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.

Things heating up in Springfield…

  Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is taking another run at "may issue" carry today.  He's got himself another shell bill that's been converted into a "may issue" bill sponsored by a rabid gun grabber Rep. Kelly Cassidy. ISRA is urging folks to contact their Representatives and remind them it…

JOHN NAESE: The Best Revenge

by John Naese I’ll bet there is at least a twinge of depression in all of you right now.  Maybe more than a twinge.  At Guns Save Life, we like to look on the bright side, but it’s hard to do that all the time.  Everywhere you look, more idiots…

Senate gun “compromise” in peril

[caption id="attachment_7059" align="alignnone" width="605"] Being sworn in, from left: Kelly; David Kopel, law professor at Strum College in Denver; Baltimore Police Chief James Johnson, chair of the National Law Enforcement Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence; Gayle Trotter, senior fellow with the Independent Women's Forum; and LaPierre. AP Photo. Politico/AP Caption.[/caption]…

ILEAD rally: Major league FAIL

    [caption id="attachment_7041" align="alignnone" width="600"] Check out the meager turnout at the HUGELY unsuccessful I-LEAD rally in Springfield. Scores of people were bused in for the allegedly mighty rally against civil rights.[/caption]     [caption id="attachment_7042" align="alignnone" width="600"] Contrast the above I-LEAD group photo with this shot of Illinois…