Description
This is a private “In-person Classroom” CCW class to fulfill the 16-hour training requirement for a California Concealed Firearm Permit. Currently, Los Angeles and San Diego County Sheriff’s Departments require their approved courses be taught in-person and this course offers that training in a private setting. Applicants for Orange and Ventura Counties can also take this “in-person” version if they prefer it to our online blended learning, but that option is also available to them. California law requires an initial CCW applicant to receive a minimum of 16 hours of approved training. This course meets and exceeds this training requirement and is approved by Ventura, Orange, San Diego, Los Angles County Sheriff’s Departments, and most city PDs within Los Angeles County that do their own license issuing. The rates you see listed in the registration are based on a private class for one person. If you have someone else that would like to take the class with you, please contact us for group discounting.
Scheduling Your Training Days
Because the required curriculum is now 16 hours, this full in-person course takes one and one-half days to complete. Generally that entails meeting on a weekday evening for several hours on Day 1 and then doing a full Day 2 on another weekday. We can also divide the 16 hours into two 8-hour days. Some weekends may be available, but that is usually when we’re teaching the public classes. For the classroom portion of your course, we meet at your home or office or you can come to our office in Huntington Beach. If you’d like us to travel to your location for both days of classroom instruction, there’s a $100 travel surcharge added. If you’d like us to travel to your location in San Diego, Los Angeles, or Ventura, the travel surcharge is $200 per day. On Day 2, we’ll head to the range after taking the written test. We use several ranges in Orange County (Orange and Stanton currently) and one or two in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. Consequently, where we go just depends on their availability and closeness to where we meet for the classroom instruction. Scheduling is generally flexible on weekdays. Please note that after registering and gaining access to the online class, you’ll have 6 months to complete the curriculum and to schedule your range date. After that time, your payment may be forfeited or at minimum there may be a price increase. This is due to changing range fees that we cover in your behalf and other operating expenses that we have no control over. Please see the tab below about cancellations and changes for further information or contact us if you have any other questions.
Other Sign-up Options
The basic details are found by clicking on the “Class Details” tab to the side of this box. Please read ALL of the tabs regarding what to expect from class, what to bring, and the terms for cancellation or rescheduling.
Also, if you’re interested in adding the optional “multi-state CCW” qualification and for the optional fingerprinting, we can still arrange the required one-hour of training privately, but the cost is $100 for the additional time. The options for fingerprinting for those states are also available below in the checkout. We will also need to arrange the location where we will meet to accomplish the multi-state optional one-hour course because the ranges do not always have a classroom available. You are also always welcome to join our public classes at the rate of $30 for that optional training.
If you’re interested in a full “in-person” public class instead of a private class, the cost is $350. Please check our course page to see if a public class is currently scheduled.
Class Details
This course material has been approved by the sheriff’s departments listed as acceptable in meeting the training requirements for Initial and Renewal CCW applicants. Otherwise, there is no affiliation with their respective agencies. We’re not employed by them, nor do they endorse any specific training provider.
The course price includes everything you’ll need in class (targets, range fee, handouts, etc.) for qualifying up to 3 guns. You must provide your own ammunition.
Classroom and Range
In California, you must have at least one handgun listed on your CCW license and you may only carry the guns listed on your license. That means it must be registered to you (or your spouse or domestic partner in some counties) and that firearm must be brought to class to be qualified at the range so it can be listed on your CCW permit. If you do not yet have a handgun, you cannot complete the CCW course or be granted a permit so please make sure you have that arranged before attending class.
For Orange, Ventura, and San Diego County applicants who want to qualify more than 3 guns, you can add up to 2 additional guns for $25. In other words, $25 will cover a 4th and 5th gun, $50 will cover up to 6 or 7 guns, etc. Adding more guns to your license can currently be done at any time in Orange and San Diego Counties. Los Angeles and Ventura will only allow it to be done at the time of your license renewal. When you register, you will see the “gun-add on” option suggestion at the bottom of the page. If you’ll be qualifying more than 3 guns, please also place the “add-on” in your shopping cart. Due to the way the shopping cart is set-up with the online course, this option has to be added this way.
Please have the firearm(s) you will list on your permit ready for the in-person portion of class. We have to verify for your sheriff that you know how to take the gun apart for cleaning so please arrive with it disassembled (just have the slide off for a semi-automatic), unloaded, and in a locked container. We DO NOT allow LIVE AMMUNITION in class. For obvious reasons, safety is of extreme importance as we’re handling our guns and some students may have little experience, so please do not bring any ammunition with your guns or in your bags. We will verify this several times throughout the session. Leave the ammo in your vehicles.
For the Orange County issued license, you’ll need at least 30 rounds for each handgun you’d like to list on the license. If you’re applying through L.A. County or most cities in their county, you’ll need at least 80 rounds for your first handgun. We say that you need at least 80 for your FIRST handgun, because if you’re shooting more than one handgun, your next guns only require 20 rounds each. The same goes for adding a gun to your existing permit for L.A., in which case you’ll only need 20 rounds. Ventura County applicants have a different qualification course and will need at least 30 rounds per gun. San Diego County applicants will need at least 100 rounds for your first gun and if you have subsequent guns, you’ll need at least 30 rounds per gun.
The range doesn’t allow Russian, Polish, or Czech ammo or aluminum casings. It sounds strange, but they’ve had problems with brands such as PPU, Silver Bear, Brown Bear, Tula, etc. rupturing and causing safety hazards. You will however need to bring eye and ear protection or plan on buying it at the range or classroom. The range no longer has them available to borrow nor rent unfortunately. You will not need any holsters. It’s simply too dangerous to draw at full speed from the holster in live fire with so many people new to using the technique. Instead, we’ll be using plastic training guns and holsters in class to practice. The training guns are also available for sale if you would like to purchase them. Please have a pen or pencil to take notes.
Optional Multi-State CCW Qualification
Currently, only 35 other states recognize the California CCW permit as valid or don’t require a CCW permit allow you to carry around the U.S. By obtaining the Utah, Arizona, and/or Florida CCW non-resident permits, you can extend your legal coverage up to 38 states besides California. Come in an hour earlier before your California CCW class and we’ll finish the instruction to sign you off on the Utah permit training and provide you documentation to present to Florida and/or Arizona as well. We teach the multi-state CCW permit classes by themselves too. You don’t have to take the California CCW class if you only want the UT, AZ, or FL permits. The normal going rate for training in California is between $100-$125. Although we normally instruct the course for $60, we’ll add the instruction to your California CCW class for $30! Look for the multi-state option to add to your cart at the bottom of the page once you add the California class.
Going around town to get your fingerprints and photos done for the multi-state permits can also be an inconvenience. Let us handle it for you. On average, we offer rates less-expensive than anywhere else you could go. If you’re still not sure which of the optional states you want to apply for and if you want fingerprints done for them, don’t worry because we’ll walk you through the benefits of each during class. You can decide and pay at that point for the fingerprinting if you need time to decide.
Terms & Conditions
When do I take the class?
Different counties have different requirements as to when this course can be taken in the application process and how long it is deemed valid. Currently, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department no longer requires you to be pre-approved to take your training class. In fact, you may take the class up to 6 months before final issuance of your permit. Ventura County also allows you to take the class before your conditional approval, but they request that you at least have your application submitted and interview scheduled. San Diego will accept the class as valid for 90 days, but they would like you to at least wait until you’ve paid your initial fee and had your fingerprints taken. Although wait times in most counties are moving much faster and you should have time to complete the process in the window when the class is still valid, we still can’t guarantee the county sheriffs or DOJ background processing will be done by then.
We DO NOT offer a refund if you take the class and are later rejected for any reason in the application process. We cannot guarantee that any applicant will be granted a license. If you have a clean criminal background, Ventura and Orange Counties have a very high success rate of 98% or more for approvals, but nevertheless, they cannot compel you to take the class before a conditional approval. San Diego and Los Angeles Counties currently request that the applicant wait until after they receive their approval notification before taking the training course.
Cancellation policy
We understand that sometimes things come up and your schedule changes. We’re fairly flexible to allow you to make up portions of the day you missed or to reschedule all together, but please advise us within 24 hours of the class to be fair to those trying to get in on a waiting list.
If you’re taking an Online “Blended-Learning” class, it is your responsibility to have all of the online modules and quizzes showing as completed before attending your range date. If this has not been done yet, it will be counted the same as a “reschedule”. A $50 rescheduling fee will be assessed if any class or range date changes are made within a week of the class date and we’re unable to fill your spot. This is because we have to commit our dates to the range and we need the classes filled in order to make it economically feasible. We do allow full cancellation and refund (minus any processing fees that the credit card company will not return to us) within 24 hours of purchasing. Cancellations made beyond 24 hours of your purchase will be counted as credit toward a future class, except in rare emergency situations. Additionally, no cancellations will be refunded if the purchase is made within 72 hours of the start of any in-person portion of the course. Please understand that we rely on dependable attendance in order to offer the low rates we do. We cannot issue refunds for classes purchased beyond 5 months due to credit card processing fees and changing operating costs.
Finally, in regards to the Online “Blended-Learning” classes, these courses involve considerable overhead in time and production resources to host online and maintain. Just like any other e-learning course, students are participating in receiving useful knowledge and instruction, which is compiled from several professional training sources. When a student begins viewing the e-learning course, they’re being provided a service (training and expertise). The valid transaction of paying for and accepting this training is not contingent on whether the student chooses whether or not to apply for a CCW license, is ultimately granted a license, fails the course, or makes an error in taking the correct class. While we hope that students find the information useful (most are successful in obtaining a CCW), how a student uses or doesn’t use the course is outside of our control. Understand that e-learning instruction is viewed in the same manner as an “all in-person” course that imparts knowledge in a physical classroom. Consequently, refunds cannot be offered for online courses where the student has already begun viewing the content. Before starting, please ensure that you’re taking the correct course and that it serves your intended purpose.
