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Complete Home Defense: Training to Protect Your Home and Family
Most defensive gun uses happen in your home or on your own property. Almost no range teaches you how to defend it. This course does, from the front door to the safe room, in more than 8 hours of instruction.
79%
of defensive gun uses happen in the home or on the owner’s property.
2021 National Firearms Survey
82%
end without a shot fired. Your plan matters as much as your aim.
2021 National Firearms Survey
Over half
of burglaries involve forced entry. Locked doors buy time, not safety.
FBI Crime in the United States, 2024
Home is where you're most likely to need a plan, and the hardest place to train
Ranges can’t build a hallway, a kid’s bedroom or a staircase and let you run live fire through it. So most gun owners end up with a gun in the nightstand and no real plan for what happens next.
And home defense isn’t a one-person job. Your spouse, your teenagers and anyone who watches your kids need to know the plan too. Paying for everyone to attend a class, then remembering it well enough to set up your own house, rarely happens.
This course is built for that. Watch it together, pause it in your own hallway, and rewatch the parts you need. One purchase covers every adult in your household.
The curriculum
What's in the home defense course
Three sections, more than 8 hours of instruction, plus seven re-enacted home attacks based on real incidents.
Section 1
Preparing Your Fortress
- Harden the outside. Neighbors, landscaping, exterior lighting and cameras: what helps and what’s just for show.
- Secure every way in. Doors, windows, and the tools that stop forced entry and door ambushes.
- Set up a safe room. What makes a room defensible and what to stage inside it.
- Stage your firearms. Handgun, shotgun, carbine or PCC; safe placement for fast access without giving up security; ammo for indoor use; lights and lasers; improvised weapons.
Section 2
Securing the Advantage
- Use your layout. Fatal funnels, lanes of fire, exits, and why you never corner an intruder.
- Know what stops a bullet. Real tests through drywall, home walls and common furniture.
- Handle everyday situations. Answering the door, repair people, carrying in the home (including off-body), garages, sheds and vehicles, and pets.
- Build a plan your family can run. The 5 fundamentals of home defense, one easy-to-remember response strategy, and a template for your own plan, including teens home alone, babysitters, and realtors showing an empty house.
- Practice at home. How to run safe dry fire sessions in your own house.
Section 3
A Tactical Response
- Fight in low light. Handheld vs. weapon-mounted lights, handheld techniques, and moving through a dark house.
- Move to your family. Clearing rooms, keeping your gun in tight spaces, and winning a fight over it.
- Work as a team. Tactics with a spouse or another trained adult.
- Handle the aftermath. Trauma care for a wounded family member, what to say on the 911 call, and the core use-of-force principles common to most states. (Always check your own state’s laws.)
Section 1: Preparing Your Fortress
- How neighbor relationships can help your strategy
- Maintaining landscaping to minimize risk
- Exterior lighting and surveillance video options and strategies
- Securing entry points
- Tools to prevent door ambushes and forcible entry
- Safe rooms and their attributes
- Where and how to hide and stage firearms for quick access
- Choosing and placing firearm safes to maximize access and minimize risk
- Choosing between carbines, handguns, shotguns and PCCs
- The best tools, accessories and methods for staging each
- Rifle, shotgun and handgun ammunition for home use
- Lights and lasers
- Improvised weapons
Section 2: Securing the Advantage
- Using fatal funnels to your advantage, and not getting stuck in them
- Means of egress and why you don’t corner the animal
- Considerations for wild animals and household pets
- Finding and preparing lanes of fire
- Overpenetration: a real-world test of firearms and ammunition through drywall and home walls
- Preparing detached garages, sheds, barns and vehicles
- The 5 fundamentals of home defense and how to apply them to your plan
- Answering the door and dealing with necessary strangers like repair people
- Why and how to carry a gun in the home, including off-body carry
- What to stage in each safe room
- Barricading your family in a safe room
- Escaping and using the safe room chokepoint
- Clearing rooms and moving through the house to reach loved ones
- One easy-to-remember strategy for dealing with home intruders
- Common objects and furniture that will and won’t stop bullets
- A roadmap and template for building your own response plans
- Running dry fire practice sessions, and applying them at home
- Preparing and teaching teenagers who are left home alone
- Best practices for babysitters and other responsible adults
- Approaching an empty home you’re renting or showing as a realtor
Section 3: A Tactical Response
- Choosing between handheld and weapon-mounted lights
- Techniques for using a handheld light
- Using a light while moving through the home in the dark
- Retaining your firearm in transitional spaces
- How to win a fight over your gun
- Team tactics and working with other trained responders
- Core use-of-force principles common to most states
- Medical trauma care for loved ones
- Placing the 911 call and what to tell dispatch
Bonus: 7 real-world re-enactments
An ambush at the front door. A bump in the night. Moving through a fatal funnel. Clearing the house with your spouse. Identifying who’s actually in your hallway. Each one is based on a real story and teaches what a lecture can’t.
Your instructors
Riley Bowman is Director of Training at ConcealedCarry.com, a USPSA Grand Master and a multi-division Colorado State Champion. He spent eight years with a Colorado state law enforcement agency and is a Colorado POST-certified Law Enforcement and Patrol Rifle Instructor, an NRA Pistol Instructor, and a graduate of the Trident Concepts Concealed Carry Instructor program. He has trained under Rob Leatham, Mike Seeklander, Scott Jedlinski, Dave Spaulding, Kyle Lamb and others.
Jacob S. Paulsen is President of ConcealedCarry.com, co-host of The Concealed Carry Podcast (750+ episodes), creator of the 21 Day Concealed Carry Challenge, and founder of the Guardian Conference. He’s an NRA-certified instructor, Range Safety Officer, Utah BCI instructor and certified Glock and Sig Sauer armorer, and leads a team of more than 50 network instructors in 25 states.
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$84.99
DVD Box Set
Three discs, fully closed-captioned. Ships within 2 business days.
$84.99 + S&H
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Combo: DVDs + Streaming
Start watching today and keep the DVDs on the shelf.
$94.99 + S&H
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Take your low-light skills further
Complete Home Defense covers the low-light basics: choosing a light, handheld techniques, and moving through a dark house. Defense After Dark goes deeper, with 23 lessons on choosing lights, photonic barriers, handheld and weapon-mounted technique, and low-light drills for parking lots, store exits and your own home.
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Home defense course FAQ
Online orders get instant access in your ConcealedCarry.com account. DVDs ship within 2 business days.
Yes. One purchase covers every adult in your household, and we recommend watching it together.
No. It starts with securing your home and choosing a firearm before it moves into movement and response.
No. It covers what most ranges can’t teach, in the setting of your own home, and pairs well with live-fire classes.
No. We cover core use-of-force principles common to most states. Check your own state’s laws, and consider self-defense legal coverage.
Yes. Both the online videos and the DVDs are fully closed-captioned.
You’re covered by our 60-day money-back guarantee.
Text 720-807-9007 or email support@concealedcarry.com, Monday through Friday, 7am to 4pm Mountain.
Have a plan before you need one
You already own the gun. Spend an evening with your family and leave with a plan for every room in your house.