Karl just sent this out. I thought it worth the repost.

KR Training will be hosting legendary trainer Massad Ayoob on March 8-9 for his MAG-20 course.
It’s the classroom part of what used to be called his LFI-1 class (Lethal Force Institute).

In my opinion, training with Mas is something that should be on every credible instructor’s resume.
Back in the early 90s, when I first started teaching, I flew to Oregon to take LFI-1 because (a) I thought it was important to do and (b) there were no LFI courses offered anywhere near Texas.

It’s 20 hours of classroom lecture. We’ll be holding it in Austin, at a nice, big meeting room (Red Oak Ballroom at Northcross Mall), and we’ll have catered food both days.

Mas is the #1 expert in the country on armed citizen legal issues. There isn’t anybody else in the training business that offers anything similar. If you train with Mas and you get into a shooting incident, he will come work on your legal defense if needed. If you are an instructor and one of your students gets into a shooting, odds are very high that you will get called to court to testify about the training you provided. Being able to reference Ayoob’s training and his curriculum as part of your own training may have significant benefits.

Live fire classes are more fun, but the mistakes that land people in court (or jail) are almost never live fire errors. It’s not poor marksmanship or a slow draw that results in criminal charges; it’s doing or saying the wrong thing, or shooting the wrong person. The core topics of the MAG-20 course are covered in the Texas CHL curriculum, but MAG-20 goes into much more detail and depth — depth you should understand if you are teaching those topics yourself to others.

It’s very unlikely that I’ll host Mas again in 2015, and this is his first class in Austin, ever, and one of the very few he’s offered in Texas in a long, long time. So this is not one of those “I’ll go when he comes next year” situations.
It’s a special event, possibly a one-time opportunity to attend without having to travel out of state.

Tuition is $450, which includes lunch and snacks both days. We will do a working lunch each day.

Registration is open on the KR Training website.
http://www.krtraining.com/signup.php
$225 deposit required in advance, per our typical 50% deposit policy.