NRA Instructor Development Course
Various training teams around the country run the three-day weekend NRA Instructor
Development Course marathon - usually over Memorial Day weekend or Labor Day weekend.
Do you have what it takes? Look over the pre-course assessment
exercises.
Here is a preliminary training schedule
available.
Here is the instructor training
course application.
If you are an experienced shooter, interested in helping teach new
shooters, you might want to consider becoming an NRA certified
instructor.
NRA Certified instructors are needed in a wide variety of areas,
including:
- Teaching Boy Scout Merit Badge courses,
- Teaching basic pistol and personal protection courses for people
who choose to keep a firearm for self-defense,
- Teaching Basic Rifle and Basic Shotgun courses to our next
generation of hunters and competitive shooters,
- Teaching ammunition reloading courses, and
- Teaching Home Firearms Safety to novice firearms owners and
friends and family members of gun owners so that they, too, learn the
basics of firearms safety.
If you're like most shooters, you are already taking people to the
range for their first shooting session. Are you up to date on the
latest shooting techniques? Do you have liability insurance to cover
you while you're teaching a new shooter? If you get certified as an
NRA instructor, you will be up-to-date on the latest instructional and
shooting techniques. Also, as an NRA certified instructor, you are
eligible for special instructor insurance programs through the
NRA.
This three day course will offer you the option of getting
certified to teach up to three of the courses listed below:
- Home Firearms Safety
- Basic Pistol
- Basic of Personal Protection in the Home
- Basic Rifle
- Basic Shotgun
- Muzzleloading Pistol
- Muzzleloading Rifle
- Muzzleloading Shotgun
- Reloading Shotgun Shells and Metallic Cartridges
- First Aid
- Range Safety Officer
You don't need to be an NRA member to attend!
Some events also offer American Red Cross First Aid training for
an additional fee of $30-$50.
Seats are limited and you must register in advance.
If you want to be notified of upcoming courses, please contact:
cambria@nratraining.com
NRA Training Counselor Course
Are you an NRA-Certified instructor that wants to teach other
instructors how to conduct courses? If you have taught at least five
classes and have taught at least twenty-five students, you may be
ready to become a NRA Training Counselor.
If you want a TC course in your area, please fill out the on-line form.
Click here for
the NRA Training Counselor application.
RTBAV Instructor Development Course
Click here to submit your on-line Refuse To Be A Victim instructor application to the NRA RTBAV Department.
To register, click here
NRA Instructor Online Listings
Active NRA instructors can add themselves to this web site's NRA Instructor
List.
To register, click here.
Personal Protection Outside The Home
Here is some historical information on the progress of the Personal Protection II / Personal Protection Outside the Home Course.
On p.5 of Shooting Education Update Issue 7 (Winter 1994), Mark Ness wrote,
"... new training materials for [the Personal Protection Course] will be available in the first half of 1995...
The new Basics of Personal Protection materials should not be confused with the more advanced Personal Protection II
program that is currently under development."
Jeff Cooper (NRA Board of Directors, Education and Training Committee) writes in Cooper's Commentaries, Vol. 5, No. 2 February, 1997,
"My special interest over the past months has been the updating and rewriting of the NRA Personal Protection Manual.
The committee assigned this task consisted of T.J. Johnston, Leroy Pyle and Jeff Cooper.
We put together what I think is a good paper, but due to certain obstructive proposals, we almost did not get it approved in the time allotted.
Due to the outstanding efforts of T.J., who stayed up all night clarifying the documents, we were able to place the program in the hands of the headquarters staff for editing in accordance with headquarters literary policy.
There remained a couple of obstructionists lurking in the shadows, but with good luck and a tail wind, I think we can present a new personal protection program to our membership which will bring NRA doctrine in line with the modern technique. High time!"
According to Leroy Pyle, this lesson plan was completed and delivered to the NRA Training Department on Feb 7th, 1997.
In March 1998, Dave Workman (NRA Board of Directors, Education and Training Committee) announced to NRA Certified Instructors at the East King County Friends of the NRA Banquet that
the new NRA Personal Protection Course (to include teaching students how to draw a handgun from a holster) would be released at the NRA Convention in Philadelphia, June 5-7, 1998.
On p. 5 of Shooting Education Update Issue 24 (Summer 1999), Charles Mitchell wrote,
"The new Personal Protection [Inside The Home] Course lesson plans are now available ... Work has begun on Personal Protection Outside The Home.
Please bear with us. When the writing, editing technical and legal review processes are taken into account, the course is at least a year away."
On p. 1 of Shooting Education Update Issue 32 (Winter 2001), Charles Mitchell wrote,
"The new Personal Protection In the Home handbook went on sale February 1 ...
A new Personal Protection Outside the Home course, designed to support concealed carry, will be out during 2002."
Note that the Personal Protection Inside the Home course lesson plans were made available June 1999, however the textbook was unavailable until a year and a half later, February, 2001.
The technical/legal review process is very slow.
There is currently no estimated release date for the Personal Protection Outside The Home Course.
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