Protecting yourself and your family is not only your Right, it is your Moral Obligation.
Pratt on Texas pistol safety, shooting, and concealed carry classes are taught by licensed Texas CHL instructors, as well as NRA Certified Instructors, Dr. Darla Granberry, M.D. and husband Skip Granberry.
Darla Granberry, M.D.
NRA Certified Instructor
The Granberry’s are respectful, thoughtful, and provide professional peer to peer training. Perfect for women and men who understand the seriousness and responsibility inherent with self defense. Skip Granberry, also an NRA Certified Instructor and Texas CHL instructor, conducts CHL & NRA Certified Basic Pistol Classes as well as shooting instruction. Usually, our students get both instructors in each class providing more personalized service.
“Thank you for recommending the Granberry’s for my CHL class. They were amazing!!” – Jeremy L.
We can help you to:
- determine whether concealed carry is right for you before committing to full training
- feel comfortable with firearms and firearm use
- safely and accurately store and use firearms
- determine what type of firearm is right for you
We’re more than concealed carry & CHL:
- NRA Certified Basic Pistol Classes – the best in safety & effectiveness
- We’ll help you learn how to choose the right handgun for your personal needs
- Private, individual instruction available in all areas
- Texas Concealed Handgun License (CHL) training and range proficiency exam
- Learn about the results of CHL in Texas (pdf)
- Study: Murder rate drops as concealed carry permits rise
- Pratt on the basic introductory class
- Pratt on our Founders position on defense
- New Legislation (2013) for Concealed Handgun Licensing (CHL) program
Courses, Rates and Fees:
Learn To Shoot Safely And Correctly with our NRA Certified Basic Pistol Class: Teaches basic knowledge, skills & attitude necessary for owning & using a pistol safely. Fee includes official, required NRA student packets and live-fire range time.
For ages 14 and up, families are encouraged to study together.
This course is recommended for beginning shooters, those who wish to refresh their shooting skills, and those who want proper technique allowing for a higher level of accuracy. It is not required by the State of Texas for a CHL but is recommended for teaching safety and basic marksmanship.
Using the NRA training method of Total Participant Involvement, basic courses provide hands on learning opportunities in the following areas:
- safe firearm handling
- firearm parts and operation
- ammunition and its function
- shooting fundamentals and an opportunity to develop them on the range
- how to select, clean and store a firearm
- review of various activities available to help participants develop and improve their shooting skills
Attractive certificates are awarded to participants who successfully complete each basic course. NRA packet contains much useful material including self-directed shooting improvement programs.
Larry calls into Pratt on Texas to talk about taking our NRA pistol class:
> 9 hours (7 classroom & 2 live-fire range), limited to 8 persons per class (with 2 certified instructors present – one for each 4 students) $180 per person
Select and register for a class here.
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Texas Concealed Handgun License (CHL) NEW APPLICANT training: Complete State of Texas required course including materials, testing, and range proficiency exam. Required course training is independent of state required license fees.
There may be less expensive CHL training on the High Ground of Texas, but there is none better than from Darla & Skip Granberry through Pratt on Texas!
Inexperienced shooters should seriously consider the NRA Basic Pistol Class before beginning their CHL training as the Texas CHL class assumes a basic knowledge of marksmanship and firearm skills.
State law requires class time of four to six hours plus qualification shooting time.
> Usually 9am until 6pm ( 4 to 6 hours in classroom followed by live-fire range qualification), limited to 10 persons per class. $175 per person
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Private individual instruction: Can include any combination of live-fire shooting instruction or firearm cleaning and care. Instruction may be tailored to your specific needs. Range time is included. Ammunition, and any extra fees will be paid by customer over and above the hourly fee.
$50/hour per student or $75/hour per couple
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How to keep your 2nd Amendment Rights
Join the TSRA today.
Pratt strongly recommends you work to preserve your right to self-defense by becoming a member of the National Rifle Association and the Texas State Rifle Association. Already an NRA member? The TSRA is the group that has done the work on Concealed Carry and preserves our rights in Texas.
Join the NRA now.
Thoughts about guns, self defense and the 2nd Amendment:
The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.
– Patrick Henry
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.”
– Benjamin Franklin, 1759
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
— Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-188
…the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others…Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
– John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
What if the 2nd Amendment had read ‘A literate population, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read books, shall not be infringed’? Would that allow the State to restrict books to libraries or require licenses for their posession? What about exceptionally dangerous or subversive books?
– J. Neil Schulman
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
– Thomas Jefferson
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceful citizens from keeping their own arms.
– Samuel Adams, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1788
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
– Samuel Adams
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
– William S. Burroughs
Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms under our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?
– Patrick Henry
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.
–Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (Philadelphia 1787)
The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
– William R. Inge
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
– William Orville Douglas, US Supreme Court
The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution’s Bill of Rights.
– Erwin N. Griswold
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