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.

WSJ: Wanna make money? Invest in gun stocks

The key to making money in the stock market this year? In a word:  Guns. So much for gun control, which observers say is pretty much a dead duck with the exception of a few isolated areas. The Wall Street Journal's Marketwatch has an article today about the great profits…

Great Guns V Winners!

[caption id="attachment_10180" align="alignnone" width="600"] Olivia Logue pulls the winning ticket last night as GSL First Lady Wendy Boch holds the door open for her. Dennis Reed looks on.[/caption] You remember we plugged our Great Guns V drawing a lot over the last six months or so. Well, last night was…

Gun haters cheer tyranny

  Days of our Trailers found an editorial piece (or is it a news item?) in the NY Daily News. Yeah, it's the same sorry excuse for a newspaper that claimed, falsely, that the Navy Yard killer used an AR-15 when in fact it was a garden variety pump shotgun.…

IL CCW Fingerprints: Are they going to be required?

  We're getting all sorts of people asking us about fingerprints for the Illinois CCW license. Are they going to be required?  Are they not?  The statute itself says, "the Department may accept an application submitted without a set of fingerprints in which case the Department shall be granted 30…

Guns Save Lives day coming up Sunday, Dec. 15th.

"Guns Save Lives" Day - an event sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation - will be held this coming Sunday, December 15th. There is some confusion that folks think it's "Guns Save Life" that is sponsoring this event. Nope, it's not us.  However, Guns Save Life does support the concepts…