Mission Statement
Atlanta Firearms Training seeks to provide the student with the highest quality firearms training available in the North Georgia area through education of the mind and training the body in the use of firearms for personal enjoyment, competition, and proficient and effective self-defense uses. |
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Your Atlanta Firearms Training Co-Owners are We have a long history of love for the shooting sports. We have been involved with firearms since high school and over the years have used firearms for both hunting and in competitive shooting sports. Why did we decide to get into the firearms training business? Simple: We love the sport of shooting and have so enjoyed competitive pistol and rifle shooting that we want to provide others the opportunity to safely experience the sport of shooting and to build proficiency for self-defense use should that become necessary. Shooting is FUN and we find there is great satisfaction and a sense of achievement in reaching proficient levels in this sport. We want to share this experience with you! Additionally, we have observed many individuals at the ranges we use demonstrate unsafe firearm handling skills - behaviors that endanger both those individuals and others around them. The FBI, in their 2007 crime report estimates that the private ownership of firearms is growing at a rate of 2.5 million firearms a year. Our observations and this statistic show an obvious need to offer expert, effective firearms training at affordable prices to new and current owners of firearms. We enjoy working with people and enjoy providing instructional services. | 
Co-Owners Tom Lipscomb and Brian Wilson |
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Both of us are airline pilots by trade and have extensive experience and formal training as both civilian and professional airline instructor pilots with associated FAA instructor certifications. With a combined total career as professional aviation instructors of over 30 years, we bring this expertise in training individuals in the dynamic, complex, and potentially dangerous activity of flying to the shooting sports arena. Building on proven instructional techniques developed by the National Rifle Association, we enhance this effective approach with the insights from decades of giving aviation instruction. We emphasize fun with safety in our approach to training, using proven instructional methods, patient individual attention, and positive feedback to help you achieve your training goals. We promote a disciplined approach to developing the safety mindset and achieving basic and advanced proficiency in firearms handling skills. We are both certified as and can offer NRA Approved Courses in pistol, rifle and shotgun. We are also certified - an organization sponsoring combat pistol skills competitions. Our Safety Officer Training and experience provides us with the ability to effectively conduct live fire training sessions with the highest levels of safety. Through these activities we have long experience at working with and ensuring the safety of students and competitive shooters. Come shoot with us and let us show you the way to better proficiency and higher safe gun handling standards.
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Tom Lipscomb - Qualifications and Courses.
- NRA Certified Pistol Instructor
- International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA) Range Safety Officer
- NRA Expert Level - Pistol
- International Defensive Pistol Assc. SSP Master
- Three Day Instructor Development Course - RangeMasters Memphis TN
- Rangemaster Tactical Conference - 2008
- Tactical Response - Basic Fighting Pistol
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Brian Wilson - Qualifications and Courses:
- NRA Certified Pistol Instructor
- NRA Certified Rifle Instructor
- NRA Certified Shotgun Instructor
- NRA Certified Rangemaster
- International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA) Range Safety Officer
- NRA Expert Level - Pistol
- IDPA Sharpshooter Level
- Three Day Instructor Development Course - RangeMasters Memphis TN
- Former Bullseye Target Rifle Competitor
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| Sam Eads - Qualifications and Courses
- NRA Certified Pistol Instructor
- International Defensive Pistol Association Range Safety Officer
- NRA Expert Level Pistol
- International Defensive Pistol Shooter Sharpshooter Level
- Rob Pincus Combat Focus Defensive Pistol Course
Sam Eads came to us orginally as a student seeking to get an edge in combat pistol competitions. In the weeks and months afterward, Sam competed with us in combat pistol matches. We were struck by his easy going nature, consideration and friendliness toward others, and, after qualifying as an IDPA Range Safety Officer, the professionalism he showed to fellow competitors as he ran them through the courses of fire. We were also impressed by the dedication Sam showed in developing his practical pistol skills. We soon were discussing how good he would be as an instructor and eventually asked him to come on board. He has not disappointed us. |
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Tom Mulheron - Qualfications and Courses
- NRA Certified Pistol Instructor
- NRA Certified Rifle Instructor
- NRA Certified Shotgun Instructor
- NRA Certified Range Safety Officer
- NRA Certified Personal Protection in the Home Instructor
- International Defensive Pistol Range Safety Officer
- IDPA SSP Master Combat Pistol Shooter
- Lethal Force Institute Threat Management Course
- Thunder Ranch Defensive Handgun
- Defensive Training Intl Defensive Handgun
- Defensive Training Intl Defensive Rifle
- OPS Surgical Speed Shooting
- CSAT Tactical Rifle
- Defensive Trng Intl Advanced Defensive Handgun
- Rogers Shooting Tactical Pistol /Carbine
Tom came to our attention as an IDPA Safety Officer. As part of this cadre, we were able to observe Tom's work ethic in volunteering on the set-up team and were able to observe his professionalism interacting with both team members and with the competitors as he ran them through the courses of fire. When Tom evinced an interest in coming on board we readily laid claim to his expert instructional skills and his genuine enjoyment in working with others.
Tom first started shooting after watching the shooting venues at the Atlanta Olympic Games and soon found a mentor who started him on the path to achieving Master Combat Pistol Shooter qualifcation in a very short period of time. As all of the AFT Instructors, Tom regularly attends other training in the furtherance of his shooting qualifications. |  |
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Chris Avery Qualifications and Courses
Chris enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1982 at the age of 17. During his rifle qualification at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, SC, he shot a score that held the recruit record for more than 12 years. At the qualification course conducted during Infantry Training School, he shot a perfect score of 250 and was recruited by the Scout Sniper School at Quantico, Virginia.
Chris completed the course successfully and was assigned to the Fleet Marine Force, serving in Reconnaissance Battalion and Force Reconnaissance units and is both parachute and SCUBA qualified. After his active duty commitment, Chris served in a Force Recon reserve unit and was deployed to Iraq during Operation Desert Storm where he was awarded the Combat Action Ribbon while conducting both Close Quarters Battle and sniper missions.
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Chris later joined the Army National Guard and was again deployed to Iraq in 2006. During this deployment, he conducted extensive Close Quarters Battle operations as well as direct action sniper missions against IED emplacers in his Task Force’s Area of Operations. His personal decorations earned during this deployment include the Bronze Star Medal and the Combat Infantry Badge. Chris not only has the benefit of the best training available anywhere in the world but also the combat experience that validates and refines that training. He is willing to share that with qualified individuals through one-on-one instruction.
Chris teaches Advanced Tactical Carbine courses, and Long Range Marksmanship Courses for Atlanta Firearms Training with weapons that include the, AR-15/M4 Carbine, Remington 700 Rifle, and the Barrett .50 cal sniper rifle.
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