Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Rick Ector Takes Issue with Dearborn Police Chief on Red Flag Laws

Rick Ector Takes Issue with Dearborn Police Chief on Red Flag Laws

Earlier today, I had an opportunity to appear on NRATV's "Cam and Company" to push back against the recently published anti-gun commentary by the city of Dearborn's police chief. 

Check out the Dearborn police chiefs foolishness and my response to it!

https://www.nratv.com/videos/cam-and-company-2018-rick-ector-detroit-news-consults-gun-expert
About The Author
Rick Ector is a National Rifle Association credentialed Firearms Trainer, who provides Michigan CCW Class training in Detroit for students at his firearms school - Rick's Firearm Academy of Detroit.

Ector is a recognized expert in firearm safety and has been featured extensively in the national and local media: Associated Press, UPI, Fox news, New York Times, USA Today, Bearing Arms, NRAnews, Guns Digest, Tactical-Life, The Truth About Guns, The Politics Daily, Fox News Detroit, The Detroit News, The Detroit Examiner, WJLB, WGPR, and the UrbanShooterPodcast.

For more info about free shooting lessons for women and Michigan CCW Classes, please contact:

Rick's Firearm Academy of Detroit
Web: http://www.detroitccw.com.
Email: detroitccw@gmail.com
Phone: 313.733.7404

If this information was useful for you, would you please make a small recurring donation to support this site?





PSA: If you carry a firearm for self-defense, you need to protect yourself by having a membership in a Firearm Legal Program. To see the plan that I belong to, click this link now!

Rick Ector to Counter Dearborn's Police Chief on Red Flag Laws - NRATV

Rick Ector to Counter Dearborn Police Chief Views on Red Flag Laws

Later today - at 4:20 pm EST, Rick Ector will make an appearance on NRATV's "Cam and Company!" 

He will be giving his feedback on some public comments recently made by Dearborn's Police Chief on the subject of his proposed changes to Michigan's gun laws. In short, Red Flag Laws are bad news for the due process rights of gun owners. Listen to the show and I will tell you why.

Watch "Cam and Company" over the Internet at 4:20 pm EST.
About The Author
Rick Ector is a National Rifle Association credentialed Firearms Trainer, who provides Michigan CCW Class training in Detroit for students at his firearms school - Rick's Firearm Academy of Detroit.

Ector is a recognized expert in firearm safety and has been featured extensively in the national and local media: Associated Press, UPI, Fox news, New York Times, USA Today, Bearing Arms, NRAnews, Guns Digest, Tactical-Life, The Truth About Guns, The Politics Daily, Fox News Detroit, The Detroit News, The Detroit Examiner, WJLB, WGPR, and the UrbanShooterPodcast.

For more info about free shooting lessons for women and Michigan CCW Classes, please contact:

Rick's Firearm Academy of Detroit
Web: http://www.detroitccw.com.
Email: detroitccw@gmail.com
Phone: 313.733.7404

If this information was useful for you, would you please make a small recurring donation to support this site?





PSA: If you carry a firearm for self-defense, you need to protect yourself by having a membership in a Firearm Legal Program. To see the plan that I belong to, click this link now!

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

NSSF Covers Rick Ector's FREE Shooting Event for 700 Women

NSSF Covers Rick Ector's FREE Shooting Event for 700 Women

The National Shooting Sports (NSSF) covered Rick's Ector annual free shooting event for women on Sunday, May 20th. 

At that event Ector, along with about 50 other fellow firearm trainers, gave 700 interested women a complementary safety briefing and a shooting lesson. The event was covered by the NSSF. 

Check out their coverage!
About The Author
Rick Ector is a National Rifle Association credentialed Firearms Trainer, who provides Michigan CCW Class training in Detroit for students at his firearms school - Rick's Firearm Academy of Detroit.

Ector is a recognized expert in firearm safety and has been featured extensively in the national and local media: Associated Press, UPI, Fox news, New York Times, USA Today, Bearing Arms, NRAnews, Guns Digest, Tactical-Life, The Truth About Guns, The Politics Daily, Fox News Detroit, The Detroit News, The Detroit Examiner, WJLB, WGPR, and the UrbanShooterPodcast.

For more info about free shooting lessons for women and Michigan CCW Classes, please contact:

Rick's Firearm Academy of Detroit
Web: http://www.detroitccw.com.
Email: detroitccw@gmail.com
Phone: 313.733.7404

If this information was useful for you, would you please make a small recurring donation to support this site?





PSA: If you carry a firearm for self-defense, you need to protect yourself by having a membership in a Firearm Legal Program. To see the plan that I belong to, click this link now!

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Rick Ector Interviewed by WXYZ at Event Training 700 Women on Guns for FREE

Rick Ector Interviewed by WXYZ at Event Training 700 Women on Guns

On this past Sunday - May 20th - Rick Ector conducted a free firearm safety class for 700 women. The training session taught basic firearm safety skills and concluded with each woman discharging a handgun at a target.

This event required 50 volunteer firearm instructors, a donated range, a ton of ammunition, and eager students. The event was a qualified success.

Watch this attached news report to get all the details.

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About The Author
Rick Ector is a National Rifle Association credentialed Firearms Trainer, who provides Michigan CCW Class training in Detroit for students at his firearms school - Rick's Firearm Academy of Detroit.

Ector is a recognized expert in firearm safety and has been featured extensively in the national and local media: Associated Press, UPI, Fox news, New York Times, USA Today, Bearing Arms, NRAnews, Guns Digest, Tactical-Life, The Truth About Guns, The Politics Daily, Fox News Detroit, The Detroit News, The Detroit Examiner, WJLB, WGPR, and the UrbanShooterPodcast.

For more info about free shooting lessons for women and Michigan CCW Classes, please contact:

Rick's Firearm Academy of Detroit
Web: http://www.detroitccw.com.
Email: detroitccw@gmail.com
Phone: 313.733.7404

If this information was useful for you, would you please make a small recurring donation to support this site?





PSA: If you carry a firearm for self-defense, you need to protect yourself by having a membership in a Firearm Legal Program. To see the plan that I belong to, click this link now!

Rick Ector's Michigan Concealed Pistol License (CPL) Class - Saturday, June 2nd - Tuition $149 - 10am

Rick Ector's Michigan Concealed Pistol License (CPL) Class - Saturday, June 2nd - Tuition $149 - 10am

We are pleased to announce our next Michigan Concealed Pistol License CCW/CPL Class!

Class DATE: Saturday, June 2nd, 2018 - RSVP NOW

If you have a desire to qualify for a Concealed Pistol License (CPL), so that you will become safe, register for our next class.


Everyone claims to be the best. I am going to show you why we are the best.

Our classroom sizes are limited to ensure a proper learning environment. You will be comfortable asking questions that are most pertinent to your situation. We understand that being stuffed in a sardine can with 50 other students leaves much to be desired.

Our legal module is taught by a credible practicing criminal defense attorney. The legal module will NOT consist of an attorney - who never actually practiced law - lecturing on your duties, rights, and responsibilities under the law on a DVD.


Your safety and freedom deserve much better. Other providers, if they teach the law at all, only offer up their unprofessional and untested opinions. Our attorney is also a regular subject matter expert featured on the news and local talk shows.

I daily receive phone calls from students who took the $50 classes and short-changed themselves. The irony is that is that instead of calling their original trainer, they end up calling me. By this time, all I can do is refer them to competent counsel and hope that the amount of trouble they get into is minimized.
You have a choice: pay just a little more now for a superior class or pay a ton more later.


We provide one-on-one shooting supervision in the shooting booth. We understand that you need expert instruction on the safe operation of a pistol from a whisper away. Unlike the others, we do not have one instructor who watches five students on the range at the same time. We are right there with you each and every step along the way to ensure that you are safe while learning.

Finally, our Chief Instructor actually teaches the class. He does not rely upon the playing of out-of-date and boring DVDs as a substitute for quality and up-to-date instruction. Our training is a 100 percent live and entertaining presentation which ensure that you fully grasp and understand the material well after you leave the classroom. My students see for themselves how fast the GroupOn classes are over before we reach the half-way point of our class.

Our Chief instructor has been training citizens, such as yourself, for over ten years with a 100 percent safety record. We are especially adept at training first-time shooters, women, and seniors. We are not fly-by-night operators. We have seen many training providers come and go over the last decade.

Only quality Instructors have staying power. We are here for the long haul. So, if you ever have a need for follow-up, you know that you can find us - even if it is five years later.

If you want the best instruction, you have to be taught by the best. You deserve it, your family deserves, and your safety at home and out in the streets requires it. Don't be penny-wise and pound foolish with your safety. Go with the best. Me.

When my students call me, they are referring family members and friends to take our class. When graduates from other training classes call me, they were failed by their instructors and need serious legal help. Get it done right the first time.

Saturday, June 2nd, 2018
Location: L.A.I.D. HQ
30305 Schoolcraft Ave.
Livonia, MI
10am Start
Tuition ($149)


Range expenses will be incurred at the range to handle gun rental, range time, ammunition costs, and a fee for a target. The estimated fee is $35.

Chief Firearm Instructor Rick Ector is a recognized expert in firearm safety and has been featured extensively in the national and local media: New York Times, Associated Press, UPI, USA Today, Fox News, NRAnews, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, National Public Radio, "Let It Rip," the Detroit Metro Times, Guns Digest, Tactical-Life, The Truth About Guns, The Politics Daily, Fox News Detroit, The Detroit News, and the Detroit Free Press.

Ector has the following NRA Certifications: Training Counselor, Chief Range Safety Officer, Home Firearm Safety, Pistol, Shotgun, Rifle, Personal Protection I, Personal Protection II, Shotgun Shell Reloading, and Metallic Cartridge Case Reloading.

Recent Awards and Honors Bestowed to our Chief Instructor include the following:

- Ector was featured in a new nationally broadcast 9-part NRA series entitled "The DL with Dana Loesch" in early 2017.

- Ector was featured as a Gun Rights Advocate in the Comedy Central Special entitled "Jordan Klepper Solves Guns" in mid-2017.

- Ector was named as a 2016 "Defender of Liberty" by the Second Amendment Foundation at the Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC) in Tampa, FL.

- Ector was named the 2014 MCRGO Guns Rights Advocate of the Year.

- Ector was named the Keynote Speaker of the 2014 Michigan Second Amendment March.


Do NOT Take Our Class If...
- You don't want a 2 hour live lecture from a respected and practicing criminal defense attorney on the law. You will learn the law!
- You are comfortable with up to 60 sixty students stuffed into a classroom. In my class you will be comfortable.
- You don't want to be one-on-one with a Firearm Instructor in the shooting booth with you.
- You are not willing to spend at least 8 hours in class to get the best possible start as a CPL-holder.

If you want to take the best CPL Class, enroll in our class:

RSVP NOW: Saturday, June 2nd, 2018

Sunday, May 20, 2018

Rick Ector Speaks About Training 800 Women at the "March For Our Rights" Rally in Lansing

Rick Ector Speaks about Training 800 Women at the "March For Our Rights" Rally in Lansing

On the day before his annual training program which introduced women to firearms, Rick Ector was an invited speaker at this year's "March for our Rights" rally at the Michigan Capitol Building in Lansing. 

Ector told the audience that he was inspired to create his program when he heard about a murdered woman's body being discarded on the street. That year, he trained just 50 women - without cost - how to safely operate a firearm. Tomorrow's program - 7 years later -  seeks to introduce 800 neophyte females to shooting.

This unprecedented and original program relies upon the cooperation of fellow firearm trainers and generous donations of supporters to deliver this needed service to metro Detroit women.

If you would like to support this program please make a donation via PayPal to the following email address: detroitccw@gmail.com

Thank you.
About The Author
Rick Ector is a National Rifle Association credentialed Firearms Trainer, who provides Michigan CCW Class training in Detroit for students at his firearms school - Rick's Firearm Academy of Detroit.

Ector is a recognized expert in firearm safety and has been featured extensively in the national and local media: Associated Press, UPI, Fox news, New York Times, USA Today, Bearing Arms, NRAnews, Guns Digest, Tactical-Life, The Truth About Guns, The Politics Daily, Fox News Detroit, The Detroit News, The Detroit Examiner, WJLB, WGPR, and the UrbanShooterPodcast.

For more info about free shooting lessons for women and Michigan CCW Classes, please contact:

Rick's Firearm Academy of Detroit
Web: http://www.detroitccw.com.
Email: detroitccw@gmail.com
Phone: 313.733.7404

If this information was useful for you, would you please make a small recurring donation to support this site?





PSA: If you carry a firearm for self-defense, you need to protect yourself by having a membership in a Firearm Legal Program. To see the plan that I belong to, click this link now!

Saturday, May 19, 2018

Rick Ector Speaks at the "March For Our Rights" Rally in Lansing

Rick Ector Speaks at the "March For Our Rights" Rally in Lansing

Earlier today, I was a featured speaker at the "March For Our Rights" political rally at the Michigan Capitol Building in Lansing. 

As such, I shared the stage with Michigan State Senator Pat Colbeck, who is currently running for the office of Michigan Governor. Also appearing were Mr. Bobby Powel (The Truth Is Viral) and author Mr. Marcus Weldon who penned the book "The Santa Shooter."

This event was locally organized by Denis Poplawski.
About The Author
Rick Ector is a National Rifle Association credentialed Firearms Trainer, who provides Michigan CCW Class training in Detroit for students at his firearms school - Rick's Firearm Academy of Detroit.

Ector is a recognized expert in firearm safety and has been featured extensively in the national and local media: Associated Press, UPI, Fox news, New York Times, USA Today, Bearing Arms, NRAnews, Guns Digest, Tactical-Life, The Truth About Guns, The Politics Daily, Fox News Detroit, The Detroit News, The Detroit Examiner, WJLB, WGPR, and the UrbanShooterPodcast.

For more info about free shooting lessons for women and Michigan CCW Classes, please contact:

Rick's Firearm Academy of Detroit
Web: http://www.detroitccw.com.
Email: detroitccw@gmail.com
Phone: 313.733.7404

If this information was useful for you, would you please make a small recurring donation to support this site?





PSA: If you carry a firearm for self-defense, you need to protect yourself by having a membership in a Firearm Legal Program. To see the plan that I belong to, click this link now!

Rick Ector Shares the Stage with Michigan Candidate for Governor at Gun Rights Rally

Rick Ector Shares the Stage with Michigan Senator at Gun Rally

Earlier today, I was a featured speaker at the "March For Our Rights" political rally at the Michigan Capitol Building in Lansing. 

As such, I shared the stage with Michigan State Senator Pat Colbeck, who is currently running for the office of Michigan Governor.
About The Author
Rick Ector is a National Rifle Association credentialed Firearms Trainer, who provides Michigan CCW Class training in Detroit for students at his firearms school - Rick's Firearm Academy of Detroit.

Ector is a recognized expert in firearm safety and has been featured extensively in the national and local media: Associated Press, UPI, Fox news, New York Times, USA Today, Bearing Arms, NRAnews, Guns Digest, Tactical-Life, The Truth About Guns, The Politics Daily, Fox News Detroit, The Detroit News, The Detroit Examiner, WJLB, WGPR, and the UrbanShooterPodcast.

For more info about free shooting lessons for women and Michigan CCW Classes, please contact:

Rick's Firearm Academy of Detroit
Web: http://www.detroitccw.com.
Email: detroitccw@gmail.com
Phone: 313.733.7404

If this information was useful for you, would you please make a small recurring donation to support this site?





PSA: If you carry a firearm for self-defense, you need to protect yourself by having a membership in a Firearm Legal Program. To see the plan that I belong to, click this link now!

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Over 600 Women Registered for FREE Shooting Lesson on This Sunday!

Over 600 Women Registered for FREE Shooting Lesson on This Sunday!
Registration is now open for the Ladies Day Free Shooting Lesson! The event will occur on Sunday, May 20th, 2018.

Currently, 600 women are registered! We have matched last year's tally at this time.

There are roughly 200 spots left! If you are interested in this free firearm lesson for women, you are strongly urged to sign up now!
Free pre-event registration must be done online. Please do not call. Registration is now open! Register NOW!
Ladies must sign up for ONLY one training session. You will receive an e-ticket via email. Please use a good email address.
The registration URLs are listed as the following:
Session 2: 11:30am - RSVP here:
https://rick9mm.eventbee.com/event?eid=187065815
Session 3: 1:30pm - RSVP here:
https://rick9mm.eventbee.com/event?eid=187365915
Session 4: 3:30pm - RSVP here:
https://rick9mm.eventbee.com/event?eid=147566012
All women will be instructed one-on-one at a range while they shoot a handgun. All guns, ammo, and range time will be free of charge!
All women will receive a Range Safety Briefing so they will receive proper instruction.
There will be free give-aways at the event. All women will receive a free gun lock.
All women will receive informational packets from the NSSF.
All women will receive vouchers for free range time at a future date at the Top Gun Shooting Range.
A limited number of free T-shirts from Firearms Legal Protection will be given away!
A limited number of free tote bags from the NRA-ILA will be given away!
A limited number of L.A.I.D. T-shirts will be on sale for $20 - $30, based on size. Cash only please.
Sign up now!
About The Author
Rick Ector is a National Rifle Association credentialed Firearms Trainer, who provides Michigan CCW Class training in Detroit for students at his firearms school - Rick's Firearm Academy of Detroit.

Ector is a recognized expert in firearm safety and has been featured extensively in the national and local media: Associated Press, UPI, Fox news, New York Times, USA Today, Bearing Arms, NRAnews, Guns Digest, Tactical-Life, The Truth About Guns, The Politics Daily, Fox News Detroit, The Detroit News, The Detroit Examiner, WJLB, WGPR, and the UrbanShooterPodcast.

For more info about free shooting lessons for women and Michigan CCW Classes, please contact:

Rick's Firearm Academy of Detroit
Web: http://www.detroitccw.com.
Email: detroitccw@gmail.com
Phone: 313.733.7404

If this information was useful for you, would you please make a small recurring donation to support this site?





PSA: If you carry a firearm for self-defense, you need to protect yourself by having a membership in a Firearm Legal Program. To see the plan that I belong to, click this link now!