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FAQ
Am I safe training with you? We are extremely safety conscious. All classes are run with instructors who are Range Safety Officers (RSOs) or Chief Range Safety Officers. This is in addition to the RSOs at the ranges where live fire instruction takes place. We expect our students will be attentive to and follow all rules and commands. Ignoring or disregarding safety rules or commands will result in removal from the class. Live ammunition is not allowed in the classroom. If you bring your own ammo, leave it in the car until instructed to retrieve it. Defensive Accuracy LLC is an entity recognized by California DOJ as providing comparable handgun safety training to those entities specified by Penal Code section 31635, subdivision (b).
Do you train women? Absolutely.
What is a firearms restriction? Law-abiding persons are generally able to legally possess a gun. However, there are certain actions or conditions that result in the permanent or temporary restriction from possessing firearms or ammunition. For a more complete description of firearms restrictions in California, please go to the Department of Justice website. In particular, pay attention to Dangerous Weapons Control Law § 12021 and 12021.1. If you are subject to a restriction, you cannot train with us.
What can the beginner learn? If you are new to firearms, contact us and we can help you get started in defensive shooting. While our scheduled classes require some firearms experience, we can work with you to quickly get you up to speed and enrolled in a personal protection course.
What can the advanced student learn? If you have been shooting for a while or even carry a gun with your occupation, you might benefit from our personal protection courses to get a fresh perspective on the defensive use of handguns inside and outside the home. If you have previously taken Personal Protection Outside The Home, or an equivalent course, the Advanced Defensive Pistol Shooting Techniques clinic will give you some additional practice and instruction.
Aren’t you all a bunch of rednecks? We don’t like labels and we don’t use them in our courses. Firearms ownership is an individual right for all citizens whether liberal, conservative, left, right, center, Red State, or Blue State. With this right comes responsibility and we recognize that a trained, responsible, and diverse population makes our communities and country safer.
Who developed the courses? Most of our courses such as Personal Protection In The Home and Personal Protection Outside the Home were developed by the National Rifle Association. The NRA training materials included with these courses are excellent resources and the prescribed syllabus for each course is closely followed. All training for NRA courses is performed by NRA certified instructors. One of our courses (Advanced Defensive Pistol Shooting Techniques) was developed by Defensive Accuracy to provide the advanced shooter and graduate of Personal Protection Outside The Home with some additional practice and instruction in engaging reactive targets out of the holster. Sounds like fun, doesn’t it? This is not an NRA affiliated course.
Can I take your course and buy/carry a gun? Well, yes and no. If you take one of our courses and you need a California Handgun Safety Certificate, we can test you and issue a new Certificate to you at no additional charge. All of our students may obtain the California Handgun Safety Certificate (HSC) at the end of the course. The HSC is issued for the State of California to fulfill one requirement for handgun purchases. The HSC requires a separate test over HSC specific topics. View the California Department of Justice Video Guide on the Related Links page and download and read the Study Guide in preparation for the test. If your intention is carry a concealed handgun, California requires a Carry Concealed Weapons permit. The process for obtaining a CCW permit is generally handled by the sheriff in the county in which you reside or, if you live in an incorporated city, the chief of police of the city in which you reside. The issuance of a permit is at the sheriff’s/chief’s discretion and varies widely between counties/cities. However, once issued, a permit is valid throughout California (and only California). Please visit our Concealed Carry page for more information.
Where do you train? We train at the San Leandro Optimist Rifle and Pistol Range and Manteca Sportsmen Inc. Maps and links to these locations are given below. Occasionally, we may provide training at a different location. |
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About Us |
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Larry Behnke, Denise King, Larry DeKam, and Steve Collier (The instructors of Defensive Accuracy) |
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Practical Defensive Firearms Instruction |
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Defensive Accuracy |
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San Leandro Optimist Rifle and Pistol Range, 3001 Davis St, San Leandro CA |
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Manteca Sportsmen Inc. 30261 S. Airport Way, Manteca CA |
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For information about any of the scheduled courses, or to schedule a course or event, contact us at: 209-369-9366
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Do the exterior walls of my house or apartment stop bullets? Probably not. In a demonstration we performed at one of our Advanced Pistol Clinics, we constructed mock exterior walls with sheetrock on the interior side, stucco over lath on the exterior side, and insulation in between. The walls were shot from distances between 8 to 15 feet using 9mm (FMJ and JHP), .40 caliber (FMJ, JHP, and a metal frangible round) , and .45 caliber (JHP and FMJ) handgun rounds from the interior to exterior direction. Of these single rounds of each bullet type for each caliber, only the .45 jacketed hollow point did not completely penetrate the exterior wall. The .45 JHP bullet was stopped by the lath as can be seen in the video below. Finally, three types of .223 caliber rifle rounds were fired from the exterior side towards the interior. As can be seen, all bullet types, FMJ, jacketed soft point, and JHP readily penetrated the wall. So, your exterior walls will not provide effective cover from conventional rifle or handgun rounds and, moreover, this demonstration shows that extra care must be exercised to ensure the safety of persons outside the home in a defensive shooting situation. |
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9 mm Exterior Wall Penetration Test |
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.40 Exterior Wall Penetration Test |
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.45 Exterior Wall Penetration Test |
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.223 Exterior Wall Penetration Test |