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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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Wheels come off for gun haters…

Mar 26, 2013 jboch

The good guys are winning this fight for our civil rights.  The evidence is everywhere! Part of this evidence is the problems that have been snowballing for gun haters everywhere, not only in their thwarted efforts to take our gun rights away, but in their personal lives as well. Examples…

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I’m with “stupid”…

Mar 26, 2013 jboch

  From AntiJenX Someone posted this “article” [See indented area below] to Facebook last week, and several of us took exception. We’re very, very tired, of the hoplophobic left fabricating this hysterical nonsense and attributing it to those of us who believe that we have a fundamental human right to…

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More love from Dan Hull…

Mar 25, 2013 jboch

More from Dan Hull, the guy who sent us an angry missive a while back that was a big hit with our readers. We thought he waved the white flag about a week afterwards. He sends more love after his missive last week. At least he's not accusing me of…

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NRA 1304 times more popular than Stop Concealed Carry

Mar 25, 2013 jboch

  Compare a group of 12 leftists turning out in downtown Chicago (population 2,707,120 in 2011) last week... [caption id="attachment_6668" align="alignnone" width="440"] Protesting the inevitable: A group of 12 fringe leftists protest the coming right-to-carry law. They wore targets on their chests to symbolize their kookish belief that law-abiding, card-carrying…

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A dog named “Tank”

Mar 25, 2013 jboch

Wow.  Something you'll want to read... Excerpts below. A Dog named Tank (One Marine's View) - They told me the big black Lab's name was Reggie, as I looked at him lying in his pen. The shelter was clean, no-kill, and the people really friendly. ... I thought the shelter…