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How to Choose a Firearms Training Class and Spot Bad Instructors | Gun Talk Nation

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4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

How do you choose a good firearms training class, and what should you do if the instructor is unsafe, unhelpful, or simply wastes your time? In this episode of Gun Talk Nation, Ryan Gresham and Chris Cerino break down how to evaluate pistol and carbine classes, what bad training looks like, how to test your gear in class, and why tight groups, reliable equipment, and practical gun handling matter more than internet myths.

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Gun Talk Media's Gun Talk Nation with Ryan Gresham is a weekly multi-platform podcast that offers a fresh look at all things firearms-related. Featuring notable guests and a lot of laughs. Gun Talk Nation is available as an audio podcast or in video format.

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0:00.0

Do you want to get training, you pay all this money,

0:02.8

you take time off from work, you travel,

0:05.5

you show up with all of your gear, excited to learn,

0:08.3

and the guy's a freaking asshole.

0:10.5

What do you do?

0:11.5

Right away, you've got to tell people to piss off.

0:20.1

I'm Ryan Gresham.

0:23.1

And this is Gun Talk Nation.

0:27.4

This is Gun Talk Nation.

0:34.3

Gun Talk Nation is brought to you by CZ USA, Silent Steel, Vortex, Range Ready, FN, Eotech, Taurus, and Remington Ammunition.

0:49.3

All right, welcome in to Gun Talk Nation. Gun Talk Nation this week we're going to have our

0:53.8

director of training of range ready studios, Chris Serino,

0:57.0

because Chris, we have to talk about training and classes and the types of things that you see

1:03.9

and the things that happen in classes because although there's not, you know,

1:10.4

what we always say, and people listen to this may or may not know, there's whatever, there's not, you know, what we always say, and people listen to this

1:12.3

may or may not know, there's whatever, there's like 80 or 90 million gun owners in America.

1:18.3

And the number of people that take a full day or even better yet, two day or three day class

1:25.6

is very, very small. Like 8,000 people a year, maybe?

1:30.7

It's like 0.001% or something.

1:33.6

That's how I want to make my living, teaching classes.

1:36.1

Yeah.

1:36.7

This is great.

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