2015 PDN Training Tour Update #3

Rob Pincus is here and I am in Western Pennsylvania. I just finished up a great two-day course. It was perfect weather. We've had some really good weather lately on the tour. And also I've been on a couple of indoor ranges. Now it's been a while since we did a tour update. It's been a little longer than it normally takes for me to get one done. This is absolutely the busiest tour year that we've had. Of course, for those of you pay attention to my personal social media, I also had my daughter get married recently. A lot of you met her at the NRA shows over the last couple of years, knew that she's been engaged and we're very proud of her and my new son-in-law Blake. We had a great time but there's been a lot of business going on too. So we've been teaching a lot of classes here in occupied territory. Teaching in New York just outside of Manhattan, teaching in New Jersey at Shooters in Jersey in Little Egg Harbor, a place where I've run a few courses before and it's always great to see the mix of law enforcement and civilians that come out, including people with concealed carry permits in those restrictive States and the surrounding States that come out to train with us on the training tour. This is a new range. Logan's Ferry Range here in central PA. Actually Western PA just outside of Pittsburgh and I had a great group here as well. Another mix of law enforcement and civilian students. Now May is the busiest month of the 2015 Training Tour for me and all of our other contributors. I've got back to back classes all the way from New Jersey into Minnesota and then I'll be down in Iowa and Colorado in June. We're looking forward to busy months there as well. There's still a few slots left in a couple of the classes, but not very many and of course, most of my training this year is gonna be done during the tour. So I'm really excited about all the people that are coming out to train with us. Now, we've got lots of other instructors who are also incredibly busy. Mike Seeklander has been teaching. We've got Chris Frye who's been teaching. Grant Cunningham and Omari Broussard. We had him join up with one of our old time CFS instructors one of the original team from Valhalla John Brown and they just ran a law enforcement only course out in Colorado as well. Got a lot going on in the tour and hopefully you've been paying attention to the website to see that we've been doing PDN live, Caleb Causey one of our Personal Defense Network Training Tour guys was with me on Personal Defense Network live talking about medical equipment and emergency medical training. We had a great question and answer session with questions that were sent in by you our viewers and our members at PDN. We got a lot of good information out of Caleb on that one. We've also continued to put out good articles and good video material at PDN even though we're out here doing these live fire training rankings. Remember Personal Defense Network was started as a direct mail DVD series that was distributed with our partners at the NRA, Guns and Ammo, Second Amendment Foundation and then we put these stuff online, now we're bringing the training straight here on the ranges and in the classrooms around the country. We're really excited about what's coming up on the tour. We hope that you get to train with us. Meanwhile, we have to remember that not everybody has it as easy as a lot of the country does when it comes to going out and training. Being able to train in New Jersey, being able to work with companies and organizations that are supporting the second amendment rights like Shooters, like Pioneer Shooting Center in New York, and like the New Jersey Second Amendment Society is an important part of what we do while we're out here on the tour. We got a chance to talk with the new president of the New Jersey Second Amendment Society and hear about some of the things that are going on. I want you to watch a little bit of a clip so you can hear some of what he had to say from a little pro second amendment rally we had a New Jersey after the first night of our class. Cost is activism. Unfortunately, what's happening in New Jersey today is a war and it's a war against our rights. And what we're fighting for is to make sure that next year, five years, 10 years from now, we're not gonna have less rights than we did today. And despite having the strictest gun laws in the United States, I don't care what anyone says or what Brady Organization says what, the fact of the matter is is that, we have less rights today than we did five years ago. As much as I'd love to hang out with all you guys all day long, go through the shooting range, exchanging stories, spend time shooting each other's guns, every day there's legislators behind the scenes conspiring on how to limit us more and more and more. If you ask a legislator from New Jersey, what kind of gun we should have, there is no such thing as a gun that's just right. You know, they talk about features as if a criminal shooting at a cop or a law abiding citizen with one type of gun is gonna be different from any type of gun. You know, the fact is we have to go after criminals and not law abiding citizens. Every year, 88 to 120 bills are being proposed to limit us more and more and we're not talking about features, we're not talking about accessories, we're talking about the police, coming into your house, inspecting it and telling you and I, if we are suitable gun owners. Also another bill that nobody ever discusses was the fact that they want each and every one of you getting a psychological evaluation at your expense before you apply for a Firearms Identification Card to say a doctor gave me clearance, I'm allowed to own a gun.