA shirt, more…

Remember Haley from yesterday? Well, it looks like the school administrators heard from lawyers, who probably briefed them on some of the settlements and judgements received by students in other school districts throughout America who were forced to remove their NRA t-shirts.   ANAHEIM HILLS (CBSLA.com) — A high school…