Gallery

Real classes, not stock photography.

Every image on this page was taken at an actual PG-13 CCW Training Academy session in Van Nuys. No models, no borrowed footage. If you are trying to judge a CCW course before you pay for it, the photos of the room and the firing line tell you more than any sales copy will.

A few things worth noticing. Class sizes are small, usually a handful of students rather than a lecture hall, which is why questions actually get answered. The classroom is a real classroom with a whiteboard and a projector, because the legal half of California CCW training is genuinely half the course. And on the range you will see an instructor standing next to the student, not watching from a chair.

• Classroom. Firearm safety principles, California use-of-force law, and the four universal rules.
• Range. Live-fire instruction and the qualification your county requires.
• Instruction. One-on-one coaching on grip, stance, and sight alignment.
• Certification. Students receiving the documentation that goes with their permit application.