Become a Firearms Instructor

Take your Firearms Training Business to the next level by becoming a USCCA Certified Instructor today! With the USCCA’s Certified Instructor courses, you’ll gain all the knowledge, tools, and materials you need to be a valuable resource in your community - providing industry-leading instruction for concealed carry and self-defense scenarios.

Now is the time to step up and arm others with practical, real-world training they can’t find anywhere else.

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Concealed Carry and Home Defense Fundamentals

2-Day Classroom Instruction Course With Range Qualification

Set yourself apart from other self-defense instructors in your area with the nationally recognized USCCA Concealed Carry and Home Defense Fundamentals Instructor Certification. This course is the gold standard for law-abiding Americans seeking to obtain their concealed carry permits.

What You Will Teach Your Students:

  • Developing a Personal and Home-Protection Plan
  • Self-Defense Firearms Basics
  • Shooting Fundamentals
  • The Legal Use of Force
  • Violent Encounters and the Aftermath
  • Gear and Gadgets
  • Basic and Advanced Skills
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Defensive Pistol Program Instructor Certification

3-Day Range Instruction Course

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
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AR-15 Shooting Fundamentals

3-Day Certification Course

Learn how to provide students with safe and effective instruction on how to use their AR-15 to defend their home. Once certified, you’ll have all the skills needed to hit the range and improve a student’s proficiency, regardless of his or her experience level.

What You Will Teach Your Students

  • Fundamentals of rifle marksmanship
  • Accessorizing and maintaining an AR-15
  • The importance of round trajectory for close encounters
  • How to improve their skills and precision with an AR-15
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Resources For USCCA Instructors

Industry-Leading Curriculum

Join more than 10,000 USCCA Certified Instructors across the country who utilize the USCCA’s easy-to-teach lessons and proven training materials. Plus, you get an entire team dedicated to creating and updating existing curriculum based on YOUR feedback!

Industry-Leading Curriculum

Join more than 10,000 USCCA Certified Instructors across the country who utilize the USCCA’s easy-to-teach lessons and proven training materials. Plus, you get an entire team dedicated to creating and updating existing curriculum based on YOUR feedback!

Industry-Leading Curriculum

Join more than 10,000 USCCA Certified Instructors across the country who utilize the USCCA’s easy-to-teach lessons and proven training materials. Plus, you get an entire team dedicated to creating and updating existing curriculum based on YOUR feedback!

Industry-Leading Curriculum

Join more than 10,000 USCCA Certified Instructors across the country who utilize the USCCA’s easy-to-teach lessons and proven training materials. Plus, you get an entire team dedicated to creating and updating existing curriculum based on YOUR feedback!

Why Become a USCCA Certified Instructor?

Becoming a USCCA Certified Instructor gives you the autonomy to operate as your own business entity.

You have the ability to set your own class prices, charge fees for in-class materials, and you will also determine when and where classes will take place according to you schedule.

Certified Instructors have full access to the USCCA Training Platform which allows you to post classes for students to see, learn about, and enroll in. You also get your own Instructor Page that lists all of the classes you have available.

Benefits of Becoming an Instructor Include:

  • Certified Instructors are listed on the USCCA Training website, visible to all USCCA Members and non-members.
  • USCCA Certified Instructors benefit from seamless online training registration, which makes signing up for a class easy for students.
  • Receive Free Standard Shipping and discounts when buying bulk materials from the Instructor Store.
  • USCCA Instructors get support from an entire Instructor Support Team dedicated to helping with any questions that arise!
  • Instructors can list available classes on the USCCA Training Site, searchable by anyone interested in self-defense training.
  • Instructors can take advantage of existing USCCA marketing materials like print materials, websites, social media, and branded apparel.
  • Certified Instructors get full access to the USCCA Instructor Dashboard where dozens of resources can be found, like student presentations (PowerPoint presentations), lesson plans, registration forms, quizzes, state-legal supplements, student certificate templates, and business development resources.

USCCA Training Counselors

Who Are USCCA Training Counselors?

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!

A USCCA training counselor standing next to his tactical gear