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As a certified Master Gunsmith, NRA Master Instructor with multiple specialty accreditations and FFL holder, Armstec is uniquely qualified to help you find, customize or repair, modify and safely, effectively USE your firearm of choice.
There are numerous reputable sites online where you can search for and buy firearms, new or used. The drawback is that once you click on 'buy', their assistance ends. You pay the price, they ship the item to your local FFL, and the cycle is complete. You now have a weapon you've never seen, handled or operated. This is certainly NOT the optimal situation to be in with a tool your life or someone else's may depend upon at some point.
A rudimentary knowledge of the weapon can be acquired with enough searching online, but at the end of the day, nothing can compete with hands-on, actual use and instruction WITH THAT WEAPON. Some people have a wide enough experience background to 'figure it out', but in recent years, many gun buyers are first time or less experienced shooters, and may hesitate in taking an unfamiliar weapon to an unfamiliar range and simply stumble through it's operation.
We have 24 hour/7 day access to a closed, private, secure range with 8 covered bays ranging from short range pistol to extreme long range rifle, as well as a classroom and a wide array of scenario training equipment. We can create indoor, outdoor, low or no light, daylight, bench rest or combat/self defense situations allowing you to learn your weapon in the environment you anticipate using it in. Whether indoors in low light at 9 feet or from a rest at up to 800 yards, you will complete your training feeling confident, and being safe and competent in any scenario likely to be encountered in 'real life'.
Those uncomfortable in a group or seeking more specialized training can get one on one, private instruction that fits with THEIR schedule, and learn what they want to learn in a zero pressure, comfortable atmosphere (and at lower prices than most 'gang' classes). In all reality, most people do not need to practice 'run and gun' or 'room clearing' to effectively defend them self or their family, so why would they choose to spend the time and money on a defense course that contains such training? Extra training is always, ALWAYS a good thing, but it is more important to be confident and competent at each and every underlying level first, and not jump ahead to accelerated training before mastering the basics.
The facilities we use also enable you to decide, in a real world situation, if modifications or customization of your weapon would be beneficial to you, and immediately put them to use. Much money and time is wasted by new weapon owners ordering often very expensive 'toys' for their weapons that actually will provide little if any added functionality for their purposes. In many cases, as these things are added, the weight and complexity of the weapon escalates to the point that it is no longer cost effective or even reasonable to actually USE it. The absolute BEST training anyone can obtain with a particular weapon is frequent and consistent practice. If the mall ninjas (people who obsess and over-modify their weapons) invested half of that money into ammunition and targets, and put the other half in the bank, they would not only be better off financially, but their skill level and safety/comfort levels would soar.
A weapon that has become too expensive, too complex, or too heavy to COMFORTABLY be used regularly is of no benefit to anyone other than it being shown in the gun case at home. We try to illuminate the difference between gun owners and shooters, and if safety and security are among your concerns, you surely want to be on the 'shooter' side of the scale. A shooter is capable of safe, effective, accurate and consistent use of his weapon; a gun owner may or may not even really be able to use his. To be sure, there is room for both types, but ownership alone requires no training - one must just have more money than brains.
At Armstec, we prefer to go heavy on the brains and take it easy on the money. Shooting is not fun if it means you need another mortgage to support it, or feel guilty after a session due to the cost. Firearms should be the tools, not the mall ninja holding them.