NRA Home Firearm Safety Instructor Training (HFSIT) Class

Class Length: 3 hours (normally 5 hours)
Class Prerequisites
Home Firearm Safety Instructor Pre Course Qualification Test
Class Description
Class Schedule
How to Apply

The NRA's Home Firearm Safety (HFS) course teaches people who do not own guns how to be safe with them in the home. It is not a shooting class. Its focus is on kinds of firearms commonly encountered at home. Families, friends, and neighbors of hunters, military, law enforcement and other gun owners can live without fear if they understand the simple firearms essentials that our NRA certified Home Firearm Safety Instructors can teach them.

CWP holders who carry a handgun for protection will benefit from practical knowledge that includes how lo handle rifles, shotguns, and other handguns safely. We teach our NRA certified Home Firearm Safety Instructors to take special interest in child safety. Our NRA certified Home Firearm Safety Instructors make this class a firearm safety class suitable for everyone—not only gun owners—in a free society.

Our NRA Home Firearm Safety Instructor Training (HFSIT)  course is designed to develop NRA Certified Instructors who possess the knowledge, skills, and attitude necessary to conduct the NRA Home Firearm Safety class.

A distinctive feature of our course and the way we teach is that we use  real guns instead of merely sketches, photographs, or other ephemera. We think it's the right way to teach instructors the essential manipulations they need to understand before they can teach their students. We deal in reality. For that reason we also believe that every firearms instructor should be a well-trained, certified, home firearm safety instructor.

NRA Home Firearm Safety Instructor Training begins with the NRA Basic Instructor Training class, which must be completed before this class Both classes together form the required course for NRA Home Firearm Safety Instructor certification. (You are not considered an NRA Certified Instructor until the NRA Training Department processes your application and issues your instructor credentials.)

Prerequisites

To enroll in the NRA Home Firearm Safety Instructor Training class you must:

1. complete our NRA Basic Instructor Training class;
2. send us an application to the class, an NRA Pre-Course Questionnaire, and payment of the current class fee; and
3. achieve satisfactory scores in an NRA Pre-Course Qualification that we conduct for promising potential Instructor candidates.

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Home Firearm Safety Instructor Pre Course Qualification Test

You must have demonstrable familiarity unloading and safely handling the following action types of handguns, rifles and shotguns: 

1. single-action revolver,
2. double-action revolver,
3. semi-automatic pistol,
4. bolt-action rifle,
5. semi-automatic rifle,
6. pump-action shotgun,
7. hinge-action shotgun 

The NRA states that "Only those candidates who achieve satisfactory scores in the pre-course qualification, and who meet other specified requirements for NRA instructors, are eligible for certification." Here is the basic Home Firearm Safety Instructor Pre Course Qualification that we modify, adapt, and apply at our discretion.  

All NRA instructor training is a two-part course. The first part is the NRA Basic Instructor Training class. It is Lessons I-V of every instructor training course. Here are the scheduled Basic Instructor Training class dates. (If you have completed a sufficiently recent Basic Instructor Training class from us we may exempt you from the need to retake it.) The second part of Home Firearm Safety Instructor Training is the Hoime Firearm Safety Instructor Training class itself: this class, the class described on this page.

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Class Description

The NRA Home Firearm Safety Instructor Training class starts where NRA Basic Instructor Training stops: with Lesson VI. The class proceeds through three major lessons that teach you how to conduct the NRA Home Firearm Safety course step by step using the NRA Home Firearm Safety Shooting Course Outline and Lesson Plans, both of which we give you. NRA Home Firearm Safety Instructor Training concludes with an open book examination and other preliminaries to certification by the NRA. We also give you the book.

The NRA Home Firearm Safety Instructor Training course is not a shooting class. You do not bring a firearm or ammunition to this class. We bring examples of the major action types to demonstrate and explain for you. We use real, working firearms—not illustrations, pictures, toys, or other substitutes for the real thing. We include specific kinds of guns (handguns, rifles, and shotguns) that you might encounter in South Carolina and neighboring states with a relatively large concentration of military bases and military families.

Here are the lessons in the NRA Rifle Instructor Training class:

6. Introduction to "NRA Basic Rifle Shooting Course Outline and Lesson Plans"

7. Teaching Home Firearm Safety Lesson I and II: Rules for Safe Gun Handling and Identifying and Unloading Different Firearms

8. Teaching Home Firearm Safety Lesson III and IV: Practical Exercise in Safe Gun Handling and Types of Ammunition; Cleaning and Storage of Firearms

9. Home Fireazrm Safety Instructor Examination and Course Conclusion.
   

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Class Schedule

When offered as a separate class the NRA Home Firearm Safety Instructor Training course has a minimum length of five hours. We offer the NRA Home Firearm Safety Instructor Training as an optional supplement to the NRA Pistol Instructor Training course for students registered in that discipline-specific class on its scheduled date. That way the NRA Home Firearm Safety Instructor Training class takes just three hours and costs substantially less. 

We add classes throughout the year. If you do not find a satisfactory class date on this schedule you can reserve a place on the waiting list for a future class.

How to Apply

Email us now if you're interested in attending an NRA Home Firearm Safety Instructor training class. We talk with prospective students first. Please be sure to include your telephone number(s) so we can call to prequalify you for the class, determine your needs, and answer your questions.

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