Neil Meyers

A responsibility armed citizen needs other skills in addition to firearms skills. We teach practical unarmed self defense skills used by military and law enforcement, as well as mental skills to recognize potential dangers, defuse confrontations before they become violent, and manage fear. Learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones when your gun is not the answer.

Universal firearms safety rules. Proper handling, loading, unloading, and storage of a handgun. Range safety rules and practices. The five elements of correctly firing a handgun. How to select a self-defense handgun and ammunition. Introduction to Idaho gun and self defense laws. Introduction to handgun maintenance. Mental skills to detect and avoid potential danger, defuse, deescalate a situation before it becomes violent, and manage fear so you can apply your skills.

Detect and avoid potential danger, defuse, deescalate a situation before it becomes violent, and manage fear so you can apply your skills, Get your gun into the fight - the five steps in correctly drawing a pistol from its holster. Keep your gun in the fight - clearing malfunctions; reloading when you want to, reloading when you need to, one-handed operations. Put rounds on target. - engaging single or multiple targets, shooting with either hand. Don’t get shot - use of movement, cover, and concealment. Stay out of jail - introduction to Idaho gun and self defense laws.

Detect and avoid potential danger, defuse, deescalate a situation before it becomes violent, and manage fear so you can apply your skills, Get your gun into the fight - the five steps in correctly drawing a pistol from its holster. Keep your gun in the fight - clearing malfunctions; reloading when you want to, reloading when you need to, one-handed operations. Put rounds on target. - engaging single or multiple targets, shooting with either hand. Don’t get shot - use of movement, cover, and concealment. Stay out of jail - Detailed summary of Idaho gun and self defense laws.

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If you carry a pistol you must be able to stop someone from taking it away from you and using it against you. This class will teach you how to defend and retain your handgun, and how to disarm an opponent of their handgun (or take your’s back). This is not a shooting class - no live fire. This class is about fighting hand-to-hand with handguns involved. Learn to integrate, and seamlessly transition between, unarmed, knife, handgun, etc. and between non-lethal force and lethal force. This class will be slightly physical and involve some contact in simulated fights with inert training guns & knives.

If you are new to, or have not yet had formal training on, the AR15 platform, this class will familiarize you with the platform and teach you the fundamental skills you need to operate it safely and effectively.