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We can certainly help you with the decision making process with simple guidelines to follow and asking you questions to help direct you. Our one piece of advice though, if an instructor flat out tells you which gun to purchase they aren't working in your best interest.
A few reasons, primarily because of everyone's availability; ranges, students, instructors, etc.. Secondly we don't own our own facility yet and while we'd love to partner with local ranges for scheduled drill nights, we haven't found a hosting facility yet. While this sounds like a huge let down, what it does allow is for you the student to dictate when you'd like to hold your class. We don't raise prices just because there's only 1 or 2 students, in fact we use the opportunity to give you better instruction with more one on one time
No, our primary goal is to develop better entry level and beyond shooters. There are a million different ccw instructors but as far as we can tell only 3 or 4 trainers like us. Those that are building ground level fundamentals tailored to the new gun owners wanting to be better.
Thomas Hogan has been shooting and competing across the US for close to 20 years and has 8 years of experience in private and building security. He uses this experience to help teach new shooters how develop solid fundamentals and teach churches and businesses how to best maintain the balance of being both safe and welcoming. He currently trains in Minneapolis, Minnesota and El Paso Texas.