Teaches the basic knowledge, skills, and attitude essential to the safe and efficient use of a handgun for protection of self and family, and to provide information on the law-abiding individual's right to self-defense.
This is an eight-hour course. Students should expect to shoot approximately 100 rounds of ammunition. Students will learn basic defensive shooting skills, strategies for home safety and responding to a violent confrontation, firearms and the law, how to choose a handgun for self-defense, and continued opportunities for skill development. Students will receive the NRA Guide to the Basics of Personal Protection In The Home handbook, NRA Gun Safety Rules brochure, the Winchester/NRA Marksmanship Qualification booklet, and course completion certificate.
Topics:
- Safety
- Mental Preparation
- Strategies for Home & Personal Safety
- Developing Defensive Shooting Skills
- Firearms, Self Defense and the Law
- Selecting Firearms, ammunition & Accessories
- Participants will learn and Experience:
- 2 Live Fire Practice Sessions
- Defensive Shooting Safety
- Firearms Storage
- Awareness
- Defensive Mindset
- Center of Exposed Mass
- Defensive Accuracy
- Shooting Positions
- Flash Sight Picture
- Point Shooting
- Multiple Shots
- Breaking Tunnel Vision, & Auditory Exclusion
- Multiple Assailants
- Cover vs. Concealment
- Movement
- Reloads
- Malfunctions
- Dry Fire Practice
- Discussion to include:
- Making Yourself Safer
- Making Your Home Safer
- Safe Room
- Confronting an Intruder
- Aftermath of a Shooting
- Self Defense and the Law
- Selecting a Firearm for Personal Protection
- Selecting Ammunition for Personal Protection
- Purchase, Transfer & Possession of Firearms
- Use of Deadly Force
- Potential Criminal & Civil Actions
- There will be no shooting from the holster.
Equipment:
Handgun :.38, 9mm or larger caliber handgun, 200 rounds of ammo, Hearing protection, eye protection, long pants, closed toed shoes
Prerequisites : NRA Basic Pistol, NRA FIRST Steps, or equivalent
The course will be offered to the first 6 participants who sign up. Course fee is $275
(paid in advance, non-refundable).
A minimum of four students is necessary to hold class.
