
Firearms training is one of the most important things a gun owner, or even an ordinary US citizen, can do. Receiving firearms training has many benefits that go beyond just knowing how to handle a firearm. Getting experience with a firearm has many benefits if someone ever has to use one, the primary one being that it will help reduce the risk of accidentally injuring yourself and others around you. The firearm is never what causes an accident to occur, it’s the people incorrectly using them. By knowing how to handle a firearm safely, you will significantly reduce the chance of harming someone accidentally. The remaining benefits of firearms training all have something to do with increasing the safety of yourself and others, whether that be from our own mistakes as mentioned above, or from danger.
If you have received firearms training in the past and now have to defend yourself with one, you will have much more confidence than you would have using one for the first time. Using a firearm without any experience is scary if you haven’t had any hands-on experience with one before–you won’t know how to reload it, how to keep it safe when no longer in use, and how to aim properly. Firearms training allows people to get comfortable with using a firearm in low-stress situations where there is no present danger so that when danger does rear its ugly head, they can be ready and confident in their abilities to defend themselves and others from harm. Being confident in your ability to defend yourself is one of the best tools someone can have–it’s empowering.

Additionally, firearms training helps build up the physical strength necessary to use a firearm effectively. Using a firearm requires a certain kind of strength that people wouldn’t ordinarily possess, so by training with a firearm, they are building up the muscle groups required to use a firearm to its full potential. One of the major benefits of gaining this physical strength is that it will help your accuracy immensely because you will be trained to hold a gun steady, even in intense situations. Accuracy, like any other skill, requires practice, so by going through firearms training, over time, your accuracy will improve, which will be very helpful should you ever need to defend yourself.
Lastly, firearms training will also improve your mental strength. Using a firearm effectively requires a very high degree of focus not found in many other applications. Firearms training forces one to hone their mind in ways they simply can’t without the proper training; you have to be completely focused if you wish to use a firearm effectively. By learning how to be focused when using a firearm, you can even apply similar techniques to any situation that may require your full concentration.
Having explained the many benefits of firearms training, one of the best ways to get experience is with the use of a firearms shooting simulator, such as the iShooter laser firearms training system. Using a simulator has a few big benefits when it comes to firearms training. For starters, they are much more approachable for beginners. One of the first things that people learn in firearms training is how to handle a firearm properly. By learning how to do this with a simulator gun–a gun that has no real rounds or way of harming someone–the chances of injury are eliminated and the safety of others is preserved while someone is learning, and this may make using a firearm easier for beginners. This is accomplished by advanced dry fire, which in addition to laser target feedback is utilized in almost all modern shooting simulators. Another great benefit is that it costs much less to use regularly than a standard trip to a gun range considering having to purchase ammunition to continue practicing: no ammo would be wasted unnecessarily. Overall, I feel that firearm simulators are a phenomenal tool to use in firearms training at any level given the many benefits they have over using a traditional firearm to train.