Become a Firearms Instructor

Learn how to provide students with safe and effective instruction while preparing them for real-world defensive situations. Once certified, you’ll help improve your student’s proficiency, regardless of his or her experience level with this classroom and range course.

What You Will Teach Your Students:

• Preparing for the Range - Classroom Instruction
• Session 1: Fundamentals of Defensive Pistol
• Session 2: Presentation From Concealment
• Session 3: Balance of Speed & Precision
• Session 4: Defensive Response
• Session 5: Malfunctions & Single-Handed Shooting

Help your students bridge the gap between doing nothing and using deadly force by introducing them to alternative self-defense options like: OC sprays and gels, energy weapons, and self-defense launchers. Once certified, you’ll gain access to a broader audience seeking entry-level or secondary self-defense options.

What You Will Teach Your Students

• The physical and psychological effects of various non-lethal devices
• The appropriate legal and practical conditions for non-lethal deployment
• Effective deployment of OC, energy weapons, and self-defense launchers
• How to use verbal commands and movement to create and maintain distance

These highly talented individuals started out as USCCA Certified Instructors, just like you’re about to become. However, their dedication and expertise in helping others drove them to level up their potential impact on responsibly armed Americans; they chose to become trainers of trainers.

Certified Instructors who prove themselves to be the cream of the crop are carefully selected by the USCCA and given an invitation to join this elite class of Training Counselors. This opportunity allows expert instructors the ability to share their passion, reach more students than ever before, and make more revenue doing what they love.

Becoming a USCCA Training Counselor requires each invitee to participate in a multi-day training course, hosted by senior-level Training Counselors at the national USCCA headquarters in West Bend, Wisconsin.

Upon successful completion of the Training Counselor Certification Course new Training Counselors can begin hosting Instructor Certification Courses of their own, making over $347 for every instructor certified!