Personal Safety Services
Services We Offer
Home Threat Assessment
The home threat assessment is a comprehensive look at your home’s security and defense plan. We come to your home and evaluate the vulnerability of intrusion or burglary. A full evaluation of locks, windows, doors, and other vulnerable areas will be evaluated. Interior and exterior evaluations will be completed. Drone imagery will be provided to fully understand vulnerabilities and a detailed step by step guild will simplify the process of ensuring your home is secure. An in-depth defense plan will be provided and you will receive training on how and when to execute that plan.
- Exterior security evaluation (drone imagery provided)
- Interior security evaluation
- Recommendations on vulnerabilities of your home
- A step-by-step guide with a detailed threat matrix to improve security
- A firearm defense plan
- Training to implement your defense plan
- Firearm selection and considerations for inside the home
- Ammunition selection and considerations
- Gun / Saferoom
- Alarm systems overview
Business Threat Assessment
The business threat assessment is a comprehensive look at your business security and defense plan. We come to your site and evaluate the vulnerability of intrusion or burglary. A full evaluation of locks, windows, doors, and other vulnerable areas will be evaluated. Interior and exterior evaluations will be completed. Drone imagery will be provided to fully understand vulnerabilities and a detailed step by step guide will simplify the process of ensuring your home is secure. An in-depth defense plan will be provided and you will receive training on how and when to execute that plan.
- Exterior security evaluation (drone imagery provided)
- Interior security evaluation
- Recommendations on vulnerabilities of your business
- A step-by-step guide with a detailed threat matrix to improve security
- A firearm defense plan
- Training to implement your defense plan
- Firearm selection and considerations for inside the business
- Ammunition selection and considerations
- Employee training
- Team building training
- Alarm systems overview
Personal Protection Package
10 classes covering firearm basics, concealed carry firearm selection, and car / work / home threat assessments / safety plans / home defense / self defense. Beginner to advanced. Your solution will be totally different than your neighbor’s. Family size and ages, floor plans, construction materials, and budgets all require different approaches and plans. You need a personalized program geared to you and your family situation.
- Firearms readiness
- Tactical readiness
- Tactical decision making
- Critical injury management
- Comprehensive plans for defense
- Scenario walkthroughs
- Home defense planning
- Stay or go decision making
- Defending against threats in cars, garages, while on a walk etc.
Women’s course
This class is designed to address a woman’s fear from the ground up. This is a fully customized course to build confidence in your everyday life. We understand women have different challenges and capabilities than men and with this program will build a customized program to help reduce that fear and build confidence.
- Lethal and non-lethal options
- Situational awareness
- Non dependence on bystanders
- Dark corners and parking garages
- Run, hide, fight
- Firearms skillsets
- Concealed Carry
- Plan of action and immediate action
- Plan A and B failure
Foreign Travel
If you are planning to travel abroad or just thinking about it this course is for you. This course is designed to be prepared for the unknown and have a plan if something goes wrong.
- Situational awareness
- Passport protection
- Consultant and embassy locations
- Travel advisories
- On course travel
Active Shooter / Public Areas
This course is designed to build your confidence and decision making when it counts. It is recommended you are proficient at an intermediate level with firearms and are ready to take your training to a real-world level. This is a one-of-a-kind live training environment That will test your decision-making processes and decision-making ability. It will integrate skillsets you already have and give you a real understanding of what to do during an encounter with an unexpected threat in any environment.
- Tactical planning
- Decision making
- Firearms integration
- Safety plan
Legal Ramifications
This course is designed to build your knowledge on what is legal and what can you do legally to defend yourself, your home, or others with a firearm. It will cover State and Federal laws and walk you through a critical incident step by step from the event, police interaction, attorneys, and civil liabilities.
- Applicable laws relating to the possession, transportation, and storage of firearms
- General guidelines on interstate travel with firearms
- Understanding what constitutes a deadly threat
- What your rights are and how to protect them
- When and what can you do to protect yourself
- Legal resources available, to you in the event of a critical incident
- Laws protecting you, your family, home, and vehicle
Vehicle tactics
This course is designed to prepare you for dealing with threats while in your vehicle or from other vehicles. This is an intermediate level course to provide you the skillsets to deal with a wide variety of threats from road rage to vehicle threats on large crowds.
- Firearms readiness
- Critical decision making
- “So What”
- Situational awareness
- Vehicle vulnerabilities
- Cover vs Concealment
- Advantages and disadvantages
LE/Military
We offer customized training plans to LE/Military. Please contact us for a consultation.
Firearms
Basic firearms safety
The basic firearm safety course teaches weapons safety rules, handling, and general rules for firearms. This course is designed to build confidence on and off the range and enable you to thoroughly understand firearms.
- Responsible firearms ownership and applications of the firearm
- Safe use and handling of firearms
- Firearms safety training for the home, workplace, and vehicle
- Safety concerns and practices while training and while carrying a firearm
- Potential dangers (penetration, ricochet, misidentification, accidental discharges, etc.)
- Ready positions
- Components and operation of modern pistols
- Administrative loading and unloading of pistols
- Fundamentals of basic shooting techniques
- Handgun selection considerations
Equipment and firearms familiarization
The equipment and firearms familiarization course explores the different types of personal equipment and the purpose of the equipment associated to home, range, and personal firearms defense. It covers firearm cleaning and maintenance tailored to the type of firearm you own. It will also cover the types of weapon locks, safes, and storage solutions. The course will discuss and demonstrate the different types of ammunition and what considerations should be taken for ammunition selection in different environments.
- Locking devices and techniques for firearms to prevent unauthorized gun access
- Types, components, and purposes of modern ammunition
- Preventative maintenance (cleaning, maintenance, inspection, and safe storage)
- Selection of a defensive pistol and accessories
- Selection of defensive and training ammunition
Concealed carry
The concealed carry course is designed as an intermediate course that will build upon your pistol skillsets. It is highly recommended that the shooter is comfortable with the firearms and has demonstrated the skills of basic and intermediate pistol requirements. The concealed carry class will build your confidence in carrying concealed and your ability to effectively engage targets from a concealed carry position.
- Discuss the principles of firearms safety
- Safety concerns and practices while carrying concealed
- Researching and choosing a concealed carry firearm
- Discuss various concealed carry equipment and options available
- Clothing considerations when carrying concealed
- Efficiently present the firearm from a concealed carry position
- Properly and effectively clearing cover garments to access firearm from concealed carry holster
- Drawing, shooting and recovering from an outside the waistband holster, no cover garment and cover garment
- Drawing, shooting and recovering from an inside the waistband holster, no cover garment and cover garment
- Drawing, shooting and recovering from an appendix or corset holster, no cover garment and cover garment
- Discuss and implement drawing from a seated position from a concealed holster
- Utilizing cover while carrying concealed
- Discuss scenarios and legalities of concealed carry
Pistols
Basic pistol course
The basic pistol course is the entry level course for new shooters and for those that don’t make it to the range as much as they want to. It will cover the basics to boost your confidence in going to the range without an instructor to continue to build basic skill sets.
- Shooting basics – the importance of proper grip, sight alignment, sight picture, stance, trigger control, and follow through
- Presentation of the handgun from the holster to the target and safe recovery back to the holster
- Administrative and in-service loading and unloading techniques
- Static shooting positions
- Cleaning and maintenance
Intermediate pistol course
This course is for those who are comfortable with firearm safety and basic shooting principals. You will further advance your skillsets past the basic level by improving accuracy with one-on-one instructor support. You will learn to identify and clear malfunctions, reload while shooting, and begin to address move while shooting and address multiple targets.
- Presentations and recovery from the holster
- Sight picture and its relationship to size and distance
- Trigger control
- Shot delivery
- Refining shooting fundamentals
- Reloading techniques
- Malfunction clearance procedures
- Load, reload, and unload a handgun
- Safely and efficiently hit a target with the dominant hand only
- Moving then shooting
- Target to target transition drills
Advanced pistol course
This course incorporates everything learned in the basic and intermediate courses. You will learn to shoot in adverse conditions and environments. The course is designed to encourage you to think past just range shooting and implement your shooting skills into any situation.
- Responsible firearms ownership and defensive applications of the pistol
- Firearms safety that works in the home, workplace, vehicle, in training, and in carry
- Review of tactical communication, searching and scanning, and threat identification
- Dealing with multiple threats
- Turning and shooting
- Shooting while moving
- Non-standard shooting positions
- Utilization of cover and concealment
- Single Hand Only shooting and manipulations
- Intro to Shooting in low-light conditions
- Tourniquet overview and application
- Decision making scenarios with UTMs
Red dot pistol course
The red dot pistol course is designed for the shooter that is transitioning from iron sights or is ready to advance their skill sets with a red dot optic. If you are a new shooter with a red dot these skill sets will be incorporated into the level of firearm training you are currently at.
- Understanding types of red dots and mounting options
- Proper sighting procedure (aka zeroing)
- Equipment maintenance
- Application of marksmanship fundamentals
- Initial sight acquisition
- Holdover/offset
- Advantages and limitations
- Application of marksmanship techniques
- Sight tracking
- Down optic drills
- Variable lighting considerations
- Reloading with a reflexive sight mounted
- Malfunction clearances with a reflexive sight mounted
- Alternative positions
- Shooting on the move
- Using a reflexive sight around barriers
- Single hand shooting
- Single hand manipulation with a reflexive sight
Rifle & Shotgun
Basic rifle course
The basic carbine course is the entry level course for new shooters and for those that don’t make it to the range as much as they want to. It will cover the basics to boost your confidence in going to the range without an instructor to continue to build basic skill sets.
- Choose a carbine and support equipment to support defensive needs
- Operation and function
- Safe handling skills: shoot, reload, and unload
- Carbine manipulation skills
- Marksmanship fundamentals
- Zeroing procedures (iron sights and red dots)
- Positional shooting drills
- Multiple target transitions
- Cleaning and maintenance
- Carbine selection and support equipment review
- Ammunition selection, handling, and storage
- Safe carry, transport and storage
Intermediate Carbine course
This course is for those who are comfortable with firearm safety and basic shooting principals. You will further advance your skillsets past the basic level by improving accuracy with one-on-one instructor support. You will learn to identify and clear malfunctions, reload while shooting, and begin to address move while shooting and address multiple targets. You will begin to incorporate moving and shooting into your skillsets.
- Manipulate the carbine efficiently and effectively
- Improve marksmanship fundamentals
- Utilize ready positions
- Efficiently and effectively reload a carbine
- Ammo management skills / tactical reloads
- Transition from carbine to pistol
- Transition the carbine bilaterally
- Clear malfunctions
- Engage multiple targets with efficiency
- Engage targets utilizing pivots/turns and lateral movement
- Improve accuracy from prone, kneeling, and seated positions
- Properly utilize cover
Advanced Carbine course
This course incorporates everything learned in the basic and intermediate courses. You will learn to shoot in adverse conditions and environments. The course is designed to encourage you to think past just range shooting and implement your shooting skills into any situation. You will push your skills to adapt to real world malfunctions and low light shooting.
- Tactical live fire movements
- Defensive shooting techniques
- Close quarter carbine operations
- Bilateral carbine manipulations
- Immediate action
- Multiple target engagement
- Shooting while moving
- Operating in and around vehicles with the carbine
- Shoot, move, communicate skills
- Low light reloads
- Low light pistol transitions
- Low light positional shooting
- Low light target to target transitions
- Low light malfunction clearances
- Low light barricade shooting
Long Range Rifle course
The long-range rifle course is an advanced level course and is designed to develop and improve your long-range shooting abilities. This course is customizable to your current skillset and previous training.
Shotgun course
The shotgun course is a multi-level level course for shooters and will build on your skillsets. It will cover the basics through more advanced techniques depending on your current skill level.
- Responsible firearms ownership and applications of the shotgun
- Safe use and handling of the shotgun
- Potential dangers (penetration, ricochet, misidentification, accidental discharges, etc.)
- Shotgun selection and support equipment review
- Types, components, and purposes of modern shotgun ammunition
- Administrative loading and unloading of shotguns
- The fundamental of basic shooting techniques
- Shotgun manipulation skills
- Marksmanship fundamentals
- Slug zeroing
- Buckshot patterning
- Static shooting position drills
- Practical application drills
- Preventative maintenance (cleaning, maintenance, inspection and safe storage)
- Positions
- Movement
- Use of cover
- Status checks
- Sustained loading
- Combat loading
- Pistol transitions with realistic malfunction stimulus
- Tactical movement
- Close quarter tactics and retention techniques
- Advanced positional shooting
- Bi-lateral shooting and manipulations
Safety. Dedication. Confidence.
The best investment you can make in your safety is to employ an experienced team to develop a customized solution.
Silent Lake is a Combat Veteran Owned Business. Our instructors are former US Marines and US Army Special Forces with combat experience.
Silent Lake is concerned about your safety and the safety of your family. The dangers are serious. Our top aim is to keep you and your family safe.
Everything is safe and secure…
until it’s not.
Head Office
445 North 700 West
Suite 105
North Salt Lake, UT 84054
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801-455-6484