South Carolina Concealed Weapons Permit SC CWP

SC CWP training in Columbia, South Carolina

"AWESOME!" — G.M.R. (Minister)

Our South Carolina CWP, NRA Basic Pistol, personal protection, and personal training classes are held in and around Columbia, SC.

Paladin Services training classes for the South Carolina Concealed Weapons Permit (CWP) in the greater Columbia, SC area.Columbia, SC, We're on your side. If you're legally qualified to own and carry a handgun in South Carolina, we help you meet the training requirement for South Carolina's CWP (Concealed Weapons Permit) and receive the NRA's Basic Pistol Certificate at the same time. Ours is the most complete basic class imaginable and goes far beyond the minimums required by law but there's no extra cost for the real training and assistance we give you. 

Our South Carolina CWP, NRA Basic Pistol, and Personal Protection classes are for women and couples too.We do better than just help you get permits and certificates. We teach you what you need to know: how to choose the right handgun, how to use your handgun to protect your own life and the lives of people you love, how to comply with the  law, and how to avoid or evade trouble.

We even help you get a discount NRA membership or renewal that gives you firearms insurance and ensures your right to have a firearm for self-defense and sporting purposes too.

When you've completed our class you will have the real self-confidence that comes from knowing what to do and how to do it, which should accompany the permits.

Our teaching starts with gun safety, explains the fundamentals, and builds on the basics. We focus on your needs—whether you're a newcomer to firearms, are apprehensive, or an experienced gun owner who grew up with them. We have several decades of fulltime professional experience helping people learn, we're proud of what we do, and we enjoy doing it. You'll find that we really are on your side and can help.

We teach ordinary people who recognize their obligation to accept responsibility for their own lives and their family's. Civilians need a much different perspective from law enforcement and the military. We teach from the civilian perspective and our goal is to help you be safe and stay out of trouble.

So if you're a civilian who wants a South Carolina CWP and the Florida CWP and the NRA Basic Pistol certificate and the ability to protect your own life and the lives of your family, you've reached a good place. You're who we teach and that's what we teach. We teach good people like you, not warriors.

South Carolina CWP

Our South Carolina CWP class earns you both the South Carolina CWP training certificate and the NRA Basic Pistol certificate.We offer the required South Carolina CWP training class in the Columbia area at least once a month, usually on the first Saturday of every month. Click here for the dates of those regularly-scheduled CWP classes. We also hold many other CWP classes not on that schedule. E-mail us with your local telephone number(s) so we can call you to answer your questions, learn your special needs, and offer suggestions. When we call we'll let you know the dates of any additional classes that might suit your needs.

Our course is approved by SLED to meet the training requirement for South Carolina's CWP. It also incorporates the NRA's Basic Pistol course, recognized by other states as meeting their training requirement for a concealed weapons permit. When you satisfactorily complete our CWP class you receive the NRA Basic Pistol Certificate as well as our certification for the South Carolina CWP training requirement.

With our South Carolina CWP and NRA Basic Pistol class you can apply for the Florida CWP and carry in Georgia and many other states.With our NRA Basic Pistol Certificate you can apply immediately for Florida's non-resident CWP, which allows you to carry in more states than the South Carolina CWP, including Georgia. (Georgia doesn't recognize South Carolina's CWP. It does recognize Florida's CWL.) We'll give you Florida's application and help you fill it out too.

Bonus features of our NRA Basic Pistol Certificate are that it allows you to take advanced defensive courses such as our Personal Protection In The Home and Personal Protection Outside The Home classes. 

Get going now by clicking on this link to e-mail us. Please be sure to include your local telephone number(s).

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Personal Training

Paladin Services personal training is individual firearms instruction in the greater Columbia, SC area.When a class with other people isn't what you need or want, and an individual session will be better for you, arrange for Personal Training with us. Janet or Joe or both of us will be happy to work with you outside the standard group situation—personally.

We'll work with you alone or with a family member or friend if you want. We've helped people who didn't feel ready for a class yet . . . people who didn't know how to use a handgun or were afraid of them . . . people who just acquired a new handgun or shotgun or rifle and wanted to get up to speed with it . . . military personnel preparing for deployment . . .  law enforcement officers getting ready to qualify . . . husbands and wives learning to work together.

Each Personal Training session is two hours, which we've found to be about right for focused work of this kind. We can schedule a session with you and perhaps a family member for a mutually-convenient date and time in one of the available two-hour time slots. Click here to see the time slots currently available for Personal Training.

Our focus is on you during your Personal Training session. We'll diagnose your problems and help you correct them, guide you towards how to do more effective practice on your own, and show you skills, tips, and techniques you might not already know. We begin every Personal Training session with a review of the gun safety rules. At the end of your Personal Training session we award you a certificate of training to document it for future need.

We're on your side. You don't need any prior experience. We can lend you a firearm. Arrange Personal Training with us as often as you need or want.  We've seen remarkable results from these two-hour individual tutoring sessions.

Civilian self-defense handgun, shotgun, and rifle classes in the Columbia, SC area.Click here to learn how to arrange a Personal Training session in or around Columbia, SC. Or e-mail us for information and an application. Please include your local telephone number so we can call to answer your questions and determine your needs.

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