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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.
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He didn’t use a gun, but he’s still a hero

Jul 15, 2013 jboch

[caption id="attachment_8382" align="alignnone" width="635"] Temar Boggs, 15, was one of the teenagers in Lancaster Township, Pa., who helped save Jocelyn Rojas after she was kidnapped in front of her grandmother's house. Caption and photo from NY Daily News.[/caption]   This young man has more bravery and courage than most adults.…

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BOCH: A Jury of Your Peers

Jul 14, 2013 jboch

by John Boch (Guns Save Life.com) If any doubt exists, hold your gun silent. Act to the standard to which you will be judged. Those are the words we teach each and every student in our firearms training classes when it comes to the use of deadly force to protect…

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Reasoned discourse?

Jul 12, 2013 jboch

  This is what passes for reasoned discourse over at the lightly-trafficked National Gun Victims Action Council. This "week" they profiled Brandon Phelps.  Why? Because it was his name at the top of the bill that felled Illinois as the last beach-head of gun control in the nation when it…