NRA's Personal Protection in the Home

Just completed another firearms instructor course over the weekend. This time it was NRA's Personal Protection in the Home (PPIH). The course goal is: "[To teach] the basic knowledge, skills, and attitude essential to the safe and efficient use of a handgun for protection of self and family, and to provide information on the law-abiding individual’s right to self-defense." It was a good overall course to take. It goes beyond the Basic Pistol course and really engages the class on thoughts about PPIH beyond what is typically just thought of as having a gun ready to use should an intruder make a surprise appearance in your castle.

Beyond the basic foundation from Basic Pistol, PPIH introduces the student to such topics as safe rooms, shooting from positions of cover and concealment, moving to cover and engagement, and pistol/ammo considerations, just to name a few. It should be noted that the PPIH course is pistol centric and the practical shooting exercises support the same. There wasn't any discussion about long guns, namely shotguns like the Remington 870. I do not know why that's not a topic under firearm consideration and selection other than the fact that Basic Pistol satisfies on of the course pre-requirements.

  

The PPIH instructor's course is a good step beyond the Basic Pistol instructor's course. The shooting exercise were more fun and invoked some mental application of skills previously learned in other courses I have been a student. The next course for me is Personal Protection Outside the Home. This should involve more practical and fun shooting scenerios that someone may face when they are carrying concealed and confronting an adversary.