By Diana Moskovitz

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Florida concealed weapons permit holders can learn a lot from this report. During your Florida concealed carry class you will learn what the law says about how to properly store your firearms, and what can happen to you if you don’t. A three-year-old girl died after accidentally shooting herself in the head with a gun she had found hidden under a mattress, police said.

Lilianna Moore, three, had been left home alone by her father, who was out visiting his girlfriend when his daughter picked up the loaded gun in a bedroom at their apartment in St Louis, Missouri. Neighbors reported seeing a paramedic racing out of the building carrying Lilianna’s limp body in his arms, blood pouring from her head.

Why I Died – Your Concealed Weapons Permit Class is Not Enough

By Mike Seeklander

As I lay there mortally wounded, with my life slipping away, I could not help remembering the words of the instructor who had taught my concealed carry class. He said, “This training is not the end, and really not even a good beginning for your self-defense training. Get some more training!” His point, as he often repeated during the one-day class, was that I was not even close to being prepared for the real deal if it happened to me or any of the other 15 students in the class.

Now I am not sure about them, but I knew he spoke the truth about me. Fitness has never been part of my life, that firearm class was my first (just to get my carry permit), and I honestly preferred to spend my money on the skiing trip I had planned with my buddies rather than paying for more training or practice ammunition. The class got me the certificate I needed to legally carry a gun, and with a gun I had the great equalizer, right?

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As Florida concealed weapons permit class instructors we are constantly trying to improve our shooting and instructor skills by seeking out the very best firearms instructors and authors in the country. Rob Pincus and Grant Cunnington are two of the best. At MyWeaponsPermit, we totally buy into what they cover in this article, and suggest you do the same.

New Concepts of Precision in Defensive Shooting

by Grant Cunningham

I was sitting in on a Combat Focus Shooting Instructor Development course in Washington state when my ears perked up. Rob Pincus, the lead instructor and developer of the course, had drawn a couple of rectangles on the whiteboard. One depicted a target with shots evenly distributed within its area, and the other the same number of shots tightly grouped in the center.

“What can you say about these targets?” he asked the instructor candidates. “Good shooting!” exclaimed one student, the others joining in the ensuing laughter.

Rob looked a little puzzled. After all, the goal in defensive shooting is to make the bad guy go away using the least amount of time and energy necessary. Was spending time and energy to achieve smaller groups really a mark of good defensive shooting — or simply a display of meaningless athletic prowess?

“I don’t think,” he said, “that shooting more precisely than the target needs is good shooting.” He looked at me and said, “Grant, is there such a thing as too much precision?”

The implications of my answer caused me to rethink the whole notion of precision as a hallmark of defensive shooting.

Click to read why these New Concepts of Precision in Defensive Shooting can make you a safer Florida concealed weapons permit holder.

Seriously?

This guy is the poster child for how not to carry a concealed weapon. Read More – if you want.