Solano County Gun Owners: A CRPA Chapter – Calendar
Where to find us:
Chapter meetings second Wednesday of each month.
6:30pm, doors open at 6:00pm
Suisun Veterans Memorial Building
427 Main Street
Suisun City, California 94585
July Meeting:
Door prize ticket for every attendee, pizza and drinks.
August Meeting:
Door prize ticket for every attendee, pizza and drinks.
Guest Speaker:
Join us for a unique and interactive presentation from Doug Kevilus, founder of 2A Firearms Academy, firearms instructor, Army veteran, and former mentalist.
Doug will present “Stuck in Patterns: How Your Mind Fools You Every Day,” a fascinating look at how the brain builds habits, fills in gaps, and creates patterns we often never notice. Using visual illusions, memory exercises, audience participation, and practical examples, Doug will show how easily perception can be influenced — and why that matters for anyone serious about awareness, judgment, and personal protection.
This is not a standard firearms lecture. It is a look at the mind behind the decision-making process. Attendees will see how vision, language, intuition, and habit can mislead us, and how training helps us recognize and break old patterns.
As a bonus, Doug will teach everyone in the room a simple memory method to recite the alphabet backward in less than five minutes.
This will be a fun, engaging, and thought-provoking meeting you do not want to miss.
Key Takeaways for Promotion
Attendees will learn:
- Why your brain constantly looks for patterns.
- How vision and perception can deceive you.
- Why people often “fill in the blanks” without realizing it.
- How intuition can lead to fast but wrong answers.
- Why habits can become mental traps.
- How training helps break old patterns and build better ones.
- A simple memory technique to recite the alphabet backward.
Speaker Bio
Doug Kevilus is the founder and lead instructor of 2A Firearms Academy. He is a U.S. Army veteran, a certified firearms instructor, and an adult educator with decades of teaching experience. Before founding 2A Firearms Academy, Doug also performed as a mentalist, studying how people think, perceive, remember, and make decisions.
Doug combines his background in firearms training, adult education, and mentalism to teach students not only how to handle firearms safely, but how to think more clearly under stress, recognize patterns, and make better decisions.