A Look Inside Everytown’s So-Called Firearm Training

Everytown for Gun Safety riled up a lot of people by deciding to offer firearm training. Their supporters got all butthurt because they felt betrayed or something, because they never really bought that the group was about gun safety either. Their critics just laughed because it’s sort of like learning to combat drug addiction through a class offered by the Mexican cartels.

But they did it.

I don’t have the remotest desire to dig into the so-called training, but I don’t have to. Lee Williams did and shared his “education” with the world.

Everytown’s new firearm training classes are about as honest and realistic as the journalism produced by its paid staffers at the Trace. In fact, the amount of anti-gun propaganda produced by Everytown’s Train Smart instructors may actually exceed the anti-gun propaganda shoveled out by the kids at the Trace. Suffice it to say, it’s a close race.

The fun began with a 1.5-hour video class called “The Smart Guide to Buying a Gun.” Cost was $20. Students can take the class live or on-demand. There are two additional classes, including an 8-hour trip to the range, which you watch from home.

Nellis and Jake were the instructors. None of Everytown’s trainers provide their last names, which is very telling. Most real instructors provide all of their training and experience in addition to their full names.

Nellis, according to her bio, is “a mother and advocate, she is committed to building safer environments and believes that all children deserve a future free from gun violence.”

Jake’s bio is about as bad: “As an instructor, Jake strives to create welcoming spaces where everyone can learn to feel safer and more confident with firearms.”

Neither of the instructors ever mentioned what their kids actually deserve or how they create “welcoming spaces.”

Besides their missing last names, none of Everytown’s training staff list their actual instructor credentials or even where they were trained, but they are all beautiful people and very diverse, which is probably much more important to the folks at Everytown than their CVs.

Honestly, go read the whole thing, but the super short version is that it starts by parroting anti-gun talking points and even advises people to keep guns unloaded at all times, with Nellis claiming that if you have to use a gun that quickly, you’re unlikely to be able to identify your target successfully.

Which is absolute male bovine excrement.

They also spend time pushing alarm systems and even dogs, claiming that “a lot of self-defense instructors say dogs are better defense against intruders than guns.”

She fails to provide even one verifiable source for that claim.

Williams points out that what actual gun safety information is included is generally cribbed from other sources, such as Col. Jeff Cooper’s Four Rules, and all without any attribution. In fairness, they probably don’t know where they originated because they’re likely unfamiliar with who the good colonel was. They also didn’t show even one AR-15, the most popular model of rifle in the country today.

Shocking, right?

In short, though, the entire “training” is anti-gun propaganda. Neither “instructor,” who I think are probably really more actors than anything else, is shown to know the first thing about firearms, and they’re just repeating the exact same anti-gun talking points Everytown spews at every opportunity.

It’s exactly what we thought it would be.

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