NRA Courses

 The NRA New Shooter Seminar exposes new gun owners to the fundamentals of firearm safety. This 45–60-minute seminar is a great introduction to the important safety aspects of owning a firearm. 

 NRA FIRST Steps Pistol is designed to provide a hands-on introduction to the safe handling and proper orientation to one specific pistol action type for classes of four or fewer students. This course is at least three hours long and includes classroom and range time learning to shoot a specific pistol action type. Students will learn the NRA’s rules for safe gun handling; the particular pistol model parts and operation; ammunition; shooting fundamentals; cleaning the pistol; and continued opportunities for skill development. Students will receive the Basics of Pistol Shooting handbook, NRA Gun Safety Rules brochure, NRA Marksmanship Qualification booklet, FIRST Steps Course completion certificate. 

 The NRA Basics of Pistol Shooting course is designed for individuals regardless of their previous shooting experience. It provides essential knowledge and skills necessary for owning and using a pistol safely. 

Upon successful completion of the course, students receive a certificate of completion that may be required for applying for concealed carry permits in some states. The course is recognized as a foundational training program for those looking to enhance their shooting skills and knowledge.

 Safety • Fundamentals • Accountability

The Basic Pistol Operator course provides students with a solid, disciplined foundation in pistol handling and marksmanship. This course focuses on safe gun handling, efficient fundamentals, and repeatable performance, forming the base upon which all advanced pistol skills are built.

The goal is not speed or tactics, but competence, confidence, and accountability with a handgun.

 Visual Discipline • Efficiency • Accountability

The MRDS Operator course is designed for shooters who are new to pistol‑mounted red dot sights or transitioning from iron sights. This course focuses on visual processing, presentation efficiency, and dot management, ensuring students can exploit the advantages of an MRDS without developing bad habits.

The emphasis is on building a repeatable system—not speed chasing—so the dot appears naturally, remains stable under recoil, and supports accurate decision‑making.

 Movement • Violence of Action • Precision Under Stress

The Kinetic Pistol Operator course is an advanced handgun program focused on aggressive movement, rapid problem-solving, and decisive gunfighting at close to intermediate distances. Students will learn to fight with a pistol while moving, managing space, angles, and unknowns, bridging the gap between static marksmanship and real-world application.

This course emphasizes efficient biomechanics, threat-focused shooting, and controlled aggression under time and cognitive stress.

 Movement • Angles • Violence of Action

The Kinetic Rifle Operator course is an advanced carbine program designed to develop highly mobile, decisive rifle gunfighters capable of engaging threats while moving through complex environments. This course focuses on speed, positional dominance, and efficient violence of action, integrating rifle handling, movement, and decision-making under stress.

Students will learn to fight with the rifle, not simply shoot it—bridging the gap between square-range proficiency and dynamic, real-world application.

 Identification • Movement • Decision Dominance

The Pistol Low-Light Tactician course develops the skills required to fight, identify, and make correct decisions with a pistol in reduced and no-light environments. This course emphasizes threat identification, light discipline, movement, and accountability, integrating both handheld lights (HHL) and weapon-mounted lights (WML) into real-world pistol employment.

Students will learn when to use light, when not to, and how to maintain tactical advantage without sacrificing safety or legal accountability.

 Identification • Light Discipline • Positional Dominance

The Rifle Low-Light Tactician course prepares students to fight, identify, and maneuver with a rifle in low-light and no-light conditions using a weapon-mounted light (WML) as the primary illumination tool, while maintaining a handheld light (HHL) as a redundancy (Plan-B) and problem-solving option when the rifle cannot be safely or effectively employed.

This course emphasizes accountability, controlled aggression, and disciplined light use, ensuring students can dominate the dark without sacrificing safety, legality, or situational awareness.

 Isolation • Decision Dominance • Controlled Violence

The Single-Person CQB course prepares students to operate alone in close-quarters environments, where speed, discipline, and decision-making replace team-based tactics. This course addresses the reality that solo operators—patrol officers, first responders, armed professionals, and private citizens—may be forced to enter, clear, or fight within confined spaces without immediate support.

The focus is on survivability, positional advantage, and accountability, not room-clearing choreography.

 Synchronization • Angles • Decision Dominance

The Team CQB course is designed to build cohesive, disciplined teams capable of clearing and dominating close-quarters environments through synchronized movement, communication, and controlled violence of action. This course emphasizes simple, repeatable methods that allow teams to function effectively under stress, limited visibility, and time constraints.

The focus is not speed for speed’s sake, but positional dominance, mutual support, and accountability.

 Speed • Judgment • Life Preservation

The Single-Person Response to Active Violence course prepares individuals who may be first on scene and alone to recognize, move toward, and interrupt an ongoing act of violence until additional resources arrive. This course acknowledges the reality that waiting is often not an option, and that decisive, disciplined action by a single responder can save lives.

The emphasis is on threat interruption, safe movement, identification, and post-engagement control, not solo heroics or room-clearing perfection.

 Speed • Coordination • Life Preservation

The Team Response to Active Violence course prepares small teams to rapidly deploy, move, and interrupt ongoing acts of violence in dynamic, high-stress environments. Unlike traditional deliberate CQB, this course prioritizes immediate threat stoppage, team coordination, and decision dominance over perfect clearing techniques.

The course reflects real-world constraints: incomplete information, civilians in motion, auditory chaos, and compressed timelines—where seconds matter and teamwork saves lives.

 Discipline • Accountability • Controlled Violence

The Live Fire CQB course is an advanced program designed to validate close-quarters skills under real ballistic consequence. This course transitions students from dry-fire, SIMs, and force-on-force into live-fire environments, reinforcing muzzle discipline, movement control, communication, and decision-making at the highest standard.

Live fire CQB is not about speed for spectacle—it is about precision, restraint, and disciplined execution when mistakes carry irreversible consequences.

  Angles • Ballistics • Disciplined Violence

The Vehicle CQB – Live Fire course prepares students to fight in, around, and through vehicles using live ammunition, addressing one of the most complex and hazardous environments in close-quarters combat. Vehicles create unique ballistic challenges, limited mobility, hard angles, and extreme safety risks—making disciplined execution non‑negotiable.

This course validates vehicle-based CQB skills under real recoil, noise, and consequence, focusing on survivability, threat interruption, and accountability, not speed for spectacle.