USCCA Instructor Certification Course

USCCA Instructor Certification Course Information

Course Cost: $597.00 before tax and payable as follows:

• $347.00 plus NM sales tax paid to Vigilant Firearms Training, LLC.

This fee can be paid before or after requesting eLearning course and Tool Kit. (If you ordered the kit and started, just let me know, please) If you are paying using other means, such as cash, please contact me at keith@vigilantfirearms.com.

• $250.00 purchase of eLearning course and Tool Kit

Call 1-877-577-4800 for purchase of eLearning course and Tool Kit. Advise them that you are taking the USCCA Instructor Course with me, Keith Kolb.

Phase I

eLearning course MUST be completed two (2) weeks prior to class start date. This offers you an opportunity to become familiar with the course material prior to required classroom instruction. Once you are complete with the online training, please send me an email to me to confirm you completed this. After you complete the eLearning, contact me so I can coordinate. I will need your full name, address, email, phone number, and your USCCA membership number if you have one.

Phase II

USCCA Instructor Training Course.
Classroom Instruction and Live Fire phase.

• Each Instructor Candidate will demonstrate a portion of several slides from each of chapters, and each peer candidate will have the opportunity to offer positive suggestions towards one another’s performances.

• Lessons will include using a Virtual Range which is the SIRT pistols in the classrooms with fellow instructor candidates playing scenarios as basic handgun students. Instructor candidates will be required to identify and correct deficiencies in their students

USCCA will provide:
Initially you will receive the eLearning Course from USCCA to get started. After the classroom portion, you will receive access to the Instructor Web-Portal and be sent the Instructor Tool Kit which Includes – 235 slide PowerPoint Presentation, (10) Conceal Carry and Home Defense Manuals, 14 critical Classroom Videos and classroom posters, Conceal Carry Magazines, Official Instructor Apparel and more!

We will provide:

• Classroom, the shooting Range, and the Training Counselor for the class.
• Condensed Course Instructors Manual
• Beverages and Snacks

You will bring:

• Eye’s and Ear’s Protection
• Your Firearm
• (1) Box of 50 Rounds your caliber ammunition

The course classroom portion will be held at Vigilant Firearms Training, currently at 4801 Lang Ave. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109. The Live Fire qualification will be held at the Del Norte Gun Club at 208 Torcida, Rio Rancho, NM.

Live Fire Qualification:
The Center Mass is 11.5” wide X 17.5” high.
The Silhouette is 21” wide X 34” High

• 15 ft. (1 round, center mass),
• 15 ft. (10 rounds, center mass),
• 21 ft. (10 rounds, center mass),
• 45 ft. (10 rounds within the silhouette).

Qualifying Score = 80%, hits are scored on the 8 ring or smaller.
Official NRAB – 27E Pistol Target or equivalent
Up to 19 rounds are used for practice before Qualification Shooting using 31 rounds.

Schedule: 

Time: 8:00 am thru 5:30 pm each day
First day is classroom work only and the second day is Range in the morning followed by classroom.

Questions:

One question that keeps coming up is – does NM accept USCCA for CCW Instructor license purposes? The answer is yes. It is not a blanket acceptance, so each instructor will have to submit a syllabus that basically states you are following USCCA courseware and that is acceptable to NM DPS. You will also need to buy instructor firearms insurance before registering with the state.

Call or email me if there are questions or concerns.

Keith Kolb
USCCA Training Counselor
505-506-6800
kwkolb@gmail.com