About Adaptive Firearms Institute
Adaptive Firearms Institute (AFI) was founded on one simple truth: survival favors those who adapt.
We’re not just a firearms training company — we are a performance-driven, problem-solving institute. At AFI, we teach the fighting application of firearms through a scientific, honest, and constantly evolving approach. Every drill, every rep, and every course is designed around how the human body truly performs, using principles rooted in kinesiology, biomechanics, and neuroscience.
We challenge outdated methods, reject dogma, and build everything we teach on evidence, efficiency, and adaptability. Our goal is simple: make you more capable, more confident, and more prepared to win when it matters most.
Training That Evolves With You
AFI makes high-performance training accessible and realistic. We understand that long, multi-day courses aren’t always practical, so we offer efficient, high-round-count 1-day classes focused on weapon manipulation, real-world problem solving, and repeatable performance.
We don’t believe in artificial stress. The kind of pressure you’ll face in a real gunfight can’t be recreated, and trying to fake it often does more harm than good. Instead, we train in a serious but relaxed environment where high standards, peer competition, and realistic scenario-based shooting naturally push students to perform. That’s how we build skills that hold up when it matters most — through structure and real-world context, not chaos.
Our 8-acre training campus features:
• 3 dynamic live-fire ranges
• Purpose-built defensive driving track
• “The Playground” — vehicles, structures, and complex live-fire scenarios
This isn’t just a range. It’s a training ground for adaptable gunfighters.
Instructors Who Can Teach — Not Just Shoot
Great instructors don’t just pass on what they were taught. They teach what works now. At Adaptive Firearms Institute, we don’t recycle outdated doctrine or regurgitate the status quo. We evolve it. Every technique is grounded in biomechanics, neuroscience, and real-world testing, much of it developed in-house, to reflect how the body truly performs under real-world conditions.
AFI is not built around a single résumé or a celebrity-instructor model. AFI’s founder and lead instructor is present at every course, providing consistency in curriculum, standards, safety, and instructional philosophy. Depending on the course and training objectives, he is joined by carefully selected instructors whose experience directly supports the material being taught.
The AFI cadre includes current and former professionals from throughout the U.S. special operations and intelligence communities, with backgrounds spanning JSOC and national mission units, Naval Special Warfare, Army Special Operations, Air Force Special Warfare, and local and federal law enforcement. Our cadre also includes accomplished competitive shooters and highly experienced civilian firearms instructors.
Their combined experience includes combat deployments, hundreds of direct-action missions, high-threat protective operations, real-world law enforcement, emergency medicine, professional agency-level training, and high-level competitive shooting.
Many members of our cadre remain actively employed by government agencies or serve in sensitive professional roles. For that reason, AFI does not publish full names, photographs, or detailed personal histories for every instructor. Their privacy and operational security are respected, but their experience and ability to teach are carefully vetted.
Operational experience alone does not make someone a great instructor. Every member of the AFI cadre is selected for the ability to communicate, adapt, solve problems, and help students perform at a higher level without ego. We bring the right instructors for the mission, the course, and the students in front of us.
We don’t live in the past.
We train for the fight in front of you.
This Is Adaptive Firearms
We train real people for real-world problems.
We believe preparation is power.
We believe skill beats theory.
We believe performance can’t be faked.
We turn shooters into thinkers.
We turn training into performance.
We turn knowledge into confidence.
Adaptive Operations Group
Adaptive Firearms Institute is proud to be part of
Adaptive Operations Group (AOG), a veteran-owned organization focused on Training, Manufacturing, Medical, and Driving.
Through AOG, we bring together professional firearms instruction, firearms manufacturing, medical education, and mobility training under one organization dedicated to performance, adaptability, and real-world solutions.
AOG Divisions:
• Adaptive Firearms Institute – Training Division
• Disruptive Tactical – Manufacturing Division
• AFI Online – Retail Division
Built to Perform — Disruptive Tactical
AFI is also home to
Disruptive Tactical, our in-house manufacturing arm dedicated to building mission-ready rifles like the DT15.
Designed for reliability in the harshest environments, each rifle is tuned for:
• Ultra-smooth recoil control
• Battle-ready performance straight out of the box
• Zero compromise on materials, quality, or function
Whether you're an armed professional or a responsible citizen, your rifle should never be the weakest link.
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