CCW Class--Excellent, Cheap, and Highly Recommended! (schools, live, law)

[carolina_guy]

Originally Posted by VaTechKA

I spoke with Roy via email and he said that I would need 8-10 people to get together to do a group class. I only know of myself and 1 or 2 others that might want to take it. Would y'all like to get together a group of people to take the class towards the end of July?

You're talking about a private class right? Because I know he does an open invitation ever couple of weeks. His next one is scheduled for July 12. I think he has about 30 seats available on Saturday mornings.

I think it's a great idea though if you can organize a group of City Data peeps! Just tell him Justin and the Redhead sent ya!

[VaTechKA]

Email from Roy:

RIGHT NOW MY CLASSES ARE ABOUT 2 WEEKS APART BUT DUE TO THE HOLIDAYS NOW COMING UP MY NEXT CLASS WILL BE ON JULY 12 STARTING AT 8:30AM AND ARE HELD AT THE MOORESVILLE NATIONAL GUARD ARMORY . MY FEE IS 50.00 FOR GROUP CLASSES AND 125.00 FOR PRIVATE CLASSES. YOU WOULD NEED ABOUT 8 TO 10 FOR A CLASS WHICH COULD BE DONE ON SUNDAY AFTERRNOON OR DURING THE WEEK IN THE AFTERNOON MY TIME IS VERY FLEXIBLE JUST LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU NEED AND WE CAN ARRANGE A TIME

Looks like you can sign on to his scheduled classes or set up one for your own group. I won't be in town on July 12, and I'm not a legal NC resident just yet, so I am gonna have to pass on that particular class haha.

[diamondplayer]

JOB WELL DONE BY HOMEOWNER. Like how the person writing the article injects his own fantasy on how to handle a home invasion. Someone needs to inform him that home invasions happen so fast that you have little if no time to leave your bedroom no less your house. Being pro-active may have saved this couple from certain injury or death. Home invader runs into home defender
Joe DePriest
The sound of breaking glass wakes you in the dead of night. An intruder slips in and begins stalking around the house. There's no telephone in your bedroom, and you can't dial 911.
So you wait – and pray – as the door begins to open.

A nightmare scenario. One that Troy and Becky Howard of Denver, N.C., recently experienced.

This is what Troy Howard did when an intruder opened his bedroom door: He slammed it shut and blasted away with a double-barrel shotgun.

The suspect ran, trailing blood through the house, down the drive and onto Catawba Burris Road. The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office has warrants out for the arrest of 16-year-old Tyler Lee Hice.

Police define a home invasion as a robbery in which someone knowingly breaks into an occupied home with the intent of robbing the people inside, using threats or violence.

According to authorities, most home invasions aren't random; victims and robbers are often connected in some way, directly or indirectly.

Standing his ground

Troy Howard, 71, felt safe.

He and his wife, Becky, had lived in the same house since 1961.

East Lincoln was where Troy Howard had grown up – not far from the legendary Rock Springs Campground started by Methodists nearly 200 years ago.

In the 1950s, when Howard was in the Marines, a grenade explosion damaged his hearing. He wasn't wearing a hearing aid on June 9 when his wife was startled by breaking glass in the carport around 3 a.m.

Nudging him in bed, she whispered in his ear: “Wake up. There's somebody in the house.”

Troy Howard picked up a 12-gauge shotgun from the corner while his wife locked the bedroom door and hid in a closet.

Armed and standing by the door in his new underwear, he remembered he only had two shotgun shells. The rest of the ammunition was in another part of the house.

So was the telephone. He couldn't call 911.

Others might have felt trapped, but not the former Marine. Howard clutched the shotgun, determined to hold his ground.

“I didn't know how many people were out there,” he said. “But I wasn't going to let them come in and kill me and my wife. I was standing like a Marine, ready to charge.”

Through a crack in the bottom of the door Howard saw a light moving in the adjoining room. At the time, he couldn't hear anything. Later, his wife would tell him she'd detected a noise that may have been the intruder removing the door knob with a screwdriver.

Suddenly, the door flew open. And Howard went into action. He jammed the door shut with the shotgun and fired at the same time – twice.

“I decided to go for it,” he told me. “I hollered, ‘Get the hell out of here, you son of a b----.'”

At the urging of his wife, Howard waited about 30 minutes before venturing into the next room. The intruder was gone.

Things were in a mess from the shooting. But he and his wife were safe.

‘We need to know'

What can people do to feel safer at home?

Lincoln County Sheriff Tim Daugherty suggested keeping doors and windows locked; not letting strangers who want to use the telephone into the house; surrounding homes with adequate lighting.

Other options: Install alarm systems and deadbolts, and stock pepper spray and Taser devices. And if you see any funny business going on around your house, call 911.

“We won't fuss at you,” Daugherty said. “We need to know.”

The ideal drill for a home invasion is this: Get out of the house. Let the intruders have it. Insurance can replace your stuff. Look after your own safety – and give investigators detailed information later.

When I touched base with Troy Howard last week, he'd about finished installing an alarm system, along with deadbolts on all the doors. There's a cordless telephone in the bedroom now.

The shotgun blasts made his hearing problem worse, but he expects that will improve with time.

Meanwhile, in the place he'd always felt safe before, Howard will be more watchful.

“It's hard to trust anyone,” he said.

I agree. But I'm hoping for a day when that's no longer true.

[VaTechKA]

That guy is hardcore.

I like his style.

[rg55]

Would you please pass along the class information.......Thanks.

[bassettlvr15]

I would like to get information for a future class date. Thank you.

[spankys bbq]

"The ideal drill for a home invasion is this: Get out of the house. Let the intruders have it. Insurance can replace your stuff. Look after your own safety – and give investigators detailed information later."


*shaking head*



How do the class sizes affect individual instruction? I'm going to get my fiancee and myself signed up for classes and would like to know if a larger class is as efective as a smaller one.

[Ninor]

Actually, running out of the house is about the stupidest thing you can do - assuming you even had time.

MS-13 have been known to place snipers covering the back of the house before the main crew goes in through the front door. So, you run out the back right into the kill zone.

Typical liberal crap...run away, run away.

N

[brownsbacker44]

Anyway, if anyone is interested in his courses, DM and I'll give you his contact information. The course took place at the National Guard Armory in Mooresville and the range test took place about 10 minutes north near exit 42 in Troutman. He offers the CCW class about every 2 weeks.[/quote]
Hey carolina-guy,
I am looking to take the CCW class asap if you can give me the info that would be great. I here alot that the classes are so dry and if he uses humor to get the knowledge out, I'm in.
Thanks, if you could shot it to my e-mail that would be great...

[RandyAH]

Most Excellent Thread...

Better get your CCW while you can...