NRA Personal Protection 

Outside the Home

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Designed for experienced handgun shooters and CCW holders , this course teaches students the knowledge, skills, and attitude essential for avoiding dangerous confrontations and for the safe, effective, and responsible use of a concealed pistol for self-defense outside the home.

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This is a 16-hour course broken up into two days, it includes classroom and range time. 

 

Course topics cover:

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  • Concealment techniques and devices

  • Presenting the handgun from concealment

  • Finding and utilizing cover/concealment

  • Movement

  • Point shooting

  • Defending against multiple targets

  • One-hand shooting

  • Low-light shooting

  • Strategies for preventing violent encounters

  • The legal ramifications of using lethal force in self-defense outside of the home                                                    

  Students should possess and be able to perform defensive pistol skills. Also, understand the basic legal concepts relating to the use of firearms in self-defense, and must know and observe not only general gun safety rules but also those safety principles that are specific to defensive situations as outlined in the NRA Basic Personal Protection In The Home course.

NOTE:  Lesson III of the course, "Firearms and the Law, and Legal Aspects of Self-Defense,"of the Personal Protection In And Outside The Home courses are conducted by an attorney licensed to practice law within the state in which this course is given and who is familiar with this area of the law; a Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) who possesses an intermediate or higher Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) certificate granted within the state' or an individual currently certified to instruct in this area of the law by the state in which this course is presented. NRA certified instructors may conduct this lesson only if they meet the requirements stated above, and then only in their capacity as an attorney or other state certified individual, not in their capacity as an NRA certified instructor.

 What is needed:

  • Students should demonstrate that they have the knowledge, skills and attitudes by producing an NRA Basic Personal Protection In The Home Course Certificate, or by passing the pre-course evaluation.

  • Students need their own centerfire handgun, with at least two magazines (or speed loaders for revolvers)

  • 300 rounds of ammunition**

  • Holsters and magazine carriers

  • Eye and hearing protection

 **Time and ammunition requirements are the minimum, and may be exceeded.**

Students will receive :

  • NRA Guide to the Basics of Personal Protection Outside the Home Handbook

  • NRA Gun Safety Rules brochure

  • Appropriate (level one/level two) course completion certificate(s)