Ray Keith

Before opening West Texas Handgun Training, Ray taught Texas License to Carry and Defensive Pistol Skills for 15 years.  He has been a practicing attorney for over 30 years, with the last 16 exclusively focused on the defense of homicide and capital murder cases in Texas. He has extensive knowledge of the law governing the use of force in Texas and the legal aspects of the defensive use of handguns. He has also completed training for the civilian response to active shooters as well as instructing church security teams.

 

Ray is first and foremost a student and then an instructor.  He has studied and trained in the use of the pistol for self-defense and in competition for the past 20 years under instructors nationwide.  For the past 18 years his primary teacher and mentor has been Tom Givens of Rangemaster based in Plant City, Florida.  He has completed the four levels of the Rangemaster Pistol Instructor Certification track, alone constituting over 80 hours of classroom, range, and practical teaching instruction, in addition to written and shooting performance testing to exacting standards.  His own training in the subject is ongoing with over 800 hours of professional instruction in both shooting and teaching to date.

Some of Ray's training includes:

 

• Certified Texas License to Carry Instructor
• Rangemaster Certified Professional Pistolcraft Instructor
• Rangemaster Certified Master Firearms Instructor
• Texas Commissioned Security Officer License #15*******
• N.R.A. Certified Pistol Instructor
• N.R.A. Certified Rifle Instructor
• N.R.A. Certified Shotgun Instructor
• N.R.A. Certified Range Safety Officer
• Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training- Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events, Train the Trainer
• Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training- Active Attack Event Response Leadership
• TCOLE Basic Instructor Development- Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) Law Enforcement and Security Training
• TCOLE Course #2222 Firearms Instructor Development- Eric Wise, Cornerstone Performance
• Certified Glock Armorer
• Competitive Shooter in the International Defensive Pistol Association in I.D.P.A. and U.S.P.S.A.

 

Tom Givens at Rangemaster, Memphis, Tennessee

• Level II-Tactical Pistol Course
• Level III- Advanced Tactics & Skills
• Level IV- Special Pistol
• Level V- Professional Pistol
• Combative Pistol I (Longview, TX)
• Defensive Shotgun I (Longview, TX)
• Dynamic Marksmanship (Longview, TX)
• Rangemaster Practical Tactical (Memphis, TN)
• Rangemaster Tactical Conference (multiple years)

 

Massad Ayoob at Massad Ayoob Group, Live Oak, Florida

• M.A.G. 40

 

Craig Douglas, Shivworks at Memphis, Tennessee

• “Managing Unknown Contacts” (M.U.C.)

 

Todd Louis Green at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

• Aim Fast, Hit Fast

 

Gunsite Academy, Inc., at Paulden, Arizona

• “250”

 

John Murphy, FPF Training at Lincoln, Texas

• Concealed Carry: Street Encounter Skills and Tactics

 

Dave Spaulding, Handgun Combatives at Nunn, Colorado

• Complete Package-Legacy Course 

 

John Hearne, Two Pillars Training at Shreveport, Louisiana

• Who Wins, Who Loses, & Why: Understanding Human Performance When Death is on the Line
• Cognitive Pistol with Tactical Anatomy

John Holschen, West Coast Armory, Heiho Consulting, Dallas, Texas

• Applied Defensive Handgun Skills

 

Palisade Training Group- Steve Moses, Doug Grieg, Allen McBee

• Church Security Team Leader/Instructor Development Level 1
•  Defensive Shotgun

 

Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX)

• LET221 Active Attack Event Response Leadership
• LET641 Legal Issues for Use of Force Instructors
• LET565 Basic Instructor Development