If you are concerned about personal protection, and the defense of self or others, these courses can help you:

The NRA Refuse to be a Victim Seminars teach the basic knowledge, skills, and attitude for developing a strategy for one's personal safety. The seminar includes classroom instruction on a variety of crime prevention strategies, from criminal psychology to automobile crimes to cyber crime. Seminars can vary in length, and may be modified to suit the needs of a particular audience. This is not a firearms instruction course, and does not include instruction in physical combat self-defense.

The NRA Basic Personal Protection In The Home Course teaches the basic knowledge, skills, and attitude essential to the safe and effective use of a handgun for protection of self and family, and to provide information on the law-abiding individual’s right to self-defense.

The NRA Basic Personal Protection In The Home Course participants must be law abiding, adults (at least 21 years old), and experienced shooters (shooters able to show mastery of the basic skills of safe gun handling, shooting a group, zeroing the firearm, and cleaning the firearm) to maximize what can be learned from this course. Proof of shooting experience can be one of the following: NRA Basic Pistol Course Certificate, NRA FIRST Steps Course Certificate, NRA pistol competitive shooting qualification card, military DD 214 with pistol qualification, or passing the Pre-Course Assessment.

Students may also choose to rent handguns and ammunition from the school for a modest price.

The NRA Basics of Personal Protection Outside The Home course teaches the basic knowledge, skills, and attitude essential to the safe, effective, and legal carry of a handgun on one's person for the purpose of self defense. Students must be at least 21 years of age, and have demonstrated the defensive pistol skills presented in the NRA Personal Protection in the Home course. Prospective participants can demonstrate that they have the requisite knowledge, skills, and attitudes by producing an NRA Basic Personal Protection In The Home Course Certificate, or by passing the pre-course evaluation.