NRA Instructor courses : Pistol & Rifle, Feb - March 2017

[FCG LLC]

Hello all,

We are running the NRA Basic Pistol and NRA Basic Rifle Instructor courses this Feb/March.

Do you have the drive, experience and dedication to be a certified NRA instructor? Best way to find out is to get your feet wet!

All NRA instructor candidates must sit the NRA's "Basic Instructor Training". We (instructor trainers) are not allowed to advertise nor run this as a stand alone class. This BIT course will be held on Saturday Feb 25th, from 9am to 5:30pm.

Pistol Instructor is on 2/25, 3/04, 3/11 - NRA Basic Pistol Instructor - Feb / Mar 2017
Rifle Instructor on 2/25, 3/05, 3/11 - NRA Basic Rifle Instructor March 2017

All classroom sessions are conducted in Yonkers, NY.
Range activities for both will be on Sat March 11th at Blue Mountain Sportsman Center.

As a reminder, all new instructor candidates must sit BIT (Basic Instructor Training), all currently certified instructors seeking either/both of these disciplines must have sat BIT within the past two years.

 

[NYGuns]

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[FCG LLC]

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[Glenn B]

Hello all,

All NRA instructor candidates must sit the NRA's "Basic Instructor Training".

I am interested in taking the rifle course but by the above are you telling me that as a currently certified NRA Law Enforcement instructor for handgun and shotgun that I would need to take basic Instructor training before I could enroll in this class?

How much is the rifle course? Ho long is the certification valid?

Thanks,
Glenn B

 

[FCG LLC]

I am interested in taking the rifle course but by the above are you telling me that as a currently certified NRA Law Enforcement instructor for handgun and shotgun that I would need to take basic Instructor training before I could enroll in this class?

How much is the rifle course? Ho long is the certification valid?

Thanks,
Glenn B

@Glenn B

Hi Glenn,

If you held the NRA LE Patrol Rifle, Select Fire or Tactical Instructor ratings you could lateral into the non-LE instructor program. I'll reach out to the NRA today to see if they allow NRA LE to bypass NRA BIT. I hold NRA LE Pistol/Shotgun & Tactical Weapons certifications, and I've had a few NRA LE in the classes where they did not exempt those candidates, but it has been a few years.
The Basic Rifle Instructor course with BIT is $300.00

NRA Basic Instructor certifications do not at this time expire. Certified instructors are required to pay $30 every 2 years (NRA members...non NRA members pay $50/2 years) to maintain certification. The is no current requirement for ongoing education, or proof of running courses to maintain these certifications.

 

[Glenn B]

@Glenn B

Hi Glenn,

If you held the NRA LE Patrol Rifle, Select Fire or Tactical Instructor ratings you could lateral into the non-LE instructor program. I'll reach out to the NRA today to see if they allow NRA LE to bypass NRA BIT. I hold NRA LE Pistol/Shotgun & Tactical Weapons certifications, and I've had a few NRA LE in the classes where they did not exempt those candidates, but it has been a few years.
The Basic Rifle Instructor course with BIT is $300.00

NRA Basic Instructor certifications do not at this time expire. Certified instructors are required to pay $30 every 2 years (NRA members...non NRA members pay $50/2 years) to maintain certification. The is no current requirement for ongoing education, or proof of running courses to maintain these certifications.

PM sent.

 

[nortatoga]

@Glenn B

Hi Glenn,

If you held the NRA LE Patrol Rifle, Select Fire or Tactical Instructor ratings you could lateral into the non-LE instructor program. I'll reach out to the NRA today to see if they allow NRA LE to bypass NRA BIT. I hold NRA LE Pistol/Shotgun & Tactical Weapons certifications, and I've had a few NRA LE in the classes where they did not exempt those candidates, but it has been a few years.
The Basic Rifle Instructor course with BIT is $300.00

NRA Basic Instructor certifications do not at this time expire. Certified instructors are required to pay $30 every 2 years (NRA members...non NRA members pay $50/2 years) to maintain certification. The is no current requirement for ongoing education, or proof of running courses to maintain these certifications.

@FCG LLC You may want to check into the NRA wanting to see instructors doing classes, A friend lost his certification for not using it ! I do the First Steps Rifle Orientation for new members at my Club. This is something new that they want to see instructors active.

 

[FCG LLC]

@FCG LLC You may want to check into the NRA wanting to see instructors doing classes, A friend lost his certification for not using it ! I do the First Steps Rifle Orientation for new members at my Club. This is something new that they want to see instructors active.

@nortatoga

Hi Nortatoga,

You may be right - in 2014 NRA Training Counselors (like myself) were given updated training instructions that

a) NRA instructors would need to show proof of continuing education and/or
b) activity as an instructor.

I made a query about a month ago, and that policy is yet not implemented. If it were, and that were the case, I would be hearing from A LOT of instructors - because I've certified dozens - more than 100 who have never created a course, taught a course or assisted with a NRA course.

if I were to guess, I would say your associate possibly did not renew his certifications before they expired, and then did not renew within the grace period. If and when that happens, then yes, your instructor ratings disappear. I have a colleague who is retired NYPD (LT) currently attached to the Dept of State and has a slew of FLETC/Fed LE /NYS DCJS firearms instructor certs. He is stationed overseas, forgot to process his NRA recerts, the grace period window also ran out. He lost his Pistol Instructor, RSO and Personal Protection Inside the Home Instructor ratings and has to re-sit the 6 hr Basic Instructor Training again, and re-sit all and any certs he had prior.

For any currently certified NRA Basic Firearms Instructor (to differentiate from NRA LE) that wants to add other certs, if more than two years has elapsed since they took BIT, they must re-sit BIT again.

I end my post by saying - you may be right! I have seen some odd things pop out of that Training Dept. I really do try to stay on top of what my roles and responsibilities are with making new instructors, and even with maintaining my own instructor ratings...so I will definitely look into what you are saying and probably send you a message.