John Rendell
Instructor # 413474 |
Certified with the USCCA since 1/1/2019
Certification Renewal Date 3/15/2027
USCCA Certifications
- Concealed Carry & Home Defense
- Emergency & First Aid
- Women's Handgun & Self-Defense
- Range Safety Officer
- Children's Firearms & Safety Fundamentals
- Countering the Mass Shooter
My Biography
John founded The Northern Michigan Defense Academy and serves as our Lead Instructor. John is an Army Veteran, spent 7 years with a paramedic company, and worked for 16 years as a Law Enforcement Officer and Instructor at North Dakota’s Law Enforcement Academy. John owned and operated the NorthWest Handgun Training Academy in Washington and served as a License to Carry Instructor in Texas.
John is a certified United States Concealed Carry Association (USCCA) instructor in several areas of basic & advanced handgun, emergency First Aid fundamentals, Women's handgun and self defense fundamentals, self/home defense training and is a certified Range Safety Officer.
John’s breadth of experience matches his mission to help create trained and properly equipped responsible handgun owners.

