jboch

https://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.

Regime announces yet more anti-gun decrees

The Obama regime waited until Friday afternoon to announce their latest extra-legal edict  to allow (read: force) states to provide mental health information to the national background check system in violation of the  Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's privacy provisions. It marks yet another instance where this regime has…

Wounded Warrior Project responds to Guns Save Life

In the interests of fairness, I'd like to give the Wounded Warrior Project prime real estate here as a rebuttal to our most recent story about Wounded Warrior Project's efficiency (or lack thereof) in delivering donations directly to our nation's wounded servicemen and women. In our story, "Wounded Warriors Projected…

Detroit’s police chief has gun bigots fuming

[caption id="attachment_10414" align="alignnone" width="640"] Detroit Police Chief James Craig.[/caption] Detroit's new top cop James Craig has got the gun bigots up in arms over his public comments lauding concealed carry license holders and crediting them, in part, with Detroits modest drop in violent crime last year. On a radio show,…

BOCH: Body language: Use it to your advantage

  By John Boch A person’s body language communicates messages in everything they do.  Some messages are subtle, while others are so obvious that even the clueless can pick them up. Body language can suggest that a person is tired, upset, distracted confused or intoxicated.  They can announce self-confidence and…

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…