These courses are offered by the
LFI Staff Instructors from Firearms Training Associates
Massad Ayoob's Lethal Force Institute

Judicious Use of Deadly Force

Massad Ayoob designed the Lethal Force Institute Introduction to Deadly Force class as an extract of the key lecture portions of his famous 40-hour LFI-1 course, considered the national standard for training law abiding armed citizens in the use of lethal force in self defense.

The class goes far beyond Ayoob's famous book "In the Gravest Extreme," long accepted as the authoritative text on use of deadly force. "I can't control who reads a book," says Ayoob. "There are certain strategies that, put in print, could become a blueprint for face to face confrontations."

This course is open only to those persons who have proven to us that they've passed a criminal record or character background check.

Strategies include taking suspects at gunpoint, interacting with witnesses at the scene of a shooting or drawn gun incident, and interaction with responding and interrogating police officers.

Other material covers tactics for dealing with armed robbers, home invaders, rapists, muggers, carjackers, and other assailants. Selection of optimum firearms, ammunition, and holsters and other accessories are covered but not emphasized. This is a software class more than a hardware class, devoted to the legal, ethical, and moral parameters of defending oneself and others with lethal force. The two points of emphasis are "street survival" and "court survival." Throughout, the thrust is on developing a mindset that allows you to cope with life-threatening stress while remaining totally defensible in a court of law. Judges and attorneys who've taken the class say that the deadly force training therein exceeds that taught in law school; police instructors who've taken this two-day, intensive weekend lecture-and-video program agree that it goes far beyond the police academy as well.

This course is the lecture portion of LFI-1 and is open to civilians as well as law enforcement. (The two-day Stressfire course is required to become eligible for full LFI-I certification, subject to passing the written exam and police-type live-fire qualification.) There is not a prerequisite for this class. Massad Ayoob teaches this class

Please visit our friends from Firearms Training Associates to view their calendar of upcoming StressFire or Judicious Use of Deadly Force courses (which may be held in locations all over the state).