The Modern Armed Citizen (MAC) course is designed to provide training in Everyday Carry (EDC) concepts for American citizens regardless of their current experience or skillset. It is for those who recently bought a firearm and want to learn how to safely use and maintain it. It is for those that recognize they “don’t know what they don’t know” about firearms and EDC. Maybe it has been a while since they have been interested in personal protection but now, they want to achieve the next level? It is also for anyone that wants to embrace the EDC lifestyle but lacks experience and the fundamentals in concealed carry techniques, training, protection ethics and legal contexts. MAC also is tailored for people that are familiar with or have always been around guns but want to better understand how firearms as a tool fit into their “personal protection toolbox.” This course is for anyone unwilling to be victimized due to not understanding their vulnerability to threats. For those that are keen on avoiding dangerous encounters and recognize the value of using situational awareness to know how to identify potential hazards prior to the incident taking place.

MAC Level II:

• The Great Debate: What caliber should you be shooting? (Muzzle energy, knock-down power, terminal ballistic hits, penetration)
• The Response Gap and Defensive Accuracy (action versus reaction and the 21’ rule – fact or fiction?)
• EDC Discipline Mindset 201: Cooper’s Color Code, being deliberate and intentional in Everyday Carry, unconditional winning and rejecting failure as an option)
• EDC Discipline Firearms Mechanics 201 (Proper firearm retention and carry positions, drills incorporating inert munitions, fundamentals of effective shooting review, emergency, and tactical reloading)
• EDC Discipline Marksmanship 201 (Deviation Control, basic firing drills, target acquisition, and an introduction to intuitive defensive shooting)
• Legal Use of Deadly Force – public versus home defense threshold comparison
• Less than lethal and alternative weapons options
• Firing Positions (standing, sitting, supine, kneeling)
• Precision Shooting (deliberate orbital shooting)
• Minimizing Muzzle Movement and Recoil Control
• Principles of Personal Defense (composed, remorseless, speed, decisiveness, finishing the fight)
• Optics and Lights
• Violent Encounters (how to condition yourself and understanding your autonomic physiological reactions)
• Tactics 100:
  • Utilizing cover (firing from barriers) and maximizing distance
  • Concealment (maintaining contact without compromise)
  • Movement: Tactical (balance and firing while moving) versus withdrawal (all out, flat out)
• Threat Assessment (Likelihood versus Consequence)
• Levels of Competency (The Five Levels of Competency)
• Know Thy Adversary (Thugs, Drugs, and Criminals)
• “Words Matter” (De-escalation semantics and kinesics postering)
• Intermediate Situational Awareness, Near / Distant Intelligence and Behavioral Analysis (kinesics, heuristics, biometrics, and proxemics)

Location / Training Environment: This course is a two-day course and takes place in Upstate South Carolina in the classroom and on the range. The classroom portion will take place at the National Guard Armory at 150 Speedway Drive, Fountain Inn, SC then proceed to the range near Honea-Path, SC.

1. Day One. 60% classroom 40% range.
2. Day Two. 100% range.

Equipment Required:

1. Firearm (pistol or revolver).
2. Ammunition (dummy, snap cap, inert 10 rounds)
3. Ammunition (full metal jacket 400 rounds)
4. Eye protection
5. Hearing protection