Today I attended Tactical Firearms Training LLC's (Home Page) Comprehensive Indiana Gun Law course.
I met Guy Relford at the INGO table at the last Indy 1500. I recommended he come here to post his upcoming classes, and the rest seems to be history.
The class today was a look at US and Indiana state law that address four specific areas:
1. Possessing a firearm
2. Carrying a handgun
3. Use of a firearm for self defense
4. Civil liability
We started at the Eagle Creek classroom at 8:30 sharp and went to 3ish with a few breaks for bathroom visits and lunch. The class was well organized with most of the content contained in a Power Point presentation. This was not just a cursory overview, but rather as the title suggests, a comprehensive review. Guy was meticulous in his citations of the case law and Indiana Code allowing the student research and pull the cited sections if desired. I don't want to make this sound like a dry legal lecture. While the law was covered Guy also went "off script" and expanded a great deal on areas that needed to have context or history filled in.
We had some great class discussions and Guy was good about entertaining student questions or requests for clarification. To Guy's credit, he did a very good job of leaving most of the legalese behind and explaining concepts in plain English.
Worth the price of admission alone, I learned what a 'curtilage' is.
Now I get on my soap box. I read frequent posts here other places about how training is too expensive or too long or too far away or too this or too that........ Here you have a local class on a very, very important topic taught by an expert in the field at a discount for INGO forum members and attendance was not at all what it should have been.
At what point will you prioritize the knowledge in your head over acquiring more guns? Is it better to spend $100 on another trinket or invest that money in yourself to hopefully keep yourself out of jail and limit your civil liability if you do ever have to shoot someone?
In conclusion, I thought the class was a good value, a lot of fun and I sincerely hope that the next time this class is offered, more INGO members take advantage of the opportunity.
I met Guy Relford at the INGO table at the last Indy 1500. I recommended he come here to post his upcoming classes, and the rest seems to be history.
The class today was a look at US and Indiana state law that address four specific areas:
1. Possessing a firearm
2. Carrying a handgun
3. Use of a firearm for self defense
4. Civil liability
We started at the Eagle Creek classroom at 8:30 sharp and went to 3ish with a few breaks for bathroom visits and lunch. The class was well organized with most of the content contained in a Power Point presentation. This was not just a cursory overview, but rather as the title suggests, a comprehensive review. Guy was meticulous in his citations of the case law and Indiana Code allowing the student research and pull the cited sections if desired. I don't want to make this sound like a dry legal lecture. While the law was covered Guy also went "off script" and expanded a great deal on areas that needed to have context or history filled in.
We had some great class discussions and Guy was good about entertaining student questions or requests for clarification. To Guy's credit, he did a very good job of leaving most of the legalese behind and explaining concepts in plain English.
Worth the price of admission alone, I learned what a 'curtilage' is.
Now I get on my soap box. I read frequent posts here other places about how training is too expensive or too long or too far away or too this or too that........ Here you have a local class on a very, very important topic taught by an expert in the field at a discount for INGO forum members and attendance was not at all what it should have been.
At what point will you prioritize the knowledge in your head over acquiring more guns? Is it better to spend $100 on another trinket or invest that money in yourself to hopefully keep yourself out of jail and limit your civil liability if you do ever have to shoot someone?
In conclusion, I thought the class was a good value, a lot of fun and I sincerely hope that the next time this class is offered, more INGO members take advantage of the opportunity.
