There are a lot of people walking around with a badge, a carry permit, or both, who have never actually been taught to shoot....

There are a lot of people walking around with a badge, a carry permit, or both, who have never actually been taught to shoot. They’ve been taught to qualify. Those are not the same thing. Paul Costa has spent nearly two decades in law enforcement watching that gap up close. As an assistant range master responsible for firearms training for over 700 officers, he had a front-row seat to what institutional training produces: people who can pass a course of fire on a known range, under no stress, with no time pressure that matters, and who haven’t meaningfully developed as shooters in years. He decided somebody needed to close that gap. The Institutional Training Problem Nobody Wants to...