The National Network for CCW Instructors
Get Connected With Students Who Need Your Training
We are currently accepting firearms instructors, ranges, and professional training providers for the founding nationwide network serving concealed carry, live-fire qualification, multi-state firearms training, and related professional training needs.
Profile Dimension
Range Affiliation
Live-fire qualification · Multi-state
Two Paths
What Brings You Here?
Looking for an Instructor?
Find firearms instructors for CCW training, live-fire qualification, fingerprinting, private instruction and professional firearms training.
Are You an Instructor?
Join a growing national network designed to help instructors receive referrals and connect students with qualified training providers across the country.
Who We Are
Built by Instructors, for Instructors
USCCWInstructors.com was created by firearms instructors who have spent years helping students find qualified instructors across the country. In doing that work, we discovered a problem: there is no single, current national resource that accurately organizes firearms instructors by credentials, services, location, agency approvals, range relationships, and availability.
Existing information is scattered across government lists, certification organizations, training companies, ranges, individual websites, and older directories. We believe the firearms-training community needs something better. USCCWInstructors is being built as a free professional network where instructors can confirm their information, receive student referrals, refer students to qualified instructors in other markets, and become part of a more comprehensive national instructor resource.
Our goal is simple: make it easier for instructors to help students — and easier for students to find the right instructor.
No charge to join
Participation in the network is free — no paid memberships or paid listings.
No class calendar
We do not require you to maintain another class calendar.
No booking platform
We do not require you to adopt another booking platform.
We maintain the resource
We intend to organize and maintain the information so you don't have to constantly manage another online profile.
USCCWInstructors is independent of any single certification organization, training company, range, legal-service provider, or booking platform. Instructors with certifications, affiliations, and relationships from many different organizations are welcome.
Our Story
Why We Built It
We were already referring students to instructors across the country. The difficult part was finding current information. Instructors retire. Certifications change. Agency approvals change. Range relationships change. Some instructors stop accepting students, while other highly qualified instructors can be surprisingly difficult to find.
Instead of continuing to rely on disconnected lists, spreadsheets, and directories, we decided to build the resource we wished already existed.
Why Join
More Than an Instructor Listing
USCCWInstructors is being built to connect qualified instructors with students whose specific training needs match their certifications, agency approvals, location, and services. Whether you teach locally or serve students pursuing multi-state permits, your professional profile helps us understand when you may be the right instructor for a training opportunity.
- Where you teach
- Your base of operations and the areas you serve.
- What you are certified to teach
- The credentials that define the scope of your instruction.
- Which agencies approve you
- Issuing-authority approvals, tracked separately from certifications.
- What services you provide
- Classroom, live-fire, renewals, fingerprinting, and private training.
- Where you conduct training
- Ranges, classrooms, and facilities you use or have access to.
- When you are available
- Whether you are currently accepting students.
Profile Capabilities
One profile built around the dimensions that matter
Each dimension is tracked as distinct information — certifications, approvals, services, and affiliations are never treated as interchangeable.
- Certifications
- Professional training credentials such as California DOJ, NRA, USCCA, Utah BCI, and other recognized instructor certifications. Identification numbers are never requested or displayed.
- Agency Approvals
- Recognition from individual issuing authorities — especially in California, where sheriffs, police departments, and counties may maintain their own approved training providers.
- Services
- CCW instruction, classroom training, live-fire qualification, renewals, private firearms training, fingerprinting, and related services.
- Range Affiliations
- Ranges and training facilities where an instructor owns, works, teaches, or has authorized training access.
- Multi-State Training
- Capability to help students complete requirements associated with multiple permit programs.
- Professional Affiliations
- Training organizations, associations, and legal-service or membership organizations. Holding a certification does not by itself create an affiliation.
Multi-State Opportunity
Your Training May Serve Students Far Beyond Your Local Market
Students increasingly pursue multiple permits and may complete different portions of their training in different locations. A student might complete an online educational component through one provider, an in-person course through another instructor, and live-fire qualification while traveling in another state.
California, Utah, Arizona, and Hawaii are examples of markets within the network's multi-state training focus. Requirements differ by program and jurisdiction, and nothing here should be read as legal guidance.
Example — one student, three providers
Online educational component
Completed through one provider.
In-person course
Completed with another instructor.
Live-fire qualification
Completed while traveling in another state.
Ranges & Training Facilities
Ranges Are Part of the Network Too
Many instructors are independent, while others own, work for, or maintain relationships with shooting ranges and training facilities. We track live-fire availability, classroom facilities, affiliated instructors, training programs, and fingerprinting services for ranges and facilities. Student booking integration is a future capability.
- Range owners
- Training academies
- Firearms schools
- Private training facilities
- Security training academies
Professional Security Training
Beyond Concealed Carry Training
Concealed carry training remains the primary focus of the network, which also welcomes qualified providers offering professional security training.
- Armed guard training
- Unarmed guard training
- Guard card training
- Firearms qualification and requalification
- Executive protection training
- Use-of-force training
- Corporate and security-team firearms training
Regulatory authorization for this work varies by jurisdiction. Provider information will be tracked separately from general firearms certifications.
How It Works
A simple, mobile-friendly path — no complicated software
Many instructors are independent professionals who do not want another complicated technology platform. The experience is intentionally simple.
Join
Tell us who you are and where you teach.
Build Your Profile
Add certifications, services, agency approvals, range affiliations, and professional capabilities.
Verify
Help us keep important credentials, approvals, and availability current.
Connect
As network services expand, qualified instructors can be connected with relevant student opportunities.
Referrals
Built for Referrals — Not Just Listings
The long-term network is being designed to identify instructors who can satisfy specific student training requirements, rather than simply publishing a large instructor directory. That matching capability is under development and is not operational today.
Founding Network
Help Us Build the National Instructor Network Our Industry Has Been Missing
We are currently inviting qualified instructors to become part of the founding network and help establish the initial national instructor database. Whether you are an independent instructor, range instructor, training company, retired law-enforcement trainer, security instructor, or range owner, we want to learn about the training you provide.