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.

Teacher’s union: Denial of reality.

[caption id="attachment_4071" align="alignnone" width="475"] Randi Weingarten.[/caption] I thought teachers were supposed to be intelligent. Maybe it's the air at union headquarters. Anyway, the AFT has proclaimed that there should be absolutely NO guns in schools. (Breitbart) - The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has their own solution for preventing tragedies…

News run-down… IL politics and more!

Folks, don't let the mainstream media beat you down with their incessant drumbeat to further their far left-wing, freedom-hating agenda. If they weren't relying on hysteria to further their failed cause, they wouldn't be "rushing" all of these proposals at us and trying to push them through overnight.   So,…

The Christmas Rifle

by Rian B. Anderson Pa never had much compassion for the lazy or for those who squandered their means and then never had enough for the necessities. But for those who were genuinely in need, his heart was as big as all outdoors. It was from him that I learned…

Good guys with guns deter evil

by John Boch Why is it craven individuals dance in the blood of victims each time there is a horrific crime committed? It's not a liberal vs. conservative issue.  It's about decency. There's nothing decent in using the blood of small children to advance one's cause.  In fact, it's repugnant.…

The Heroine of Sandy Hook

(New York Daily News) - She took a bullet for her kids. Teacher Victoria Soto used her body to shield her students from the maniacal gunman who launched a massacre at a Connecticut school, relatives said Saturday. Soto paid for her bravery with her life. But in doing so, the…

Oathkeepers nail it: Fed gov is complicit.

Oathkeepers had this to say about the massacre in Connecticut.  Simply superlative. This shooting is yet another tragic example of the failed, grotesque insistence on helpless victim zones where any crazed gunman can be assured of a large number of disarmed, undefended, helpless victims, all crammed into one place, where…