LGC Training and Education Committee

NRA Personal Protection Outside The Home teaches the knowledge, skills, and attitude essential for avoiding dangerous confrontations and for the safe, effective, and responsible use of a concealed pistol for self-defense outside the home.

Description

This course builds upon the basic concepts taught in Personal Protection In The Home that covered mindset, legal issues, decision-making under pressure, and planning for the worst with additional scenarios and training meant to facilitate self-defense outside your home, business or workplace, or any public venue where firearm possession is not prohibited by law.

The course will teach legal aspects of concealed carry and self-defense, carry modes and concealment, presenting the pistol from concealment, position and movement, and special shooting techniques.  Each student will be paired with an experienced defensive handgun instructor for the duration of the course.  Students will learn basic defensive shooting skills, strategies for safety and responding to a violent confrontation outside, firearms and the law, how to choose a handgun for self-defense, and continued opportunities for skill development. 

To be successful in this course, you will need:

• A quality pistol appropriate for concealed carry, recommended minimum of 9mm or .38special
• A quality strong-side hip holster, inside or outside the waistband design, constructed of leather or kydex, form-fitted for the pistol or revolver being used and having a rigid mouth, and must cover the trigger and trigger guard area
• A quality belt, constructed of stiff material and preferrably designed for carrying a holster and a firearm
• 250 rounds of quality ammunition - see additional details below
• Spare magazines or speed loaders with appropriate pouches - at least 2 additional (total of 3)
• Clothing appropriate for concealed carry (concealment garment)
• Eye and hearing protection

Students should expect to shoot around 250 rounds of ammunition.  Ammunition must be factory-loaded, no handloads.  Additionally, Lafayette Gun Club does not permit steel core, steel jacket, armor-piercing, or tracer ammunition.  Wolf, TulAmmo, and Brown Bear, Silver Bear, and Golden Bear ammunition are all steel jacketed which is prohibited on LGC's indoor range and therefore prohibited for this course.

Course Prerequisites

NRA Personal Protection Outside The Home course is for law-abiding adult citizens, as defined by applicable federal, state, & local law.

Participants are required to have previously completed the NRA Basic Personal Protection In the Home course.  

This is an intermediate level shooting course on how to use a firearm for  self-defense, and requires participants to have already mastered safe gun handling and basic marksmanship skills prior to attending the course.  

This is not an introductory firearms course and requires experience with safe loading, unloading, and firing of your firearm.  Violation of safe firearm handling rules will result in dismissal from the course. 

Course Schedule

• Sunday, 9am-4pm classroom, 4pm-9pm range exercises
• Monday, 2pm-10pm range exercises

Questions / Contact

For questions, please contact the LGC Chief Instructor, Larry Akins, at lgctraining@gmail.com