Columbia, SC,
If you are
legally qualified to own and carry a handgun in South Carolina, we
can help you meet
South Carolina's training requirement for the state's Concealed
Weapons Permit (CWP) and qualify for the NRA's Basic Pistol
Certificate at the same time.
We can do even better than just help you get certificates. We
can help you learn to actually use handguns, shotguns, and
rifles
for effective self-defense.
Our teaching
methods start with the basics and focus on your needs--even
if you are a newcomer to firearms, have limited experience, or are
a little fearful or apprehensive. We have decades of experience helping people
learn and we enjoy doing it.
We teach ordinary citizens who recognize their obligation to
take primary 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.
So if you're an ordinary citizen who wants a South
Carolina CWP 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 don't teach warriors.
South Carolina
CWP
We
offer the required South Carolina CWP training class at least
once a month, on the first Saturday of every month, in the
Columbia area. Consult your
calendar for their exact dates. We also
hold additional CWP classes and we can hold special group
classes in your location if it's in the Columbia area and
suitable for classroom use.
E-mail us for a list of currently-scheduled classes and an
application. Please include
your local telephone number(s) so we can call you to answer
your questions, learn your special needs, and offer suggestions.
We'll give you the South Carolina CWP application and help you
fill it out, line by line.
Our course is 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 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. 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. We teach those courses too. For dates of
our South Carolina CWP classes click
here.
For more information and an application to take our South
Carolina CWP class click on this link to e-mail us:
E-mail Us.
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Defensive
Handgun Refresher
We
want you to succeed and we help you achieve success. Our Defensive
Handgun Refreshers are short courses for people who
don't know how to use a handgun, or who are apprehensive about
using them, or who already have, or have qualified for, a Concealed
Weapons Permit and want to brush up or improve their skills.
Handgun shooting is a perishable skill. It
declines unless you practice well and fairly often. So our Defensive
Handgun Refresher helps you correct problems and
maintain and improve your skills. If you want to advance your
pistol or revolver abilities--or if you simply forgot some of what
you once knew how to do, a Defensive Handgun Refresher course
is for you.
We'll diagnose your problems and help you correct
them in our Defensive Handgun Refresher, guide you towards
how to do more effective practice on your own, and probably
introduce you to some new skills too.
Remember that it's
not a course in target shooting or competition. You can take
this Defensive Handgun Refresher as many times as you
want and as often as you feel the need.
For dates of our Defensive
Handgun Refresher classes click
here.
For more information and an application to take one of our Defensive
Handgun Refresher classes click on this link to e-mail
us:
E-mail Us.
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About Us
Paladin
Services was founded in 1996. Joseph and Janet Katz are the lead
instructors. Each of them is a SLED-certified instructor and is
NRA-certified to teach pistol, rifle, and shotgun classes. Both
are certified NRA Range Safety Officers
and are certified by the NRA to instruct people who Refuse To Be
A Victim.
Both Joe and Janet have been trained in the Judicious Use
of Deadly Force personally by Massad Ayoob, the renowned expert
and expert witness in that field. For years they've trained
extensively in the defensive use of firearms with master instructors
such as Ayoob, Chuck Taylor, Louis Awerbuck, and Randy Cain.
Both Joe and Janet are sustaining members of the South Carolina
Police Chiefs Association. They both support and help the South
Carolina Law Enforcement Assistance Program. Janet is on the
Board of Directors of the South Carolina Chaplaincy for Law
Enforcement. Janet also has been featured in Women and Guns magazine.
By now you should realize that we especially welcome
newcomers, women, couples, mature people, and those of diverse backgrounds
in all our classes. We can give you individual instruction
or teach special groups by prior arrangement.
What you see here are some details of just two of
the courses we offer. We also offer other defensive firearms
courses, including the NRA Personal Protection In The Home and Personal
Protection Outside The Home as well as other practical
courses. We'll teach new firearms users the basic shooting
competence they need in each course: new people are always
welcome in our classes. We're motivated to help good people
be able to defend their lives and the lives of their families.
Look forward to our
Home Defense Shotgun course and
others.
For more information and an application to attend our
classes please click on this link to e-mail us:
E-mail Us. We'll be happy to hear from you.
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