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.

A special kind of stupid… all over. (Graphic warning)

In Chicago: (Breitbart) - No matter how Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Superintendant Garry McCarthy spin it by touting overall crime being down in the city, the numbers for 2013 are still horrifying. The website HeyJackass.com, which keeps some pretty interesting data regarding Chicago crime statistics, reports that the…

The Last Twenty-four Notes

[caption id="attachment_9113" align="alignnone" width="640"] A bugler from the 3rd U.S. Marine Aircraft Wing Band plays "Taps" at the Ronald Reagan Memorial site after a Feb. 6, 2009, ceremony honoring the anniversary of Reagan?s birth at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, Calif. (U.S. Navy photo by…

IOWA: Anti-gunners oppose self-defense choice for diabled

Anti-gunners are wringing their hands about those with visual disabilities getting carry permits in Iowa. Any excuse they can imagine, right? This "story" made the mainstream media.  Could you imagine many other topics they would treat the same?  Can you imagine these same people who are worried about so-called blind…

Desperate mainstream media proposed re-write of 2nd Amendment

The poor mainstream media are reaching for more and more outlandish stunts to get attention in their increasing desperation to gain online visitors to their websites and the occasional readers of their dead-tree, old-school print versions. Doubly so for the old-school print magazines. The latest prime example? The Philadelphia Enquirer's…