YOU MUST BE LEGALLY PERMITTED TO POSSESS A FIREARM TO TAKE ANY FIREARMS INSTRUCTIONAL COURSE

 NO LIVE AMMUNITION IS PERMITTED IN THE CLASSROOM FOR ANY COURSE.

Women's Handgun Safety Course.  Call us at 303-805-2471 for more information.   We are proud to be participants of the NRA Women on Target Instructional Shooting Clinics                                                                                   

Private Instruction-Based on needs of the student and capability

Basic Pistol Safety Course:  This course will deal primarily with two types of pistols in most common use today:  the revolver and the semi-automatic.  The NRA Basic Personal Protection Series is based upon a building block approach.  This is the first of a three course series in the NRA Personal Protection Program and is a prerequisite to Personal Protection Inside the Home and Personal Protection Outside the Home courses.

Americans own pistols today for a wide variety of reasons.  Some people own pistols for personal protection.  Others fire pistols in competitive shooting tournaments held throughout the country.  Still others are hunters that use pistols for hunting in 47 of 50 states.  

A new shooter will quickly discover that pistol shooting is FUN!  It requires good hand and eye coordination, plus mental concentration and discipline. 

The purpose of this course is to teach the safe and proper use of a pistol so that it can be enjoyed to its fullest extent.  Subjects covered in this course are:

            Gun safety in general and specific to handguns

             Pistols, their terminology and parts

            Type of ammunition

            The operation of various pistols-Cleaning, maintenance and storage of pistols

Personal Protection Inside the Home:  
As a result of the increase in crime that began in the 1980s, recent years have seen increased public interest in every aspect of self-defense and personal protection.  Enrollment in martial-arts classes has soared, sales of home and vehicle security systems are at an all-time high, and interest in self-defense handguns and firearms training has never been greater.  A sign of the public concern with personal safety has been the passage (in about 40 states) of laws permitting law-abiding citizens the right to carry a concealed firearm.

For many, the mention of personal protection evokes images of martial-arts techniques or a handgun in the night stand.  However, the use of force is only one of many methods that you can employ to defend yourself or your loved ones, and indeed is used only as a last resort (when other methods have failed).  For myriad ethical, legal and practical reasons, it is always better to escape, evade, deter or otherwise avoid an attack rather than be forced to counter it with force.  Even when planning and skill give you an overwhelming advantage over an assailant, sidestepping a violent confrontation is always the best course.  Homeowners who do choose to incorporate a handgun into their personal protection strategy will also find this course valuable.  This course includes sections on shooting positions, aiming and firing techniques, the use of cover and concealment, and methods of clearing various types of malfunctions.  These skills and other presented in this course for the shooting skills used to counter a life-threatening attack on your home and those within.  

The Basics of Personal Protection inside the Home is divided into six lessons and an exam lesson. 

            One                  Introduction to Defensive Shooting

            Two                 Basic Defensive Handgun Skills

            Three               Firearms and the law

            Four                 Strategies for Home Safety and Responding to a Violent Confrontation

           Five                  Selecting a Handgun for Self-Defense

           Six                   Sport Shooting and Training Activities

 Personal Protection in the Home is a hands-on program encompassing 8 hours of classroom and range instruction.  Mastery of the skills taught in the Basic Pistol Course is a prerequisite for this course.  The course exposes students to several schools of thought regarding defensive shooting technique.  But since no single style of shooting works for every individual, the course strives to avoid any one rigid or dogmatic system.  In this second course of the NRA Basic Personal Protection Series, participants learn a defensive or flash sight picture, to fire single shots and aimed pairs from various shooting positions, to shoot using a center-of-mass hold, to effectively use cover and concealment and to employ point-shooting and multiple target techniques.  Also included are self-defense techniques to improve awareness and mental preparation, methods of enhancing unarmed home safety and the legal aspects of the use of deadly force. Furthermore, many states have laws requiring you to retreat as much as safely possible before using force to defend yourself or others (although in most states you do not have a “duty to retreat” in home defense situations (be sure you understand the laws of your state). 

There are times, however, when circumstances allow no other option but the use of force to save your life or the lives of your family members.  Under such circumstances, a firearm—most commonly, a handgun—is the most effective defensive tool available, if it is used properly.  The ability to use a firearm effectively is not something you are born with; it must be developed through the mastery of a series of interlocking skills, and then must be reinforced through frequent practice.  

Basic Personal Protection in the Home is unique because it addresses both aspects of a total personal protection strategy in the home.  Much of the course deals with techniques and strategies designed to deter burglars, home invaders and other criminals.  Included are ways to make your home less appealing to professional criminals, who are inclined to choose easier targets.  This information alone will be of value to many, especially those who have chosen not to have a firearm in their homes.  

Personal Protection Outside the Home:                                                              This third course in the NRA Basic Personal Protection Series is NOT a basic shooting course.  The student must have mastered the skills taught in the first two courses prior to being accepted into this course.  Mastery can be demonstrated by presenting a NRA Basic Personal Protection in the Home Course Certificate or by passing a pre-course evaluation proscribed by the NRA.  This course is offered in two levels.  Level one consists of Lessons 1-4, 8 and 9, below and is estimated to at about 9 hours to complete.  Level two consists of all 9 lessons and takes an estimated additional 5 hours (Estimated 14 hours total).

 

One                  An introduction to Concealed Carry Safety and the Defensive Mindset

Two                 An introduction to Self-Defense and Concealed Carry

Three               Legal Aspects of Concealed Carry and Self Defense

Four                 Carry Modes and Concealment

Five                  Presenting the Handgun from Concealment (Holster work)

Six                   Presentation, Position and Movement in defensive situations

Seven               Special Shooting Techniques

Eight                 Sport, Competition and Training Opportunities for Shooters

Nine                 Review and examination

 
This is a fairly comprehensive course featuring instruction to safely and effectively concealing your handgun, safely present (draw) from concealment (strong side hip holster or holster purse), target engagement regardless of the direction from which the threat is approaching, reloading of your firearm under various conditions, remediation of stoppages and malfunctions and teaching when your firearm is no more useful than the brick at your feet. 

This course is objectives-based.  A participant must accomplish the learning objectives before proceeding to more complex tasks.  This requirement may take more time or less time than indicated in the estimated times presented above. 

 Our certificate awarding courses are all NRA certified.  The NRA has the wisdom to admit that “No course is comprehensive or encyclopedic in content.  No course or technique has a monopoly on validity.  (We will) Mentor your students through the NRA Basic Concealed Handgun Development Exercises to enhance their basic skills.  Encourage your students to seek training in many techniques from as many sources as possible,…”  Accordingly, over our combined 70 years of shooting and sharing, we have had the pleasure of learning some advanced techniques from other highly qualified trainers and consistent with the NRA guidance above, we may also share, from time to time, some of the valuable lessons learned from those instructors and/or experiences.   Should we do so, we will clearly identify when we do, if they are or are not contained within the NRA materials and why we believe the additional technique(s) is/are advantageous to the participant(s).  

 
We have limited availability to firearms, ammunition, eye and ear protection should they be needed by a participant.  Please inquire in advance of the class so we can obtain the necessary resources. 

Offerings that Complement our Shooting Classes-

Refuse to be a Victim

 This Course was originally developed by the women of the NRA to be offered to women nationwide who requested crime prevention and personal safety information.  This course is now NRA sponsored and is available through us to nearly any venue you might request and is available with or without a firearms section.  A partial outline of the topics covered in this course is presented below:

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CRIMINAL PREDATORS

MENTAL PREPAREDNESS

                Levels of awareness

                Mental conditioning

                Ramifications and outcomes

 HOME SECURITY

                Doors, windows, locks

                Lighting

                Shrubbery

                Alarms

                Dogs

                Keys

                Visitors

                Your schedule

                Mailboxes

PHYSICAL SECURITY

                Awareness

                Using ATMs

                Walking

                Using elevators

                Using Public Transportation

                Be cautious when the light go out

                Briefcase, purse and wallet security

                Public venues such as laundry rooms and rest rooms

AUTOMOBILE SECURITY

                Approaching and entering your car (why not to lace your keys into your fingers)

                Breakdowns

                Road Rage

                Carjacking

OUT OF TOWN TRAVEL

CYBERCRIME

PHYSICAL CONDITIONING AND SELF-DEFENSE TRAINING

PERSONAL PROTECTION DEVISES FIREARMS AND OTHERWISE

With training modules on:

                Workplace crime

                Parents with children

                Senior Citizens and those with disabilitiesSupplemental information on Domestic violence and stalking

NRA Firearm Safety in the Home

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