Welcome to Upper Hand Defense Options
We offer professional training to the residents of Franklin and Hampshire Counties in Western Massachusetts in firearms instruction. This training includes but is not limited to handgun, shotguns, chemical sprays and other defensive options. Our course is designed to educate, properly train, and increase public awareness with firearms and their use as well as other force options. The courses include legal updates, hands on training, stress induced training, positional shooting and basic marksmanship skills with concentartion on weapon selection, equipment selection and considerations. The courses are taught from a law enforcement perspective, with consideration to the civilian population.
We also offer the Basic Firearms Safety Course required to obatin LTC or FID.
Instructors / Owners: Leon (Lee) Laster, and Alan Lambert.
"Our courses are designed to give citizens and law enforcement confidence and knowledge in proper firearm handling and usage. We provide affordable, local, quality training in handgun, shotgun, rifle and other methods of defense options."
Lee Laster - Instructor
"The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals."
President James Monroe (November 16, 1818)