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Upcoming Events and Courses

August 29th-30th: Survival Pistol for the Female Officer (Bend, OR)

The purpose of this 2-day class is to improve the female officer's shooting performance as it relates to surviving a lethal encounter. Through intensive range work the female pistol operator will increase her ability to deliver her handgun efficiently and effectively particularly in the area of shooting with speed.

September 15th-20th: International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors (IALEFI) (West Palm Beach, FL)

The Annual Training Conference (ATC) is IALEFI’s annual seminar providing informative individual classes and dynamic live fire range exercises that are topical, relevant, and dependent to law enforcement, military, and private sector firearms instructors. Topics include: Handguns, Shotguns, Rifles, Defensive tactics, and Armorers courses. Experts from across the international law enforcement training community are invited to introduce and expand your knowledge in current firearm tactics, skills or evaluate the need for additional training and equipment. These trainers encourage you to adapt their information to in-service training for your department. The ATC will also provide you with the opportunity to meet, network, exchange information, and ideas with fellow firearms instructors. You will also have the opportunity to see and evaluate firearms-related products and technologies presented through corporate sponsors and manufacturers’ displays.

September 21st: BUILDING WARRIOR WOMEN WORKSHOP (Coconut Creek, FL)

This 4-hour WOMEN’s ONLY interactive workshop is beginner friendly, while providing valuable information for all experience levels. Lou Ann Hamblin will customize this workshop to accommodate the interests of the students, with the ultimate goal of teaching advanced skills and tactical knowledge in a women’s-only training environment.

September 22nd: Shooting and Moving Workshop (Okeechobee, FL)

The purpose of this workshop is to improve shooting performance through minimal classroom and maximum range time. This class is fast paced and will focus on advanced skill-building drills as it relates to moving and shooting with a handgun as a solo operator as well as with a teammate. Tactical communications and dynamic movement with single and multiple targets, as well as fun competitions for “cash and prizes.”

October 2nd-4th: Tactical Rifle for the Female Officer (St. Amarillo, TX )

This class is designed to improve the female officer’s overall rifle handling and shooting performance. Through intensive range work the rifle operator will increase her ability to deliver her patrol rifle efficiently and effectively.

October 14th: Survival Pistol for the Female Officer (San Antonio, TX)

The purpose of this 1-day class is to improve the uniform and plain clothes officer's shooting performance as it relates to surviving a lethal encounter. Through intensive range work the pistol operator will increase their ability to deliver their weapon system efficiently and effectively particularly in the area of shooting with speed. Performance based focus areas include problem solving, single hand shooting, expeditious stoppage clearing and reloading.

October 17th-18th: Tactical Pistol Responding to the Active Killer (Granbury, TX)

This 2-day class is designed for officers and armed professionals who may not have immediate access to a long gun while responding to an active killer situation. For situations that require precision at greater distances and crowded environments, engaging targets while moving as a sole respondent and with a partner. The class is applicable to school resource officers, detectives/plain clothes, probation and parole, armed security, and off-duty police officers. Case studies will be reviewed and converted into range exercises.

October 19th: Developmental Marksmanship-Pistol (Anahuac, TX)

This 8-hour course will be delivered with minimum classroom and maximum range time. It will focus on in-dept, detailed, skill-building for shooting with accuracy. Individual assessments will take place as well as homework assigned for continued improvement. Coach-shooter techniques will be used to better understand the intricacies of shooting with precision. The goal of this class is for the performer to raise their personal level of understanding as it relates to hitting their intended target repeatedly and to self-diagnose when they do not. This is a low round count with each round fired as a sniper shot.

October 20th: Shooting and Moving Workshop-Pistol (Anahuac, TX)

The purpose of this workshop is to improve shooting performance through minimal classroom and maximum range time. This class is fast paced and will focus on advanced skill-building drills as it relates to moving and shooting with a handgun as a solo operator as well as with a teammate. Tactical communications and dynamic movement with single and multiple targets, as well as fun competitions for “cash and prizes.”

October 28th-29th: Instructor Development-Understanding and Teaching Female Shooters (Elizabethtown, PA)

This 2-day class is designed for officers and armed professionals who may not have immediate access to a long gun while responding to an active killer situation. For situations that require precision at greater distances and crowded environments, engaging targets while moving as a sole respondent and with a partner. The class is applicable to school resource officers, detectives/plain clothes, probation and parole, armed security, and off-duty police officers. Case studies will be reviewed and converted into range exercises.

November 1st: Building Warrior Women Workshop (Heritage Guild of Easton, PA, EASTON)

his is a customized 4-hour training event designed by women, for women. Typical areas of discussion include: Building Your Personal Arsenal Travel Safety Situational Awareness and Using the OODA Loop Disaster Preparedness Effective Communications Defense vs. Offense Tactics • Confessions of an Aging Warrior Woman • Realistic Training for You and Your Family

NOVEMBER 2nd: Advanced Holster Workshop (HERITAGE GUILD OF EASTON, PA, EASTON)​

The purpose of this workshop is for the handgun carrier to challenge themselves by exploring various shooting positions to include work inside of a motor vehicle and operating around other people in order to understand muzzle awareness. Drawing from concealment techniques will include both one-and two-handed drawing, and re-holstering from different types of concealment options and drawing while moving.

November 2nd: Integrating Control Devices Workshop (Heritage Guild of Easton, PA, EASTON)

Working through the use of force sliding scale is the primary premise of this class. Oftentimes working to get to the gun is required in defending oneself. Managing other items and transitioning from one tool to the next might also be required. “Integrating Control Devices” to include concealment/covert carry options

NOVEMBER 3rd: Women's Defensive Handgun (HERITAGE GUILD OF EASTON, PA, EASTON)​

Practical close-quarter skills, barricades, use of flashlights. Skills that would be required in a defensive situation including properly using cover. $175.00. 2 hours of classroom, 2 hours of range work. ear and eye wear. Handheld flashlight.

December 2-3: Developmental Marksmanship for the Female Shooter (Loxahatchee, Fl)

The purpose of this class is to improve shooting performance through minimal classroom and maximum range time. This class will focus on skill-building drills as it relates to developing the fundamentals of handgun management and marksmanship and mastering the new FDLE pistol qualification course of fire. Individual assessments will take place as well as homework assigned for continued improvement.

December 4-5: Developmental Marksmanship for the Female Shooter (Loxahatchee, Fl)

The purpose of this class is to improve shooting performance through minimal classroom and maximum range time. This class will focus on skill-building drills as it relates to developing the fundamentals of handgun management and marksmanship and mastering the new FDLE pistol qualification course of fire. Individual assessments will take place as well as homework assigned for continued improvement.

May 10-14th, 2025: PUBLIC SAFETY BICYCLE INSTRUCTOR TRAINING COURSE

The purpose of this course is to qualify police, fire, EMS and private security and military participants to: Conduct safe and credible in-service basic and refresher bike training to include specific patrol and response duties. Prepare and deliver bicycle-related educational courses relative to the community and their agency. Enhance the delivery of their organization’s service to their client and their community via the bicycle. Evaluate and maintain their agency’s bicycle equipment. Evaluate and consult on policies and current operations for their organization.

Featured Classes

Public Safety Courses

Public Safety Courses are available to Sworn/Credentialed Police, Fire, EMS, Private Security, and Active Duty Military Participants. *Pre-approval is required for non-sworn applicants via LouKa, LLC.

Responsibly Armed Citizens

Designed to demonstrate the importance of individualized protection through situational awareness and personal safety training. The ultimate goal is to build a culture that understands how defensive tools, and proper training, can enhance one’s personal safety and the safety of their loved ones.

What People Are Saying

"Lou Ann Hamblin is one of the finest trainers I have ever worked with. She has a keen understanding of how the human organism functions both physically and mentally and it shows in her cutting edge training programs. Lou is so much more than a firearms instructor; she is an innovator! She not only builds programs, she solves problems. She has spent her adult life training law enforcement officers and there are quite a few still alive due to her trend setting training. I am quite pleased she has decided to bring her hard learned lessons to the armed citizen arena. Listen to what she has to say... she will give you the confidence needed to PREVAIL against extreme odds"

I've known Lou Ann Hamblin for many of the long years she has been teaching law enforcement. Lou Ann has shown herself to be a superb instructor at the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers and the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association seminars I've attended.  She was a tremendous asset when she served on the panel of experts on firearms and deadly force training that I chair annually for the latter organization. A gifted instructor for students of all genders, she is particularly skilled at teaching female students in both physical skills and mental attitude. After many years of urging her to train law-abiding armed citizens as well as police, I am delighted to learn that she is finally doing so and am not at all surprised at the excellent reviews she is earning in those classes.  Highly recommended!

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