Guys I suggest any and all of you, if you can, take Massad Ayoobs LFI-1 class (Lethal Force Institute.)
It's 40 hours (actualy in my case it was 44 hours.) Over 1/2 is on law. Not must book law but what happens in the courtroom.
Mas has been around a bit (see below.)
It's a very enlighting course. This is where I get my information from as I'm a graduate of his course. Oh, and he is retired now. Lives in Florida.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massad_Ayoob
Massad F. Ayoob (born July 20, 1948) is an internationally-known firearms and self-defense instructor. He is the Director of the Lethal Force Institute in Concord, New Hampshire, has taught police techniques and civilian self-defense to both law enforcement officers and private citizens in numerous venues since 1974, and has appeared as an expert witness in several trials. He has served as a part-time police officer in New Hampshire since 1972 and currently holds the rank of Captain in the Grantham, New Hampshire police department.
Massad Ayoob has authored several books and over one thousand articles on firearms, combat techniques, self-defense, and legal issues, and has served in an editorial capacity for Guns Magazine, American Handgunner, Gun Week, and Combat Handguns. Since 1995, he has written self-defense- and firearms-related articles for Backwoods Home Magazine. He also has a featured segment on the television show Personal Defense TV, which airs on The Outdoor Channel in the United States.
While Ayoob has been in the courtroom as a testifying police officer, expert witness, and police prosecutor, he is not an attorney; he is, however a former Vice Chairman of the Forensic Evidence Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), and is believed to be the only non-attorney to ever hold this position. His published work was cited by the Violence Policy Center in their amicus curiae brief filed with the US Supreme Court in the District of Columbia v. Heller case, and he himself filed a declaration in another amicus brief in this case. His course for attorneys, titled "The Management of the Lethal Force/Deadly Weapons Case" was, according to Jeffrey Weiner (former President of NACDL), "the best course for everything you need to know but are never taught in law school."
Ayoob remains an internationally prominent law enforcement officer training instructor. Since 1987, he has served as Chair of Firearms Committee of the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers (ASLET).[dated info] He also serves on the Advisory Board of the International Law Enforcement EducatorsĀ and TrainersĀ Association, and is an Instructor at the National Law Enforcement Training Center.
Critics of Ayoob, such as John Rosenthal of Stop Handgun Violence, a Massachusetts gun control organization, accuse him of preparing potential killers to be more lethal, despite screening processes which permit only law enforcement officers, Federal Firearms Licensees, holders of state-issued concealed handgun carry permits, or those having similar credentials to take his courses.
He has also written a few good books.
- Armed and Alive (1979)
- Ayoob Files: The Book (1995)
- Ayoob on Firearms (year unknown)
- Fundamentals of Modern Police Impact Weapons (1996)
- Gun Digest Book of SIG-Sauer: A Complete Look at SIG-Sauer Pistols (2004)
- Gunproof Your Children / Handgun Primer (1986)
- Handgun Primer (1986)
- Hit The White Part (1986) (on bowling pin shooting)
- In The Gravest Extreme (1980)
- LFI Handgun Safety (year unknown)
- Physio-Psychological Aspects of Violent Encounters (year unknown)
- Police Survival Shooting (How Close is too Close) (year unknown)
- Post Shooting Trauma (year unknown)
- The Complete Book of Handguns (1998Ā2001)
- The Experts Speak Out: The Police View of Gun Control (1981)
- The Gun Digest Book of Combat Handgunnery (with Chuck Taylor, 2002)
- The Semi-Automatic Pistol in Police Service and Self Defense (1987)
- The Stressfire series, three volumes: Handgun (1986), Shotgun (1992), Rifle (year unknown)
- The Truth About Self-Protection (1983)
- The Gun Digest Book of Concealed Carry (2008)
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