We provide you with useful and empowering educational materials on firearms law – particularly the law of self-defense.  We also provide you with immediate access to firearms-knowledgeable, firearms-friendly legal talent who will represent you at unusually attractive, preferred rates if you need to formally engage counsel.  Our team is nationally recognized for its legal and firearms-related expertise and our exclusive update service will help you stay current on firearms-related legal developments of importance to you.  We also pride ourselves on providing expert analysis of firearms-related law and regulations that you won’t get elsewhere.

Just as accuracy with your firearms is vital to your safety and survival, accuracy in your understanding of the law is vital to your personal freedom in these legally-perilous times.  You can be confident in the accuracy and reliability of the legal information provided by NFLI.  The views expressed by NFLI and the information we provide in our course materials and online blog have been checked, re-checked, and checked again to make sure that we get it right, first time, every time.

We would rather be right than be first.  We don’t rush our content just to be part of the noise when a firearms-related legal issue arises in the news.  Our commitment is to present carefully-considered and thoroughly-researched legal analysis and courses that will benefit you.

We teach the law of self-defense in a focused way, on a state-by-state basis.  We do it this way because the law of self-defense varies considerably from state to state and the courts will hold you legally responsible for complying with the details of the law in the state/jurisdiction where a self-defense incident occurs.  Others who try to teach the law of self-defense on a national or generalized basis increase your risk of non-compliance and a criminal prosecution or civil suit.  Anti-gun prosecutors and plaintiff’s lawyers love to exploit your lack of knowledge of – and failure to adhere to – what they will claim are important details in the law of self-defense.  Our focused approach helps increase your chances of acting lawfully at the critical moment in a physical attack, rather than crowding your mind with inapplicable information from irrelevant jurisdictions.

To accomplish its mission, NFLI is engaged in (i) the development, presentation, and dissemination of information, courses, materials, and services relating to the law of self-defense; (ii) development and administration of a network of firearms-knowledgeable attorneys and experts who are experienced in self-defense matters and will be available at affordable rates to NFLI members who need legal representation and technical expertise; and (iii) identification of the best available insurance coverage, legal services cooperatives, and prepaid legal services organizations which can help protect your finances against the legal expenses that accompany a self-defense incident

The Institute will also provide a forum for discussion of important developments in: (i) the law of self-defense; (ii) Second Amendment jurisprudence; (iii) federal and state firearms-related legislation and regulation; and (iv) the evolution of self-defense insurance, prepaid legal services organizations, and legal services cooperatives.  The Institute will facilitate robust and open debate about the law as it relates to firearms by enabling attorneys, scholars, government officials, firearms and shooting enthusiasts and experts, law enforcement officers, firearms industry representatives, and firearms-related associations to share their views on significant current events of interest.  It will also provide a resource from which newcomers to the world of firearms can obtain information about the lawful use of firearms for self-defense.