Firearms training is a serious activity whether you are a seasoned shooter, competitive shooter, recreational shooter or unfamiliar with firearms. Applied Freedom Academy’s goal is to make your training experience safe, enjoyable and exceed your expectations.
A proper mental attitude and effective training are paramount to becoming safe, responsible and proficient with firearms. These essential attitudes and skills develop within a cooperative relationship between participants and the instructor. Class rules and systematic training techniques are established for everyone’s safety, enjoyment and success.
Our certified instructors are approachable whether in the classroom, on the range, or relaxing in a social atmosphere. They are available to answer your questions and dedicated to ensuring that you enjoy your training. We work to make your experience exceed your expectations and that you leave class feeling more accomplished, capable, and confident than before arriving.
COMPREHENSIVE INSTRUCTION
Applied Freedom Academy utilizes only certified instructors who are qualified to teach beginner to advanced youth and adult in the pistol, rifle and shotgun disciplines.
We understand that everyone’s training needs and schedules are unique. That is why Applied Freedom Academy will design a custom course tailored to your individual needs and enhance your personal training experience.
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
Safety and encouragement are paramount to learning new skills. Applied Freedom Academy embraces four easy to learn principles of gun safety and instill this mentality into every student. We ensure that participants feel safe and learn with confidence both in the classroom and on the range.
Applied Freedom Academy instructors strive for personal and professional excellence. We continually train to master our skills and are growing in our abilities to train others. Even the most seasoned shooters will appreciate what they can learn and benefit from our years of specialized training experience using unique diagnostic training tools.
TRAINING LEVELS
Basic courses provide the essential fundamentals that instill the safety, proficiency and confidence required for successfully advancing personal abilities. Advanced courses provide participants with the mental preparation and enhanced skills required for anchoring and mastering the fundamentals. CCW and Advanced Concealed Carry courses provide the responsible citizen with realistic training that promotes the knowledge, attitude, judgement and skills required for the ethical and legal use of a firearm in personal defense.
R.E.A.L. TRAINING
The armed citizen must train for reality beyond the gun range. You must prepare for the unexpected in real life settings. Real life threats require a person to make crucial decisions under stress in fluid circumstances. A situation can change rapidly, unpredictably, and usually for the worst. You must develop the ability for responding under stress in volatile situations.
Natural instincts are unconscious responses that prompt a fight-or-flight reaction to a perceived threat. Instincts serve a person’s life and well-being but do not always result in the most effective or favorable outcome. Automaticity, like instincts, prompts immediate responses but differs by instilling deliberate adaptability to changing situations. It is a learned readiness to respond quickly and composedly in rapidly evolving circumstances.
Applied Freedom Academy has designed a training class where people can safely train to meet actual threats. Our simulated training course uses instinctive based training to transform a person’s natural instincts into calm yet deliberate actions when split-second decisions count. You will develop a natural and instinctive ability to increase the chance of survival under stress.
ATTITUDE FOR PERSONAL SAFETY AND SELF DEFENSE
The mind is the most powerful personal defense tool in a harsh and dangerous world. Civilian training for personal safety and self-defense requires mental preparation that is readily and legally distinguishable from law enforcement and military training.
Applied Freedom Academy courses are designed to develop a civilian personal safety and self-defense mindset. Specific objectives enhance an individual’s situational and strategic awareness, judgement, and decision-making in addition to developing gross motor skills for successfully deploying a firearm in self-defense.
PRECISION, SPEED AND ACCURACY
The precise demployment of firearms emerges from mastering solid fundamental techniques. We teach participants time-proven skills that ensure they will hit the target every time. Speed is a byproduct of the smooth execution of learned skills. Smoothness is developed by practicing a group of techniques slowly until the sequence is mastered. Accuracy is the balance between precision and speed. This balance is determined by the situation. We teach techniques to make you smooth, fast and accurate.
NRA GUN OWNER’S RESPONSIBILITY
The constitutional right to keep and bear firearms requires gun owner responsibilities.
It is the gun owner’s responsibility to learn and obey all applicable federal, state and local laws pertaining to the purchase, possession, transfer and use of a firearm.
It is the gun owner’s responsibility to store, operate and maintain his or her firearms safely.
It is the gun owner’s responsibility to ensure that unauthorized or untrained individuals cannot gain access to his or her firearms.
Guns are neither safe nor unsafe by themselves. When gun owners learn and practice responsible gun ownership, guns are safe.
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO SELF DEFENSE
The Second Amendment states, “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Embodied in the Second Amendment to the Constitution is the truth that self-governing individuals should bear the responsibility for defending themselves.
In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the Supreme Court struck down a gun control regulation, in this case a federal law that forbade nearly all civilians from possessing a handgun in the District of Columbia. A narrow 5–4 majority adopted the main conclusions that the original meaning of the 2nd Amendment protects a private right of individuals to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense.
"Our nation was built and civilized by men and women who used guns in self-defense and in pursuit of peace. One wonders indeed, if the rising crime rate, isn’t due as much as anything to the criminal’s instinctive knowledge that the average victim no longer has means of self-protection.” ― Ronald Reagan
“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
“Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom."
― John F. Kennedy
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