So his comment about guns he has owned "over the years" is highly unlikely to include the time he was in Cambridge, since getting a Mass. class A or class B firearms ID as a college student in Cambridge is nearly impossible. Obviously until he was 21 he couldn't have legally owned a pistol, and even long arms and ammunition require at least a firearms ID card in Mass.
I doubt he bought and presumably sold or "lost" all of the weapons he described in the last seven years, particularly given his obvious lack of basic firearm handling knowledge. I've never seen anybody, even a novice, rack a shotgun while they were loading it. Normally one's fingers object to that. Nor do even novices rack out the ammo they have just loaded.
He also worked for CyberEdit, which provides "editing" services for resume and essay writing - in other words you hire them to "edit", or maybe ghostwrite your essay to get into medical school or college. Some people consider that line of business somewhat dubious from an ethical point of view. People who write or "edit" essays and resumes for other people are usually pretty good at writing fiction.
Suggestions? Sure, send him a polite email and ask him your questions. While you are at it you may want to ask him about his work for George Soros, and if he has any comments about the sudden rash of shootings by people who are seeing psychiatrists, since he is "Completing four year, 460-hour course of training in psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice" according to his resume.
Until 2005, Blanchfield was at Harvard, probably living in Cambridge MA.
It looks like Blanchfield spent some part of 2005, probably the summer, overseas in Europe.
From September 2005 until May 2006 his resume says he was " Director of Communications for the International Debate Education Association (IDEA) at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon." So that's presumably when he was "out West."
By Fall 2008 Blanchfield was apparently living in Georgia, which is when and where he had his supposed epiphany.
So objectively, the period of time from when he went "out West" to his epiphany was about 3 years. He describes in his article as:
"But when I moved first out West, and then to the South, I got into guns big-time. I’ve owned a dozen guns over the years, including a Bushmaster AR-15, and have fired scores more. I’ve put in countless hours at the range, in the woods, and at gun shows."
Just the kind of spinning of the facts that probably makes one highly valuable in the world of for hire resume and essay "editing".