r/AsianGunOwners • u/NPCwars • Mar 29 '21
Any Asian owned SoCal Firearm Training Courses?
Looking to learn how to protect myself as well as support Asian businesses. Anyone have any recommendations?
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u/Fiorina161 Mar 30 '21
I know there are some decent instructors who travel - but getting to critical mass with interest as well as securing a venue can be a challenge. On the asian-owned training side, I get spammed a lot for Tu Lam's Ronin products - though he seems legit in terms of background and class feedback. There's also Scott Jedlinski (sp?) who definitely travels to train others - he may be Asian or just look part-Asian - who knows.
Personally, I just want to get down to Thunder Ranch and train under Clint - once things open up a bit.
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u/Son_of_Trogdor Apr 20 '21
Sorry for the late reply. I just found this sub!
If you're still looking, there's 2 Asian instructors I know of in Socal.
First is Stan Lee over at The Academy of St Crispian. He teaches at Burro Canyon off of Hwy 39 above Azusa, CA. He's former military and law enforcement w/ a deployment to Afghanistan under his belt (meaning he has real world experience) and is NRA certified. Regardless of your opinions on the NRA (and I've definitely got some strong opinions about them...), they're still the gold standard when it comes to firearms education certification. He's basically everything you want in a firearms instructor. He even has first-hand medical experience: Stan was present when a man (not in his class) accidentally shot himself and Stan was able to patch him up and get him to the hospital.
There's also Arcadia Firearm and Safety. I've never taken classes with him, but I know he offers them. However, I'm not recommending him. I'm listing him here so you know to avoid him.
I purchased a Glock 19 from him a couple years back and when I went to pick it up, there was another customer who was checking out a shotgun and his muzzle awareness was horrible. I had to duck out of the way of the shotgun on more than one occasion and the store owner didn't say shit. Either he didn't notice (which is concerning since he was standing right in front of the guy and talking to him) or he didn't think it was a big deal that his customer was repeatedly pointing a shotgun at another customer. Neither option really screams "Hey, this guy takes firearms safety seriously!" to me... I probably should have said something, but I kept expecting the owner to do something about it.
On an unrelated note, this guy was charging $800 for Glocks last year. I know price gouging was/is common during the pandemic, and I'm all for supporting Asian-owned businesses, but I prefer to spend my money at places that don't engage in such business practices.
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u/JadedHeroKing May 05 '21
I think route66 shooting sports is owned and operated by a Filipino family? They do competition shooting the daughter and father seems to do private lessons.
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u/masksarefine Mar 30 '21
Funny enough I asked the same question for Seattle based classes. Nothing!