Spartan Firearms Training Group

06/18/2026

This scenario-based simulator is at the Guntry Club in Owings Mills, Maryland.

06/18/2026

We teach these principles in our wear and carry course. Perfect skills performed perfectly burns the skills into your neural pathways. When they are burned in, the skills are rapidly available under stress.

06/17/2026

06/17/2026

The Spartan Fi****ms Training Group is for responsible and legally qualified citizens who understand that carrying a firearm is not about power. We help citizens become safe, lawful, disciplined armed citizen-guardians™.

Remember, a permit is not just about preparation. Carrying a firearm requires legal clarity, safe handling, defensive skill, restraint, moral responsibility, and protecting innocent life.

The Spartan Standard™ (below) exists to move people from simply being armed to being prepared, disciplined, legally aware, morally grounded, and worthy of the responsibility they carry.

The purpose of The Spartan Standard™ is to define what Spartan Fi****ms Training Group believes a responsible armed citizen should become. For us, it is not just a slogan; it is a standard of conduct that does five important things:

1. It sets expectations
2. It separates us from ordinary fi****ms training.
3. It gives our customers a framework for their training.
4. It reinforces responsibility over ego.
5. It serves as a promise.

06/17/2026

Some of you might remember one of my (Frank) pet peeves.

It is not "walk the walk," it is not talk the talk. It is, for goodness sake, "walk the talk."

You have to do what you say (walk the talk)

You have to practice what you preach (walk the talk)

Do what you say, live what you teach, (walk the talk).

Your conduct must match your stated beliefs (walk the talk).

A responsible armed citizen cannot merely speak about discipline, restraint, and preparation. He and she must walk the talk.

06/17/2026

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In a major ruling out of the Appellate Court of Maryland, all 14 judges agreed that police cannot stop someone just because they see or suspect a concealed handgun. The case centered on Steven Hicks, who was in a group on a Baltimore street when officers thought they saw a gun printing under his shirt and moved in for a stop and frisk. Hicks told them he was licensed, but they pushed ahead anyway, dug past a basic pat‑down, pulled items from his pockets, and eventually found guns and drugs. A lower court let that evidence in, but the appellate court tossed it, saying Bruen changed the landscape: public carry is now “presumptively lawful,” so the mere presence of a gun does not equal reasonable suspicion of a crime.

The judges were clear. The “mere possibility” that a person might not have a permit is not enough to justify seizing them. If cops want to stop and search someone over a firearm, they need specific facts suggesting the gun is being possessed illegally or that some other criminal activity is going on. Just seeing a bulge, a print, or a hint of a holster is no longer a free pass to treat you like a criminal. That is a huge shift in a state that long treated handgun carry as “presumptively illegal” and used that assumption to justify a lot of stops, especially in places like Baltimore.

For concealed carriers, this decision is big. It reinforces that exercising a recognized constitutional right cannot, by itself, be the excuse to detain and frisk you. It also shows how Bruen is still rippling through lower courts, forcing states to admit that “shall issue” and permitless carry regimes mean what they say: regular people with guns in public are not automatically suspects. The fight is far from over, and Maryland’s AG is already “reviewing” the ruling, but for now the message is clear: in Maryland, guns ≠ crime by default.

06/16/2026

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06/08/2026

We talk about this in our wear and carry course. Many people think they can shoot someone who illegally enters their home without an intent to harm. But Maryland law is clear, the only justifiable reason to shoot an intruder is if they pose serious bodily harm or intend to commit a felony.

Please remember we are not lawyers. Nothing we share with you should be considered formal legal advice. Please refer to Cohen, M. E., & Harris, R. S., IV. (2024). The Maryland use of force handbook. Independently published for additional information.

Here is a clean citation block to which you can also refer:

Maryland recognizes a limited defense of habitation. See MPJI-Cr 5:02, Defense of Habitation—Deadly Force; Joiner v. State, No. 1949, Sept. Term 2023 (App. Ct. Md. May 30, 2025); Braboy v. State, 130 Md. App. 220, 226 n.9, 745 A.2d 471 (2000); Crawford v. State, 231 Md. 354, 190 A.2d 538 (1963); DeVaughn v. State, 232 Md. 447, 194 A.2d 109 (1963); Md. Code Ann., Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 5-808.

06/05/2026

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