Fairfax, VA -(AmmoLand.com)- In response to the growing number of first-time gun buyers during the coronavirus outbreak, the National Rifle Association’s Education & Training Division is pleased to announce the launch of four new online gun safety courses.
“These courses will provide an option for first-time gun owners who don’t have the ability to take an NRA certified instructor-led class at their local shooting range at this time,” said Joe DeBergalis, executive director of NRA General Operations. “While there is no replacement for in-person, instructor-led training, our new online classes do provide the basics of firearm safety training for those self-isolating at home.”
Those courses include:
- Gun Safety Seminar
- NRA Basic Pistol Shooting Course – Distance Learning
- NRA Basic Rifle Shooting Course – Distance Learning
- NRA Basic Personal Protection In The Home Course – Distance Learning
Each course, lasting from one to eight hours, is available at NRAInstructors.org.
Though range time is part of some of the classes (Basics of Pistol Shooting – Distance Learning & Personal Protection in the Home – Distance Learning), there is still a wealth of knowledge available in every online section.
“The NRA recommends that all new gun owners seek professional training at the range, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get a head start on learning the basics of firearm safety at home. New gun owners, old gun owners, it doesn’t really matter. Taking one of these classes moderated by a certified NRA instructor, can only make you safer and that’s our primary goal,” DeBergalis added.
The NRA also offers the award-winning gun accident prevention Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program (eddieeagle.nra.org) nationwide and the NRA Hunters Education program (NRA.yourlearningportal.com) in selected states to help those safeguard their home and to be safe and responsible when they go afield.
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While widely recognized today as a major political force and as America’s foremost defender of Second Amendment rights, the NRA has, since its inception, been the premier firearms education organization in the world. Visit: www.nra.org
In most cases, when something is “offered” and they don’t give you the price there is a good reason for not including it. Looks like LaPierre is taking advantage of the so-called “crisis” to make some more money for himself while appearing to provide a needed service.
The only way to save the organization is to refocus on the original mission statement and stick to it. Leave the fighting to the organizations like 2AF, GOA and the state groups like Arizona Citizens defense League. A clean division between education/recreation and political advocacy and litigation keeps both sides focused on winning the war for natural rights but from different avenues of approach. In the end this will be a good thing for NRA. As a kid I viewed the NRA as a place to learn the shooting sports and to participate. Before the advent of the Progressive New… Read more »
LaPierre, fiddling while the NRA burns.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/after-cutting-salaries-the-nra-has-laid-off-60-employees/
https://helpsavethenra.com/articles-related-to-whats-going-on-at-the-nra-aug-2019/
Hopefully this will come across better than Negotiating Rights Away’s failed on line instructors training did.
Wonder if they will push their wine club at the end of each session as Wayne La Pew Pews suits have to be paid for one way or another and then there is his girlfriends make overs.
Another LaPierre scheme to dupe “New Shooters” into sending him money.
LaPierre is spending millions of dollars a month from membership funds not to defend the NRA, but rather to pay for his own personal legal defense.
Covid-19 is not responsible for the NRA’s current financial crisis. The LaPierre Virus is the untreated infection that’s been sucking the financial lifeblood out of the NRA for decades.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/nra-furloughing-more-employees-suspending-401k-matching-contributions/
https://helpsavethenra.com/articles-related-to-whats-going-on-at-the-nra-aug-2019/
About time
THIS IS GREAT !!!!!! The NRA can start teaching gun safety to the geriatric I just saw sporting a bumper sticker that said , and I quote “It takes a special kind of stup[id to think criminals will obey gun laws” No Cletus. It takes a special kind of stupid to deny that gun safety laws work, which they do or that gun safety means banning all guns. Both claims are the fraud and ignorance spouted by those opposed to common sense gun safety laws . Gun safety laws work. And clearly, in a nation that has 130 to 150… Read more »