about the company
Speed and Accuracy.
Gateway Defense was founded by two friends who are passionate about shooting, with the vision to bring knowledge and education to the masses through training and media. We teach classes across the nation specializing in performance shooting, along with releasing weekly content to better equip the every day citizen.
Brennan Brennecke
Founder/Lead Instructor
Brennan’s unique perspective of training has been based around a balance of both defensive and competitive shooting. He has had the distinct privilege of being able to train under a wide variety of instructors across the industry, ranging from multiple IPSC World Champions, SWAT Operators, Special Operations snipers, USPSA Grandmasters, and many others. His training has spanned topics including competition shooting, concealed carry, CQB, night vision, long-range precision rifle, scoped carbine, low light, weapons-based grappling, and more.
He formerly taught as an instructor for Spectrain, a training company located in North Carolina. From there he moved on to work as the Lead Pistol Instructor for two years at Vortex Edge, the training division of Vortex Optics.
Brennan is now the owner and Lead Instructor of Gateway Defense Training LLC where he travels the country teaching pistol and rifle classes with a heavy emphasis on performance shooting. He is passionate about helping people learn to increase their performance by exploring the key principles of shooting, learning to track their progress using quantifiable metrics, and developing a structured path for self-improvement. When he's not teaching, he and Justin Anderson are busy producing educational content for their YouTube channel, revolving around the topic of performance shooting.
Founder/Instructor/Media
Justin Anderson
Justin has been shooting for the last decade, with the last four years consisting of advanced training and competing under the tutelage of a variety of excellent instructors ranging from USPSA Grandmasters to the Special Operations community. He is a staunch 2nd Amendment advocate, but his main passion is performance shooting, both competing at a high level as a Master Class shooter in USPSA as well as helping others on their path to better performance.
Justin heads up all the media for Gateway Defense, as well as doing freelance work for various companies across the industry. He is just as passionate about making high quality content that is both educational and inspirational as he is about shooting. He currently travels the country with Brennan teaching and doing media.