Retirement

I am now officially retired from federal law enforcement. I spent 17 years with the FBI, 6 years with the Diplomatic Security Service, and 4 years with the NYPD, for 27 years of good times. Each agency offered many unique opportunities for development, and I feel privileged to have been able to spend my career the way I did.

Moving forward, I intend to increase both civilian and LE training opportunities and hope to meet and shoot with as many of you as my schedule allows. If any of you guys are also motorcycle riders, even better. I have a few more classes that are being finalized for this year, and then we will already be into next year!

Most of the shooters who come to my classes are using RDS-equipped pistols these days, but iron sights are certainly still represented. One agency I have recently talked to about training is carrying traditional DA/SA autos (at least for the time being). I have to admit that this surprised me a bit, but it was a most welcome surprise. As many of you probably know, I am a huge fan of the DA auto and prefer to carry and shoot that system over all others.

I don’t normally do equipment-specific classes, like “Super-Duper RDS Instructor” or AIWB for the Advanced Underwater Knife Fighting Specialist”, but if there is any interest in doing a class focused on mastering the traditional DA auto, I think that would be a lot of fun. If that sounds interesting to any of you, please drop me a line and let me know.

I should also clarify that while gear-specific classes are not my focus, since there is so much misunderstanding out there about using red dots, I would be happy to do an RDS class for anyone interested in that. Everywhere I go, people are still struggling with aspects of using the dot-equipped pistol and are especially struggling to teach it to shooters who might be charitably described as less interested than they are.

That’s all for now, train hard and stay safe!