Pistol Courses and Certifications
Basic Pistol Defense Course
Basic Pistol Defense Course teaches firearm safety, care, different pistol types, shooting fundamentals, common errors, and carrying a pistol. This is a hybrid of the NRA's CCW and Personal Protection in the Home courses that take you from basic knowledge to carrying confidently while defending your self, family and home from intruders.
Basics of Pistol Shooting
The NRA's Basics of Pistol Shooting (BOPS) course offered by Mordecai Defense Academy is a two-day course (one day classroom, one day range) covering firearm safety, nomenclature, maintenance, ammunition basics, and basic shooting skills.
License to Carry (LTC)
The Texas License to Carry (LTC) offers numerous benefits, including reciprocity in many other states, easier firearm purchases, and enhanced legal safeguards for self-defense. Licensed individuals are also permitted to carry in more locations with fewer restrictions than Permitless Carry, such as universities and most state and local government buildings.
Texas-sized Pistol Defense Course
This five-day "Texas-sized Pistol Self-defense Course" aims to teach participants how to safely handle, carry, and use a pistol for self-defense, and defending your home by building confidence and reducing fear.
Earning your LTC is included in this course.
Intermediate Pistol Defense Course
Once you have completed the Basic Pistol Defense Course, your next goal should be to learn more skills as a means to protect the ones you love with more confidence in situations outside the home.
Advanced Pistol Defense Course
Improve the skills you learned in our Basic and Intermediate Pistol Defense Courses in this four day challenge and acquire new tools to be safer in public, more accurate when in contact, how to survive multiple contacts at once and mastering the pistol in a defensive role.