Take a look at the headlines of
any major newspaper and you can tell that these are difficult times. Turn on
CNN and you’ll hear reports of wars and terrorist attacks. It doesn’t take much
to convince people that their safety is in jeopardy. With official resources
spread so thin, more and more, people are taking the responsibility for their
own safety. For many, the first step in doing so is to consider a firearm as
part of the solution.
Just as owning a piano doesn’t
make you a musician, simply owning a firearm doesn’t make you prepared to
defend yourself or your family. There are legal and ethical responsibilities as
well as a host of practical issues to take into consideration. In addition, the
dynamics of a life or death encounter demand the proper mind set, tactical
skills and shooting ability if you hope to survive.
Increasingly, those in the
military and law enforcement communities are also looking to supplement their
official training. As time and finances run short, agencies are often forced to
cut all but mandatory training. This leaves officers and military personnel to
deal with rapidly increasing threats using reduced skills and confidence in
their survivability. Constantly, these professionals face the need to spend
their own time and money to obtain the training that they need to accomplish
their missions.
The goal of this manual is to lay
a solid foundation on which to build a lifestyle anchored by protection and
safety. With the objective of giving the individual control of his or her
immediate environment, this foundation can be combined with hands-on training
and diligent practice, to provide a real sense of security for you and those
you seek to protect.
It should be stressed that a
manual such as this is only the first step in this process. The principles,
tactics and skills taught here MUST be developed through professional training
that is grounded in the real world. At all costs, you should avoid any training
that is based on the concepts gleaned from target shooting, so called “practical”
competition or out-dated methods. These things are a substantial hindrance to
surviving a deadly force encounter. In short, they can get you KILLED!
Beginning with a thorough
discussion of the principles of personal protection, we then dissect an overview
of personal security considerations. This manual then hopes to offer basic
skills as a starting point for the novice and as a review to polish the ability
of the experienced shooter. It progresses to more advanced skills and tactics,
as well as detailed considerations that are specific to each type of weapon
(handgun, shotgun and rifle).
This manual is unique in that it
contains detailed lesson plans in outline form as well as courses of fire and
score sheets. In addition, there are handouts that may be reproduced and
distributed if this manual is used in a small group training environment.
Created in modular form, each section of this manual can be used independent of
the others. While this makes for some redundancy in the printed material, it
adds great flexibility for its presentation in training.