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.

Buckeye Firearms Association under cyber attack

Like our brothers and sisters at Buckeye Firearms, we find it more than "coincidental" that they have found themselves under cyber attack after announcing their plan to buy George Zimmerman a replacement gun. Here's the email they sent out not long ago: BFA is under attack from an unknown outside…

Welcome to Chicago: Magnificent Mile now the Muggers’ Mile

[caption id="attachment_8487" align="alignnone" width="480"] The Guardian Angels in Toledo, OH.[/caption] The irony is rich. The Guardian Angels are now patrolling Chicago's Magnificent Mile. The Guardian Angels. The people who got their start patrolling the violence-laden New York City Subways in the 1970s.  The people who patrol low-income, high-crime neighborhoods in…

Bloomberg’s MAIG members leaving in droves

We're really sad to hear this news. And did they mention that mayor in California that has the sex problem with his city's staffers?  Yeah, San Diego Mayor Filner...   (Buzzfeed) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun control group Mayors Against Illegal Guns is finding it hard to keep…

Stand your ground: Who benefits most? The answer might surprise you.

[caption id="attachment_8457" align="alignnone" width="490"] Marissa Alexander.[/caption]   (Daily Caller) - African Americans benefit from Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law at a rate far out of proportion to their presence in the state’s population, despite an assertion by Attorney General Eric Holder that repealing “Stand Your Ground” would help African…