South Carolina CWP
and NRA Basic Pistol Certificate

We combine the required training for a South Carolina CWP with the NRA's Basic Pistol course to give you the most complete class possible. There's no extra cost.

We schedule at least one class a month (usually on the first Saturday of the month) for the dates listed below. We teach additional classes on other dates not in that schedule. We teach special classes too, such as for women, business associates, friends, families, and church members. 

If you don't see a convenient regularly-scheduled class, e-mail us to ask. Let us know if you have a group that would like a special class or a weekday class. Please include your local phone number(s) whenever you e-mail us so we can call to answer your questions and determine your needs.

Our classes are open to people age 21 or older who are legally qualified to own or use firearms. No experience needed. We'll teach you the basics and can lend you a handgun by advance arrangement. Our classes are small and tend to fill quickly. To reserve your place in a class please e-mail us now. Please include your local phone number(s) whenever you e-mail us so we can call to answer your questions and determine your needs.

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We'll instruct you in the law and in firearms safety, and we teach you how to shoot defensively. You don't need experience or even a handgun of your own to take our CWP / Basic Pistol class. We teach you how to choose the right handgun for you and we can lend you one of our own handguns to use in class. 

Our course is approved by SLED (the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division) as the training requirement for South Carolina's Concealed Weapons Permit (CWP) and by the NRA for the Basic Pistol Certificate recognized everywhere. The State of Florida accepts our certificates for its CWP so you can get a Florida non-resident CWP too.

Apply for both South Carolina's and Florida's CWP at the same time when you complete our class. It's worthwhile for many South Carolinians. Florida's CWP is recognized by many more states than South Carolina's, including by Georgia. We provide you with both the South Carolina application and the Florida application, and we'll guide you through them both.

We're on your side. We give you--and you keep--the NRA Guide to the Basics of Pistol Shooting book, current South Carolina laws you must know, and other materials you'll find useful after you've completed this class. (The Guide to the Basics of Pistol Shooting is available separately from the NRA for $19.95.)

We're committed to helping the people who most need to protect themselves. We welcome women, mature adults, couples, and people new to firearms or who are apprehensive about them. Our classes are small so you get individual attention and the help you need. If you want private tutoring before or after you take this class we are happy to arrange personal training for you. Click here to learn more about personal training.

Our instructors are both women and men--people who have raised children and have experience with firearms in the home. We have decades of fulltime professional teaching experience and years of advanced training in what we teach. We are certified by both SLED and the NRA.

Not only are we Certified Instructors in many self-defense disciplines but we also are NRA-appointed Training Counselors certified to teach instructors in those disciplines: we are the instructors who select and teach other instructors. Because safety really is our foremost concern, we also are NRA-certified Chief Range Safety Officers and factory-certified Glock armorers. Click here to learn more about us.

The all-important sections on Firearms and the Law in our classes are taught by instructors trained by Massad Ayoob, the nation's leading expert and expert witness in the judicious use of deadly force. Because we understand the need for CWP holders to behave responsibly in protecting themselves our instructors are among the earliest instructor members in the Armed Citizens' Legal Defense Network. We strive to provide quality instruction in every way.

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Our CWP class has five major parts enhanced for the needs of civilians who want to behave responsibly and protect themselves and their families:

1. Handgun Knowledge, and Safe Gun Handling and Storage;
2. Firearms and the Law, and Avoiding Confrontations;
3. Ammunition Knowledge, Fundamentals of Handgun Shooting, and Handgun Maintenance;
4. Shooting Positions, Range Safety, and Fundamentals Reinforcement;
5. Livefire Exercises.

E-mail us now. Please include your local telephone number(s) so we can call to answer your questions and determine your needs.

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