TACTICAL TRAINING GROUP LLC

Firearm & Protection Training Center

It is our constitutional right to bear arms as stated in the Second Amendment.  However with that right comes a lot of responsibility that many Americans either ignore or forfeit.  The ability to own and purchase a firearm is only a small part of having knowledge, skill and attitude to safely handle, carry and use a firearm for personal protection.  


This is where we come in here at ASCEND.  We desire not only that you take advantage of your rights but that you do it with training in order to be armed with not only the firearm but the knowledge, skills and confidence of law, safe handling, carrying and firing.  When it comes to firearms training for personal protection we have you cover. 


Let us take you from confused to confident when it comes to selecting a pistol, learning to shoot, conceal carry, and accurately understanding your responsibilities as a firearms owner.


We also offer empty hand training for close protection defense for male and female alike. 


Armed and Unarmed Security Guard coming soon.


View our course catalog below, click the arrow to see descriptions and register for your training now.  The training calendar shows upcoming trainings.

  • NRA Basic Pistol Course

    Basics of Pistol Shooting is intended for all individuals regardless of previous shooting experience or NRA-affiliation and is available for delivery in two ways. This is an instructor-led course where you will receive direct instruction from an NRA-certified instructor from beginning to end. 

    Course topics include:

    • Gun safety rules
    • Safe gun handling skills
    • Proper gun manipulation
    • Basic malfunction training
    • Proper operation of semi-automatic pistols
    • Ammunition knowledge and selection
    • Pistol selection and storage
    • Shooting fundamentals
    • Pistol inspection and maintenance
    • Marksmanship
    • and shooting range safety

    Additionally, students will complete live fire training and a nationally standardized shooting qualification while on the range with an NRA Certified Instructor. Students will receive the NRA Guide: Basics of Pistol Shooting handbook, take a Basics of Pistol Shooting Student Examination and upon successfuly course complete receive a certificate bearing the signature of the NRA Secretary and your NRA Certified Instructor.

     

    Register for your course now, click here.

  • NRA CCW Course

    Teaches the basic knowledge, skills and attitude necessary to carry a concealed pistol for personal defense. The NRA CCW Course is intended for all individuals regardless of previous shooting experience or NRA-affiliation. This instructor-led only course gives you direct instruction from an NRA-certified instructor from beginning to end and may be conducted in a classroom and on a shooting range with an Instructor.

    NRA CCW takes place in a traditional classroom and range environment. This course may be completed in a single day format or 2 days with smaller blocks of instruction. 

    Course topics include:

    • Firearm Safety
    • Pistol Nomenclature and Selecting a Pistol for Self-Defense
    • Basic Defensive Pistol Skills
    • Drawing from Concealment
    • Loading and Stoppage Remediation
    • Mindset
    • and Carry Modes and Pistol Concealment

    Course length and lesson content is determined by the Instructor, to meet your State’s requirements for a CCW permit. Additionally, students must complete live fire training and a nationally standardized shooting qualification while on the range with an NRA Certified Instructor. Students will receive reference books, take a NRA CCW Student Examination and upon course completion receive a certificate bearing the signature of the NRA Secretary and your NRA Certified Instructor which can be used to apply for a conceal carry permit in your state.

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  • NRA Personal Protection Inside the Home

    Teaches the basic knowledge, skills, and attitude essential to the safe and efficient use of a handgun for protection of self and family, and to provide information on the law-abiding individual’s right to self-defense.

    Prerequisite: This course is for law-abiding adult citizens, as defined by applicable federal, state, or local law, and experienced shooters (shooters able to show mastery of the basic skills of safe gun handling, shooting a group, zeroing the firearm, and cleaning the firearm).

    Prospective participants can demonstrate that they have the requisite knowledge, skills, and attitudes by producing an NRA Basic Pistol Course Certificate, NRA FIRST Steps Course Certificate, NRA pistol competitive shooting qualification card, military DD 214 with pistol qualification, or passing the Pre-Course Assessment as administred by an NRA Certified Instructor.

     

    • This is an eight-hour course.
    • Students should expect to shoot approximately 200 rounds of ammunition.
    • Students will learn basic defensive shooting skills, strategies for home safety and responding to a violent confrontation, firearms and the law.
    • How to choose a handgun for self-defense, and continued opportunities for skill development.
    • Students will receive the NRA Guide to the Basics of Personal Protection In The Home handbook, NRA Gun Safety Rules brochure, and course completion certificate.

     

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  • Defensive Pistol Course

    This is NOT an NRA course

    Training on mindset, knowledge, and skills to carry and use a concealed pistol confidence and defensive accuracy.

    Prerequisite: This course is for law-abiding adult citizens ages 18 and up who are experienced gun handlers and shooters able to demonstart the basic skills of safe gun handling, load and unloading, shooting a group, and cleaning the firearm.

    Course Topics:

    • Basic principles of concealment
    • Difference between cover and concealment
    • Drawing from the holster and conceal position
    • Mental awareness
    • Proper mindset when using a pistol for personal protection
    • Clearing common immediate stoppages
    • and much more

     

    Course time will vary depending on level and skillset of student(s)

     

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  • Basic Rifle Skills

    This is NOT an NRA course

    Our course teaches the basic knowledge, skills for the safe handling, use and firing of a rifle at a target shooting.

     

    This is a 5 hour course that includes classroom and range time.

     

    Course topics:

    • basic safe rifle handling
    • rifle parts
    • rifle operation
    • ammunition
    • shooting fundamentals
    • shooting from the bench rest
    • and shooting standing positions

     

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  • Home Firearm Safety

    This is NOT an NRA Course

    This is a four hour non-shooting classroom only seminar which teaches the basic informaiton necessary for the safe handling and storage of firearms and ammunition in the home.

    Course topics:

    • safe gun handling
    • primary causes of firearms accidents
    • firearm parts
    • loading and unloading procedures
    • type of ammunition
    • and safe storage of firearms options in the home

     

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  • Defensive Hand-to-hand tactics

    Our Defensive Tactics System is a subject control system addresses the most common types of resistance you might encounter. We teaches a simple use of force continuum that clarifies the appropriate force level for every level of resistance. 

    Course Goals:

    1. To enhance survivability in combat situations.

    2. To instruct on the effects of survival stress.

    3. To teach instructional methods designed to enhance the ability to learn survival techniques, increase his/her confidence level, and assist in the successful application of physical techniques.

    Course Topics:

    Use of Force Human Factors

    The psychology of survival training, motivational factors for learning survival skills, the neural basis of learning, and the stimulus response training principle.

    Common types of resistance, principles of controlling resistive behavior, survival reaction time, the reactionary gap, and tactical positioning.

    Escort Position and Joint Lock Control

    Pressure Point Control Tactics

    Defensive Counterstrikes

    The Fluid Shockwave Principle of striking, and blocking and striking techniques of the system.

    and more

     

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  • Female Self-Protection

    Signature Program of A.S.C.E.N.D, formally known as "Street-Wise" has been specifically designed to meet the needs of women when control and assault prevention methods are required. Principles and strategies for effectively reducing the likelihood of assault through actual techniques of countering an attack are stressed in this program. This program utilizes efficient and effective methods of subject control that do not rely on size and strength. This program has been developed to be used by any female who is interested in her personal safety. In this course expect the unexpected!

     

     THIS IS A HANDS-ON, INTERACTIVE SEMINAR; This is NOT your run-of-the-mill martial arts female self-defense program.

     

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Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle. - Psalms 144:1