Introducing: The All-New D.A.D. Course

Click Here To See Everything Inside Defense After Dark — Enrollment Closes Wednesday, August 19

Hi, my name is Jacob Paulsen and I'm the President of ConcealedCarry.com.

Today I want to tell you why we built this course, what's actually in it, and why I don't think you should wait on it.

I'll start with the part that's uncomfortable for me to admit.

Of every course we've ever filmed, this is the one that changed the most about what I believed was true

I'm not the instructor on this one. I'm the student.

I have been carrying a firearm and teaching other people to carry for a long time. I had opinions about flashlights. I had techniques I'd drilled. I thought I had this handled, and mostly I thought about it as a small corner of a much bigger subject.

I walked away from filming this rethinking gear and technique I'd been confident about for years. Our own Mitch played the bad guy in the demos, and the first time Riley put a proper defensive beam on him he couldn't see, couldn't judge distance, couldn't make out the car directly in front of him. He wasn't annoyed. He was functionally helpless. That is not what most of us picture when we think about a flashlight.

Here's why we chose this subject

Think about it with me for a minute.

When you picture the moment you'd actually need your firearm — is it noon on a Tuesday in an empty parking lot? Or is it the walk back to your car after dinner, in a lot you don't know, later than you meant to be out?

Is it the middle of a bright afternoon at the gas station? Or the one you stopped at because you were running low at nine o'clock at night?

Is it broad daylight in your driveway? Or the noise that wakes you at two in the morning?

And if you were the criminal — when would you choose? Would you pick the hour when everyone can see your face clearly and identify you later? Or the one where they can't?

The Bureau of Justice Statistics found that 68% of carjackings occurred at night (Carjacking, 1993–2002, published 2004). Nighttime residential burglaries are the ones where someone is far more likely to be home. Robberies, assaults, and sex offenses skew after dark. Darkness is not incidental to violent crime. For a lot of it, darkness is the point.

And yet almost all of us do all of our training on a lit range lane in the middle of the day.

The bigger problem: most of what's being taught is old

Here's what I didn't understand until we made this. Nearly all the low-light instruction floating around the concealed carry world traces back to law enforcement doctrine from twenty-plus years ago. The Harries. The FBI technique. The Surefire method. They were developed around the lights that existed then, for officers working in teams, clearing buildings, following department policy.

You are not a team. You are one person, alone, with a handgun and one light source, and your job is not to clear a building — it's to figure out what's in front of you and decide, in about a second, whether it's a threat.

That is a fundamentally different problem, and it deserves a better answer than a technique inherited from a patrol shift in 1998.

So we went and found the guy who has actually solved it

Dan Brady is a career law enforcement officer with more than 25 years of service and over 20 years as a firearms instructor. He's trained local, state, and federal officers as well as military law enforcement personnel. For the last six years he's been part of the instructor cadre at Apache Solutions in North Carolina, where his focus has been building curriculum specifically for the armed citizen.

Within the civilian training community, Dan is widely regarded as a subject-matter expert on defensive white light. That is a narrower specialty than it sounds, and there are not many people in it at his level.

We brought him together with Riley Bowman, our Director of Training, and filmed for days — in the dark, with real lights, running real scenarios. Noxon and Modlite supported the equipment side so we could put modern defensive lighting to work throughout instead of theorizing about it.

Here's a taste of what you'll learn

Five modules. 23 lessons. Among them:

• Why the biggest number on the flashlight box is the wrong one to shop on — and what to look at instead

• What a photonic barrier is, why it decides who can see whom, and how to work one to your advantage

• Side-by-side demos of high candela versus low, so you can see the difference rather than take our word for it

• How to use your light to gather information while denying it to the person in front of you — instead of accidentally spotlighting yourself

• The handheld techniques that survive contact with stress, and the classics that don't

• What a weapon-mounted light is genuinely good for, and the situations where reaching for it is the wrong call

• How to run a handheld and a weapon-mounted light together without fumbling either one

• The operational features that matter on a handheld light — controls, beam, batteries, carry — and the ones that are marketing

• Light care, maintenance, and the failures that leave you holding a dead tube at the worst moment

• Rifle-mounted light setup, for the gun in the closet you'd actually reach for at 2 a.m.

• Why dry fire is the fastest path to low-light competence, and exactly how to structure it

• A full walk-through of a dark parking lot encounter, start to finish

• What changes when you're leaving a store with your hands full — a scenario almost nobody trains and everybody lives

• Identifying a threat through a photonic barrier, and the legal weight that identification carries

• The Apache Solutions low-light challenge drill, so you have something concrete to go practice

• Where to take it from here, on your own, without a formal class

This is hard training to get anywhere else

Serious in-person low-light classes are rare. They're scheduled around someone else's range and someone else's calendar, they require a night bay that most facilities don't want to give up, and by the time you've paid tuition, burned several hundred rounds, driven or flown there, and put yourself in a hotel for a night or two, a single weekend can quietly become a four-figure decision.

That's assuming a class runs near you at all. For most people, it doesn't.

Two ways to enroll, and a deadline

At checkout you'll choose between the course on its own, or the course bundled with the handheld light Dan and Riley actually run in the demos — plus a second full course included at no cost. Every enrollment also includes a field guide I wrote to sit alongside the training, for when you're standing in a store deciding whether the light in your hand is worth carrying.

All of it is laid out on the enrollment page.

What I do want to be direct about is the deadline. Enrollment at launch terms closes Wednesday, August 19. After that the course goes to its regular price, and the bundle is discontinued permanently — not paused, not brought back next quarter. Gone.

Lifetime access, any device, and a 60-day guarantee. Go through it, run the drills, and if it isn't what you expected, tell our Colorado support team and we'll refund you.

Thank you for reading all of this, and for supporting us during the launch. Your enrollment funds the next course, and the one after that, and it supports the families on our team here in Colorado.

I'd like to thank every one of you personally for that. Since I can't, building you the best training we know how to build is the closest thing I've got.

With gratitude,

Jacob Paulsen

P.S. — Guardian Nation members, this one's already yours. It landed in your membership Friday morning, nothing to buy. The bundle is still the only way to get the light itself, if that's what you're after.

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