A few weeks ago, we mentioned that the anti-gun extremists at Everytown were ready to launch their own gun “safety” course. We speculated—somewhat jokingly—that the first step would be to discourage gun ownership. After all, the group has spent years promoting restrictions on law-abiding gun owners that can only impede and discourage gun ownership. It’s their obvious reason for being.
Well, the course has launched, and according to one report, our “joke” was pretty close to a bullseye.
Lee Williams, who many in the pro-2A movement know as “The Gun Writer,” recently took Everytown’s 1.5 hour, $20 video class called “The Smart Guide to Buying a Gun.” He summed up his experience by saying, “It is definitely not firearms training. It’s not even close.”
So, what was wrong? Quite a bit.
Williams notes that the “instructors” in the video he watched just offer their first names and never reveal where they received their training to teach a course on firearms or what (if any) training credentials they actually possess.
Anyone who has undergone a course from an NRA certified instructor, or virtually any other reputable firearm training program, knows that real instructors let you know exactly who they are — last name included — and proudly divulge all of the training they have received. That’s important if you want to know if your instructor is well-versed in the discipline you’re hoping to learn.
I doubt anyone would want to pay to learn MMA techniques from some guy who just goes by “Steve,” and merely assures you, “Hey, I know what I’m doing.” Nor would you trust your child to learn defensive driving skills from “Bob,” when all he will tell you is, “Trust me, I do this all the time.”
Besides the lack of transparency regarding who these “instructors” are and why you should listen to them, Williams reported other glaring problems.
There’s the telling “liability warning” before the course even starts, which includes the statement, “If you require specific advice or expertise about your use, possession or ownership of a firearm, please consult a qualified professional or consult your local law enforcement.”
Williams wonders if this is meant to imply Everytown’s instructors are not “qualified professionals,” which does not inspire confidence. It is probably not a good idea to take a course in what Everytown says is “Firearms Training” if the instructors are not “qualified professionals.”
The course also offers what Williams describes as “an incredibly fictional group of statistics.” What he relates sounds like typical, boilerplate anti-gun messaging disguised as “facts.” Among the absurd statements Williams reports is the repeatedly debunked claim that, “Since 2020, guns have been the leading cause of death for children age 1 to 17.”
This has become a go-to claim for anti-gun extremists, and it’s so misleading that even the Washington Post has seen fit to Fact Check it.
Another seemingly outlandish claim mentioned is, “[W]hen a male (domestic) abuser has access to a firearm, the risk that he’s going to shoot and kill a female increases by 1,000 percent.” The source for this is given as the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV), and while the name of the organization certainly sounds positive, a quick perusal of the NNEDV website shows the group supports a number of anti-gun proposals.
That “1,000 percent” claim appears to be derived from an anti-gun document created by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health—a “school” funded with hundreds of millions of dollars from anti-gun billionaire Mike Bloomberg, who also funds Everytown. And even though this source material appears to be little more than a very biased, misleading product from a known anti-gun source, it still does not substantiate that claim.
Williams also noted this “Firearms Training” course encouraged keeping all firearms unloaded at all times; suggested racism influenced how police interact with different gun owners; downplayed the benefits of many home security measures (alarms, doorbell cameras, fences, etc.); and indicated adopting a dog would be a better safeguard against intruders than buying a gun.
In other words, someone interested in acquiring a firearm is told to render it useless for self-defense (the most popular reason people purchase firearms); if you are black, think again, because you may run across a racist cop; and rather than get a gun and secure your home with proven crime deterrents, count on your cockapoo to save the day. (We admit they didn’t single out cockapoos, and we mean no offense to any cockapoo-owning Second Amendment supporters.)
What was the proverbial icing on the cake? The course, when describing guns to consider (if you haven’t succumbed to their discouragement ploy), never mentioned the venerable AR-15 or similar semi-automatic rifle platforms. Again, the course is called “The Smart Guide to Buying a Gun,” yet it ignores some of the most popular firearms in America today.
Thus, to whatever degree our original reaction to the idea of Everytown “firearm training” could be characterized as knee-jerk or judgmental, it appears to have been vindicated by this first-person account. We suggested they might present guns as more dangerous to own than any benefit they might offer for personal protection, and that about summarizes what Lee Williams described. We also thought they might focus more on anti-gun indoctrination than firearm safety, and that seems to track as well.
If anything, we might have even overestimated the degree to which the course would incorporate ordinary standards of professionalism and validate gun ownership to any degree. Certainly, marginalizing gun ownership remains a huge concern for Everytown’s rank and file supporters. Since we originally reported on their outraged reaction to the new program, a number of them have continued to vocally denounce the organization for “training” people to own guns they believe Everytown should instead be trying to demonize.
To summarize, if there’s any takeaway from the Everytown “training” course a gun owner or potential gun owner should pay close attention to, it’s their own disclaimer. Anyone “require[ing] specific advice or expertise about your use, possession or ownership of a firearm” should ignore what Everytown has to say and instead “consult a qualified professional[.]” For help doing just that, visit https://firearmtraining.nra.org/student-courses/.
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“성매매단속”
Crackdown on prostitution?
Are you effing kidding me???
A girl’s gotta make a living somehow! 😉
(I sh!t you not, that’s the direct translation)
Probably no surprise, but “갱뱅” translates to “Gangbang”…
“And even though this source material appears to be little more than a very biased, misleading product from a known anti-gun source, it still does not substantiate that claim.”
That’s what they do. They create these things from their own sources that created them from other anti-gun sources or known junk science paid study’s they paid for and are full of errors and omissions and bias.
And just by matching pictures and first name on their web page I’m leaning towards at least one of their faux instructors being a convicted child predator and another one having been convicted of fraud. That kinda tracks though, around half of the Everytown employees have some sort of criminal record.
Update for all those folks who are against the 21 year old age limit, here’s some information on responsible gun ownership by the younger crowd:
“In addition to the tragic shooting death of Airman Brayden Lovan and the subsequent death of Airman Marcus White-Allen, the base has seen two more fatal incidents involving assigned airmen. On August 16, Senior Airman Joshua Aragon was killed at an off-base apartment in Cheyenne, Wyoming, when Airman 1st Class Jadan Orr allegedly fired an AK-47 rifle through a wall, fatally striking Aragon. Orr was charged with involuntary manslaughter and pleaded not guilty, with the case ongoing.
Later, on September 30, Airman 1st Class Marcus Evan Jackson died in what local authorities ruled as a murder-suicide in Fort Collins, Colorado. The Larimer County Coroner’s Office officially ruled the incident a murder-suicide stemming from domestic violence. Jackson, 20, died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, while the victim, 18-year-old Alyssa Paige Reardon, succumbed to a gunshot wound the following day.“
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/airman-investigation-m18-incident-found-dead/
Update for the information on responsible gun ownership by left wingers: Tyler James Robinson, Robin Westman, and a few thousand individual-case-victims incidents before them this year so far, and about 53,000 on social media platforms threatening to do the same including organized groups training to do it mass-scale.
News Flash: Miner49er once again doesn’t understand context.
Millions of civilians 18 – 20 exercise their constitutional right with firearms and do not shoot anyone, and a lot more in some cases age 16 – 18 also do it and do not shoot anyone, and kids as young as 6 sometimes do it too and do not shoot anyone. Thousands in the military under age 21 use firearms and do not shoot anyone. And, Miner49er thinks we decide inherent constitutional rights based upon something bad someone else does and for some yet unexplained mysterious Miner49er reasoning we are all suppose to go “Oh no, people under the age of 21 can not exercise their inherent second amendment right responsibly so lets deny people under age 21 their constitutional right.”
Something tells me Miner49er doesn’t have the slightest idea of what constitutional rights actually are.
Not reading link, even if remotely accurate it’s not relevant and purchase age should be as low as 12 based on responsibility.
MajorSkidmarks,
We all knew you hated the military, there was no need to tell us. So riddle me this, you hypocritical gasbag – If they are so ‘irresponsible’, why are you Leftist/fascists so intent on sending them overseas as cannon fodder?? Hypocrisy, thy name is Leftist..
miner. Still functioning as Trump’s greatest ally, I see.
In the case of the on duty airman being killed with his issue weapon. His age did not matter. The weapon was issued.
And you left out the ages of all involved in these incidents.
Wannabe Kings Commit The Most Outrageous Gun Confiscation Yet!
“A New Jersey man, Elsid Aliaj, just filed a federal lawsuit after his guns were seized when his wife was mistakenly hospitalized — even though he did nothing wrong. The state refused to return his firearms and is now trying to permanently revoke his rights. This could be one of the most outrageous Second Amendment violations yet.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdEzGOmP8zI
BIG 2A WIN: Universal Background Checks Defeated-But State AG Hiding Next Move Until After Election.
“The Commonwealth of Virginia has just seen a landmark victory for private firearm transfers — a permanent injunction halts enforcement of the universal background check law for private transfers (VA Code § 18.2-308.2:5).”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZwzElru8H4
[‘Secret’ internal] USPS Gun Memo LEAKED! Conceal Carry Post Office Legal?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvwQyFPR-YQ
“Everytown for Gun Safety” – the people who donated $200,000.00 to and endorsed Dem Jay Jones the wanna be murderer who texted that his political opponents should be murdered and their children murdered. After Jay Jones’ murder text messages got disclosed the Everytown hypocrisy was exposed and they quietly removed their page endorsing Jay Jones and scrubbed all references to it – but, here’s the thing, they have not stopped endorsing Jay Jones and have not asked for the $200,000.00 back. But that’s what Everytown and all anti-gun groups do, hiding the facts to deceive just like they do in their anti-gun propaganda.
Everytown, on their Instructors page for this faux training, has several ‘instructors’ listed. None of them reveal their full names, the qualifications listed are either not verifiable or are not representative of qualifications for being a ‘firearms instructor’, or both not verifiable and not representative of qualifications for being a ‘firearms instructor’ .
One of them ‘Crystal’ did a series of videos on the Colorado Parks and Wildlife youtube channel entitled “My First Big Game Hunt” and worked for them (2015-2020 – according to the Everytown ‘Train Smart’ page. Then there is this about ‘Crystal’ > “She logged four years of service on the board of a national hook-and-bullet conservation nonprofit that introduces hunting to people of color, and is a certified hunter education instructor and range safety officer.”
Note here the “on the board of A national hook-and-bullet conservation nonprofit”. It turns out that ‘hook-and-bullet’ although there is a single organization by that name, there are a bunch of ‘hook-and-bullet’ affiliate conservation nonprofits. Now remember “on the board of A national hook-and-bullet conservation nonprofit” so the question here is which one of those ‘hook-and-bullet’ affiliate conservation nonprofits is she with, and who ‘certified’ her to be a ‘hunter education instructor and range safety officer’.
Then there is another of their ‘firearm instructors’ called ‘Bianka’ her main qualifications are “a queer, Black, and Mexican conservationist who found purpose in the outdoors. She holds a B.S. in natural biology from the University of Illinois at Chicago and completed her Master’s in environmental management at Western Colorado University with a focus on sustainable and resilient communities.” and she also works for some undisclosed ‘national hook-and-bullet conservation nonprofit’ and its claimed she is “a hunter education instructor and a proud gun owner” – like ‘Crystal’ above, she is not a qualified certified ‘firearms instructor’.
[note” ‘sustainable and resilient communities’ is mostly the biggest scam among the very soft ‘faux science’ of ‘environmental management’. Its not what you think. But anyway, heck, I’m an actual scientist, physics, I can ‘instruct’ someone on how to use a firearm but my degrees and science does not make me a ‘certified’ ‘firearms instructor’ like Everytown is trying to present ‘Bianka’ and ‘Crystal’ and all the rest.]
See, this type of stuff is all through their list of so called ‘instructors’ – no full names, no verifiable qualifications, no known accepted certifications – its all just basically ’cause we say so’. Then the so called ‘training’ is rife with errors and falsehoods and anti-gun indoctrination and even includes information that can get someone seriously injured or killed. Then they do things to obscure the identity of these ‘instructors’ and the need to verify the validity of the qualifications of their ‘instructors’, for example, this “on the board of A national hook-and-bullet conservation nonprofit” but never tells you which hook-and-bullet conservation nonprofit so there is no way to verify that thus no way to verify the qualifications claimed.
These are the types of things scammers do. People without verifiable names AND qualifications are not ‘firearms instructors’. There is nothing ‘Train Smart’ about this.
Everytown says these ‘instructors’ are ‘certified’ as ‘firearms instructors’ (by virtue of listing the supposed qualifications, and claiming ‘expertise’ on their web page) but do not provide any known verifiable certification or even full names. For example, the Everytown ‘Train Smart’ page claims their ‘certified firearms trainer’ ‘Crystal’ is “a certified hunter education instructor and range safety officer” but being a “certified hunter education instructor and range safety officer” does not mean you are also a ‘certified firearms instructor’ – evidently Everytown does not understand the difference. Everytown ‘Train Smart’ is charging money for this, they are supplying a ‘product’ to the public, claiming certain unique ‘qualifications and certifications’ with people with a specific ‘name’ to sell that product and that is, in effect, the ‘label on the box of the product and the contents’ but it does not disclose the contents – they are required by law to supply the ‘contents on the label of the box’, or in other words the full names and certifications and qualifications of these ‘instructors’ as actual ‘firearms instructors’ so the validity of the ‘label on the box of the product and the contents’ can be determined but they intentionally obscure it on their web page and in their bios of the ‘instructors’. This is deceptive and scam.
More liberal violence and perversion – ‘but but but but it never happens’ we have been told for years by the LGBTQ+ ‘experts and organizations’ : Native American trans pedophile who abused his own son on tribal land will get taxpayer-funded laser hair removal, voice therapy in NC prison after court order.
https://thepostmillennial.com/native-american-trans-pedophile-who-abused-his-own-son-on-tribal-land-to-get-laser-hair-removal-voice-therapy-in-nc-prison-after-court-order?utm_campaign=64470
[note: So far, from 1 October 2022 to 1 October 2025, nationally, there have been ~ 1,670,000 cases of LGBTQ+ people that have been charged with ‘pedophile’ activity (collectively also includes exposure-of-self-sexual-acts to children, sexual slavery, and rape). This includes gay (both male and female) and ‘trans’ (‘trans’ includes male>female and female>male and also includes ‘non-binary’). Of those cases ~63% were ‘trans’ and the rest gay. Prosecution rate varied with jurisdiction but nationally averaged ~8%, because most cases were either dismissed or charges dropped before prosecution or pleaded down to lesser charges. In over 73% of the cases the cases were dismissed or charges dropped because a traumatized child, or discovering parent, could not ‘testify’ as to certain specific events, for example, remember a certain day or time. The rest were either pleaded down to a lessor charge, usually some form of misdemeanor harassment charge, and case later dismissed after a probation or diversion period, or the cases were ‘Nolle prosequi’ which would be usual in ‘LGBTQ+’ ‘prevalent’ areas and blue cities because ‘offender sympathy LGBTQ+’ prosecutors refused to continue prosecution, but usually because witnesses or children afraid and refused to testify for fear of revenge by the offender.]
correction for “1 October 2022”
should have been… 1 October 2024
Clarification for : “The rest were either…”
meaning the ones not in the ~8 that were prosecuted and convicted, and not including the 73% as mentioned above. That ~8% is ~133,600 that were prosecuted and convicted of some offense of ‘pedophile’ activity.
correction for : “…Of those cases ~63% were ‘trans’ and the rest gay….”
should have been …
Of those cases ~63% were ‘trans’ and the rest gay or another ‘letter’ identity in the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
Loudoun Sheriff’s Office Retracts Binary Trigger Claim After Public Backlash.
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After the post was made on Facebook, the gun community rose up in mass to attack the LCSD’s stance on binary triggers. The pressure was overwhelming, and after AmmoLand News reached out to Sheriff Chapman’s Facebook account, the post was deleted. AmmoLand News then contacted LCSD’s public relations officer, Chad Quinn, who confirmed that the post was deleted due to the public backlash from the gun community.
Mr. Quinn stated that after the backlash, the binary trigger charges were not filed against the man. When asked about LCSD saying that the triggers were illegal, the man stated that, in their opinion, the post about binary triggers was accurate. When asked how they concluded that the triggers were unlawful, he indicated that they drew on their extensive experience to interpret the Virginia law.
When we explained how a drop-in auto sear works compared to a binary trigger, the public relations officer stated that the Sheriff’s Department would need to obtain clarification from the Virginia Attorney General’s Office, as he still believed the information in the post was accurate. The fact that a binary trigger could be confused with a DIAS shows the need for education of law enforcement officers.
The LCSD stated on record that no one will be arrested and charged with having a binary trigger in Loudoun County, even though the Department was not willing to concede that they are legal in the Commonwealth of Virginia. This statement gives Loudoun County gun owners a partial win.
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https://www.ammoland.com/2025/11/loudoun-sheriffs-office-retracts-binary-trigger-claim-after-public-backlash/
Everytown firearms training, what a joke, might as well have a rattlesnake teach how to treat a snake bite.