I’ve taken several classes with John. Most recently last year, in both live-fire and lecture format. It was very professionally run. We also fired at night. He had everyone on-deck safely corralled in one area, whilst the shooters were 180 degrees removed from them, into dedicated fields of fire. It was as safe or safer than any other live-fire class I’ve taken, over the past 25 years.
I’ve read all of his books, going back to his early publications, and I’ve found it all both instructive and historically informative. I’ve dined with John on a number of occasions, and I don’t say much, since he is very entertaining, as you heard on the podcast, and he literally has so many great, gut-wrenching tales of the war, other wars, and policing, that you can’t help but be captivated.
His safety lecture is a bit different than most in that he specifically tells everyone that GUNS ARE NOT SAFE and that’s what makes them particularly useful to us for our given purposes. He also acknowledges that training with firearms is inherently dangerous, and that great care must be taken to avoid people and things from getting inadvertently shot.
Here’s an essay I wrote about the class:
https://civiliandefender.com/2018/02...h-john-farnam/
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