Instructor Courses

Credentials; Instructor since 2000

  • Basic Instructors Course, Lackland AFB TX

  • Training Supervisor Course, Lackland AFB, TX

  • Teaching Practicum, Lackland AFB, TX

  • Objectives and Tests Course, Lackland AFB, TX

  • Student Centered Instruction Course, Lackland AFB, TX

  • Instructor, Joint Law Enforcement Training Center

    • Chief, Advanced Officer Course

    • Chief, Basic Officer Course

  • NRA Basic Instructor Training

  • NRA Training Counselor

A firearms instructor is more than a title or a certificate…it is a tremendous responsibility. In addition to supporting the right to bear arms as guaranteed through Second Amendment, it involves ensuring safe handling, storage and use of a firearm as well as promoting a fun sport, ethical hunting and legal self-defense.

If the class you want to take isn’t on the Calendar, you can request a class for 4 or more participants.

NRA Firearms Instructor

In order to become an accredited instructor through the NRA, you must:

  1. Take the basic student course in a shooting discipline (pistol, rifle, shotgun, etc),

  2. Take Basic Instructor Training (BIT) which expires after two (2) years,

  3. Take the instructor course for each discipline (pistol, rifle, shotgun, etc)

If you only want to be a rifle instructor, you take the rifle course, BIT and the rifle instructor course. If you also want to be a shotgun instructor you take the shotgun class and shotgun instructor class but do not need to take BIT if you already had BIT within the last two (2) years. If BIT has expired, you will need to take BIT again.

You have to be an NRA Pistol Instructor before you can be an NRA CCW instructor. All instructor classes, including BIT, require at least 4 students per NRA policy in order for the class to be conducted.

Instructor Development Courses

Being an instructor is not a static event and we owe it to our students to seek improvement in our teaching skills in addition to our firearm skills as well as stay up to date with the latest issues in the firearm and self-defense industry.

One major change for Maryland instructors is the addition of teaching mental health aspects to gun ownership and concealed carry permit classes. Our mental health course is derived from the training and experienced gained as the Branch Chief of Research for the Air Force’s Resilience section at the Pentagon as well as research in Military Sociology and Social Psychology as part of a PhD program at the University of Maryland.