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.

Local GSL member at Lew Rockwell: Lies and the State

[caption id="attachment_5374" align="alignnone" width="550"] A woman hears that her sister, a teacher at Sandy Hook Elemetary School, was among the victims. She died shielding her students with her body.[/caption]   Elizabeth Cameron, one of our Guns Save Life family, had a piece published at Lew Rockwell a few days ago…

CHICAGO: The true causes of Chicago’s insane orgy of violence

Welcome to Chicago. [caption id="attachment_5362" align="alignnone" width="480"] Chicago Police investigate near a body after a shooting on S. Champlain Avenue near 75th Street in Chicago on Tuesday, January 29, 2013. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune) Caption by Chicago Tribune.[/caption]   Chicago's already off to a rousing start this year, with forty-some…

Guns Save Life Jan Meeting Summary (Rantoul)

[caption id="attachment_5300" align="alignnone" width="600"] It was packed, standing room only at the January GSL meeting in Rantoul. Here, Frank Wright gives our response to the Newtown, CT massacre.[/caption] Guns Save Life’s President John Boch called the January 2013 meeting to order at 7:00 sharp. It was a chaotic night with…