Ian McKnight
Ian McKnight, founder of Advantage Personal Defense and Tactics, has spent much of his life developing his knowledge and skills pertaining to personal and organizational security and tactics. Additionally, Ian has also developed through training and experience, an extensive background in firearms, range operations and an array of personal lethal and less than lethal weapons and the laws governing their use and possession.
For many years, Ian served as the armorer/rangemaster and firearms instructor for a local law enforcement agency. He was responsible for developing and conducting department firearms and weapons training and qualificaton standards for its officers. He now contracts with several local law enforcement agencies for Range Operations, Firearms Instruction and Armorer Services.
All instruction at Advantage Personal Defense and Tactics is conducted by Ian, who is a California POST Certified Instructor and Tactical Firearms Advisor, a NRA Certified Firearms Instructor and an NRA Training Counselor.