Conference Schedule

TCHA is continuing its effort to offer excellent education opportunities to LTC licensees, LTC instructors, law enforcement personnel and concerned citizens during the Twenty-First Annual Conference. These programs are designed to improve the knowledge and skills of all gun owners. The goal  is to set a standard of excellence that may become the normal requirement within the LTC community. Several courses will be offered.

The complete 21st Annual Conference Schedule is available here and the detail class descriptions and instructor bios can be found by clicking here.

1. NRA Basic Range Safety Officer Course, by First Sergeant Richard A. Buchfink, Jr., USA, Retired. Note: Pre-registration is required for those desiring to take this course.
2. The 85th Legislature, by TCHA legislative director Larry Arnold
3. Training That Wins: Being Truly Prepared for Armed Self-Defense, by Aaron Marshal & Jamie Labarbera, Guncraft Training Academy
4. Situational Awareness & Making a Window, by Chris Bird, author of The Concealed Handgun Manual and Thank God I Had a Gun, and Bill Davidson, owner of Tac-Pro Shooting Center
5. Medic First Aid CarePlus, by Stephen Bennett, owner of National Personal Defense Academy
6. Interacting with Law Enforcement after a Shooting Incident, by Sheriff Mike Griffis
7. Virtual Tactical Academy, by Austin Davis, Owner and CEO of DavisSeminars.com, Kangaroo Carry, and Virtual Tactics Academy
8. Due Process of Law, by Larry Bloomquist & Capt. Cris Andersen, Texas Law Shield
9. Defensive Tactics for the LTC, by Ken Lewis, Vice-President of the National Protective Services Institute

Each student who completes a course will receive a Certificate of Completion. Students, who hold their handgun license, and complete at least four courses, will receive an Intermediate, Advanced, Master or Sustaining LTC Certificate from TCHA. The certificates will be awarded by mail.

Conference Schedule

Class Descriptions and Instructor Bios

Speakers & Special Guest Range Instructors

The Saturday luncheon speakers will be a representative from the Texas Department of Public Safety and P.J. Hermosa, National Director of Texas Law Shield.

P.J. has been with Texas Law Shield’s Legal Defense for Self Defense Program since the early beginnings. He has worked his way up from a part time Member Services Representative to the position as National Director. P.J. brings unparalleled enthusiasm for members and our cause of offering piece of mind to all gun owners. He was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. At an early age he started his career in the industrial sales industry, where he worked his way into sales management. Always having an entrepreneurial spirit he decided to bring his talents in sales management and business development to small business in his home town. He is a proud father and avid supporter of all of our 2nd Amendment Rights.

Our keynote speaker is Dr. Suzanna Gratia Hupp. She will highlight the Saturday evening banquet. Ms. Hupp witnessed the tragic shooting of 23 people at Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, among them her parents, on October 16, 1991. Ironically she had decided against carrying a small revolver—that could have dramatically changed the day’s events—in her purse that day out of a fear of losing her chiropractor’s license if caught possessing a weapon. In this autobiography, she chronicles her evolution from a small-town chiropractor into a national icon for the right to armed self-defense. Her transformation into a high-profile, gun-rights activist began when her impassioned calls for the right of citizens to carry guns for self-protection thrust her into the middle of the gun-control debate. She repeatedly testified under oath against the ineffectiveness of gun-control laws that, in her opinion, disarmed law-abiding citizens, making them potential victims of criminals who did not obey the law. This position on gun legislation paved the way for a decade-long tenure as a member of the Texas House of Representatives, where, in addition to championing Second Amendment and privacy rights, she served as a member of the House Rural and Veterans and Military Affairs Caucuses, Chair of the House Select Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care, and Chair of the Human Services Committee. She is the author of From Luby’s to the Legislature: One Woman’s Fight Against Gun Control.

The special guest range instructors are Aaron Marshal and Jamie LaBarbera from Guncraft Training Academy out of the New Braunfels, Texas area.

Aaron Marshall has two combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan and is currently a captain in the US Army Reserve. Aaron has trained with multiple weapons systems, from handguns to grenade launchers and heavy machine guns. He has been a firearms instructor, in both military and civilian contexts, for over 12 years. Aaron is the Executive Administrator for Guncraft Training Academy.

Jamie LaBarbera is a former police officer for the Fremont and Oakland police departments. He was also a senior training specialist for the California Motorcycle Training Program, and is a licensed private investigator. He is a POST-certified and NRA Law Enforcement certified firearms instructor. He is the Training Coordinator for Guncraft Training Academy.

Registration

The easiest way to register for the conference is online. You can also register by Mail-In Form. For those who preregistered, you will receive confirmation of your registration by email prior to the event. At the event, please make sure you check in at the registration table to pickup your conference packet and name tag.

• Total Package per person, includes classes, luncheon, and banquet, $129.00 [*See Note Below.]
• Life Members, including all of the above, $99.00 [*See Note Below.]
• Junior rate, including all of the above, $59.00 [*See Note Below.]
• **NRA Basic Range Safety Officer additional course fee, $30.00 (Note: This is a separate cost to cover the cost of the course material for the Friday afternoon Option 1 course route. Please note that taking the course is optional –participants can choose Friday’s Options 2 or 3 routes instead. Additionally pre-registration is required.)
• Range Day-PM, Friday, April 6, not included in the above prices, $30.00
• Range Day-AM, Saturday, April 7, not included in the above prices, $30.00
• For those individuals who will not be attending both days of training:
  • Friday classes only, $30.00 [*See Note Below.]
    • **NRA Basic Range Safety Officer additional course fee, $30.00 (Note: This is a separate cost to cover the cost of the course material for the Friday afternoon Option 1 course route. Please note that taking the course is optional –participants can choose Friday’s Options 2 or 3 routes instead. Additionally pre-registration is required.)
  • Saturday classes only, $30.00 [*See Note Below.]
  • Luncheon only, $30.00
  • Banquet only, $59.00
  • Luncheon and Banquet only, $89.00

[*Note: Does not include the range day or the Friday Option 1 fee for the **NRA Basic Range Safety Officer course material.]

Preregistration is highly recommended and preferred to allow for proper conference planning. Onsite registration at the conference will be available as well; however, a $10.00 late registration fee will be assessed.  The conference registration table, which will be located in the hotel lobby, will be open Friday, April 6, 2018, from 10 am to 6 pm and Saturday, April 7, 2018, from 8 am to 12 pm.

Note: Photographs will be taken at all events and may be published.