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.

The socialist onslaught against America

President's Column by Jim Butler, President Sangamon County Rifle Association We see the rights and freedoms our Founders fought and died for may soon be replaced by the chains of permanent bondage as the agenda of Barack Hussein Obama is being exposed more each day.  Mr. Obama’s deeds and policies…

Chicago safe? Not with these predators roaming streets

CBS Chicago published a scary report titled, 'Killing Is The Solution,’ Gang Member Tells Walter Jacobson with long-time reporter Walter Jacobson interviewing some Chicago gang members.  Their reporter asked some hard questions and received some even more shocking answers. The reporter asked the "bangers", as he described them, what they wanted…

Keep Otis McDonald in your prayers.

[caption id="attachment_2345" align="alignnone" width="400"] Photo courtesy Huey's Gunsight.[/caption] Keep Mr. McDonald in your prayers.  He and Dick Heller are two Americans who whose civil rights cases will be talked about for decades, if not centuries to come. Both are great men.   From No Lawyers - Only Guns and Money…

Combat vet files suit in bizarre open carry arrest

[caption id="attachment_2330" align="alignnone" width="468"] Screen capture from the YouTube video posted by Capt. Robert Pierson, a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter pilot.[/caption]   Things are heating up for a Wyoming sheriff's deputy to made a bizarre offer to a Marine Corps veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan.  Capt. Robert Pierson…

Keep yourself safe, IDF-style

[caption id="attachment_2325" align="alignnone" width="784"] Sgt. Rachel Shir of the IDF.Screencap from How to Defend Yourself - IDF Style.[/caption] We found this over at the Blaze and thought it worth sharing. The Israeli Defense Forces YouTube channel has a couple of videos featuring Sgt. Rachel Shir, a 20-year-old Krav Maga instructor…

SPLAT! CeaseFire interrupter winds up pushing daisies

[caption id="attachment_2315" align="alignnone" width="593"] The irony: The Google Street View image for the murder block shows a Chicago Police cruiser behind the Google car.  Photo courtesy Google.[/caption] One of Tio Hardiman's former "interrupters" or ganster-mediators turned up dead earlier this week.  Just a hazard of being a bad guy hanging…