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.

Nifty: Bullet-resistant armor for your iPAD.

[caption id="attachment_3544" align="alignnone" width="600"] It might look as though this was a failure, but in reality, the cover stopped both 9mm and .357 Mag slugs.Photos by engadget.com.[/caption]   Okay, it's technically "for" your iPAD in the sense that it's incorporated into the iPADs cover. The armor is for you, not…

Bedwetter at the Boston Globe

[caption id="attachment_3527" align="alignnone" width="553"] A young bedwetter.[/caption] Among the letters to the editor at the Boston Globe is a gem by a Boston resident Paul Duffy.  (Hat tip to Shall Not Be Questioned). He laments that "gun control" isn't discussed more following the acts of deranged kooks. He concludes with,…

GSL website straining under the load…

[caption id="attachment_3522" align="alignnone" width="640"] We're exhausted![/caption] Ladies & Gents, please bear with us as our server is working those little gerbils too hard as it's lumbering under the incredible load of visitors reading our site. We're migrating to a bigger, badder server with 300 stronger, elite warrior gerbils raised in…

Meet the Anti-gun Mayors, Mr. and Mrs. America!

We've called them the kiddie porn mayors in the past, but that's not really fair to the ones who steal money destined for the destitute or extort money for their own enrichment. Thanks to John Richardson at No Lawyers - Only Guns and Money, and the Second Amendment Foundation, these…

A Poster Child for Psychological Projection

[caption id="attachment_3510" align="alignnone" width="560"] Linda Martin Alcoff blathers on.Photo by Siena.edu.[/caption] Are right-wing gun owners aching to start a race war? The Daily Caller brings us a story today about a Ivory Tower leftist philosophy professor at the City University of New York who has warned her fellow leftists that…

Babineaux method = foolish B.M.

 by John Boch When it comes to firearms, there are no 10 Commandments. There are the basic safety rules, which are all pretty much the same wherever you shoot and train and they have been developed as part of studying things that can go wrong with gun handling. Here are…