NRA Firearms Courses
Our NRA firearms courses introduced students and community members to the fundamentals of safe and responsible gun ownership, including grip, stance, sight alignment, trigger control, reloading, and malfunction awareness. These programs helped build confident shooters and safety-conscious students across Fort Worth and North Texas. Due to time and location constraints, we currently run fewer stand-alone NRA courses than in previous years, but this page remains published for reference, history, and search intent capture.
Fort Worth Combatives is National Rifle Association NRA certified in the following fields:
- Pistol
- Rifle
- Shotgun
- Muzzle-loading Pistol
- Muzzle-loading Rifle
NRA Firearms Courses
This course is at 6 to 14 hours long course and includes classroom and range time learning to shoot the chosen firearm. Students will learn:
- NRA’s rules for safe gun handling
- Firearm parts and operation
- Ammunition
- Shooting fundamentals
- Range rules
- Shooting positions
- Cleaning
- Continued opportunities for skill development.
Students will receive:
- NRA Guide to the Basics handbook
- NRA Gun Safety Rules brochure
- Winchester/NRA Marksmanship Qualification booklet
- Shooting Student Examination
- Course completion certificate
This class is really only recommended for people who really want or have a strong need for a NRA certified course completion certificate.
While we may not have a recurring public class scheduled right now, these fundamentals are reinforced monthly in our ALIVE!™ Core Skills workshops, which emphasize tool access, timing, movement, and decision-making in cooperative partner drills. Check out our weeknight ALIVE! Combatives class along with our Monthly Core Meetups
Check out our Events page for any upcoming NRA Firearms courses!
NRA FIRST STEPS Courses
NRA FIRST Steps course is designed to provide a hands-on introduction to the safe handling and proper orientation to one specific firearm action type for classes of four or fewer students. This course is at least three hours long and includes classroom and range time learning to shoot a specific firearm action type. Students will learn:
- NRA’s rules for safe gun handling
- firearm model's parts and operation
- ammunition
- shooting fundamentals
- cleaning the firearm
- continued opportunities for skill development
Students will receive:
- Basics of Shooting handbook
- NRA Gun Safety Rules brochure
- Winchester/NRA Marksmanship Qualification booklet
- FIRST Steps Course completion certificate.
This class is what we try and point most students to who still want a certificate. It is up to a third of the length and covers just the specific firearm needed.
While we may not have a recurring public class scheduled right now, these fundamentals are reinforced monthly in our ALIVE!™ Core Skills workshops, which emphasize tool access, timing, movement, and decision-making in cooperative partner drills. Check out our weeknight ALIVE! Combatives class along with our Monthly Core Meetups
Check out our Events page for any upcoming NRA First Steps courses!
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