Firearms Instructor Development & Certification with Tom Givens

This is an intensive four-day course, with a lot of classroom work and a lot of shooting. Candidates must pass an extensive written examination, pass a shooting qualification, and deliver a brief classroom presentation. Students receive a 170 page instructor manual, which is a valuable reference source. Students will shoot their own sidearms during this class, and will also shoot a variety of other handguns for familiarization.

This course is geared toward teaching you how to teach others. You will gain a good bit of experience in coaching others; spotting, identifying, and correcting common shooting errors; course design and documentation; and other topics. You will also increase your own shooting skills. Students should already have basic shooting/gunhandling skills and be above average shots prior to this course.

Equipment list below the Read More link.

TUITION: $575

Tom Givens is the owner/operator of Rangemaster, a premier training and shooting facility in Memphis, TN, to which he has dedicated his full time efforts since 1996. Before that, Givens completed a 25 year career in law enforcement and specialized security work. At Rangemaster, his duties have included firearms instruction, and he has trained law enforcement officers at the local, state, and federal level; foreign government agents; and military personnel including members of the 20th Special Forces Group.

Given's education, training, and experience in this field includes FBI certified Firearms Instructor, Graduate-NRA Law Enforcement Firearms Instructor Development School, NRA Law Enforcement Tactical Shooting Instructor School, Certified Handgun Instructor, Tennessee, Graduate-U.S. Army Instructor School, Graduate with Expert Certificate Gunsite Training Center API 499, Graduate-Advanced Tactical Pistol, Tactical Explosives Entry School, attended numerous other schools and seminars across the U.S.
 

He is author of five published textbooks, including Fighting Smarter, numerous DVD lecture presentations, and over one hundred published magazine articles in S.W.A.T. Magazine, Combat Handguns Magazine, and others. Givens holds numerous championship titles in IDPA competition, and formerly completed in I.P.S.C. as an A-Class shooter.
 

Member of these professional associations: National Rifle Association, Police Marksman Association (Life Member), American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers, American Society for Industrial Security, International Wound Ballistics Association. He is a certified Expert Witness on Firearms, and Police Firearms Training, in both state and federal courts. Givens has made hundreds of arrests, including numerous armed felons and has successfully used a handgun to defend himself and others against armed criminals.

Tom Givens' Instructor Development and Certification Class Equipment List

A reliable handgun in caliber .38 Special or 9mm or greater

A safe belt holster suitable for concealment

At least 3 magazines or speed loaders and pouches

1200 rounds of full metal jacket ammunition

Wrap-around eye protection, a brimmed ball cap, ear muffs and kneepads.

Due to the nature of the instruction, we must require that students have a valid, state-issued permit or license to carry a concealed weapon, police or military I.D. or a letter from your local law enforcement agency showing that they have performed a full background check on you and that you have no criminal history.