New Owner: Safe Handling
For anyone who has never held a firearm, or just bought one. Loading, unloading, clearing, and storing it safely.
Brushy Creek Indoor Range · 4 hrs
Safety, awareness and defensive skills
Most of being prepared has nothing to do with a firearm. It is noticing early, stepping away, keeping your home safe, knowing the law, and being able to stop a bleed. When there is truly no other choice, it is the skill to end a threat safely. I teach all of it, at ranges and classrooms across the Triangle.

Most of my students had never been to a range before their first class.
No experience needed. No judgment, ever.
Notice early, avoid, de-escalate. The best outcome is the one where nothing happens.
Safe storage, kids and guests, and a family plan everyone in the house knows.
Safe handling first, then fundamentals, then defensive shooting under stress.
When force is justified, when it is not, and what happens in the hours after.
Stop the bleed and trauma first aid. The life you save may be someone you love.
Skills fade. You leave every class with a plan to keep them, and reminders to use it.
Small groups at four friendly locations.
For anyone who has never held a firearm, or just bought one. Loading, unloading, clearing, and storing it safely.
Brushy Creek Indoor Range · 4 hrs
Safe storage, talking to kids, guests in the house, and a written family plan. Bring your partner free.
Ironwood Community Center · 3 hrs
The state-required course: law, safety, and the qualification. Certificate the same day.
Cedar Hollow Rifle & Pistol Club · 8 hrs
A small, women-only class. Safe handling, fundamentals, and a home plan — at your pace.
Brushy Creek Indoor Range · 4 hrs
Tourniquets, wound packing and pressure. Leave with a kit for your car and home.
Ironwood Community Center · 2.5 hrs
What the permit class leaves out: drawing from concealment, holstering safely, and when not to.
Cedar Hollow Rifle & Pistol Club · 6 hrs

For the whole household
Partners, grandparents and older teens are welcome in the classroom courses. Nobody has to touch a firearm.

Mar 19 – 21, 2027
Laurel Gap Training Ranch, NC mountains
Three days of instruction, lodging and meals. Mornings on the range, afternoons on awareness, law and medical. Eight students.
$1,150 See the itinerary

Apr 24 – 25, 2027
Cedar Hollow cabins, Ashby Ford
For households with teens. First aid, a home plan, safe storage, and an optional range morning for adults.
$480 per family See the itinerary

I teach everyday people — parents, retirees, nurses, first-time owners — to keep their homes safe and to stay calm when it matters.
More about me →I bought a pistol after a break-in on our street and was honestly scared of it. Jordan started with the safe and the kids, not the trigger. I sleep better now.
The permit class covered the law. Carrying Responsibly is where I learned what carrying actually asks of you — including all the times you should walk away.
Stop the Bleed should be required for everyone. I put a kit in both cars the same night.
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Private lessons at a range near you, or a home-safety visit for your family.