TN Handgun Carry Permit Schools and Instructors

School Name: Small Arms Training School (S.A.T.S)

Location: Franklin, Tn (Williamson Co. Sheriff's Department)

Primary Instructor: Jim Mauth

HCP Class Cost: $75.00

Website: Unknown

Phone number: 615-794-3333

Your Personal Experience: I highly recommend these folks. This was an eight hour (1 Day) course, split into two groups. While one group was watching the dreaded video, the other group was outside on the range. Somewhere around luch time (IIRC), the 2 groups would swap.

There were roughly 5 or 6 total instructors, and every one of them did their best to make the day as enjoyable as possible. There was no shortage of humor all day long. They made the 8 hour day seem like a breeze.

Again, I highly recommend these folks.

School Name: Coal Creek Armory
Location: 10737 Dutchtown Rd. Knoxville, TN 37932
Primary Instructor: Kent Brown
HCP Class Cost: $85.00
Website: http://coalcreekarmory.com/courses_carry.html
Phone number: (865) 966-4545
Your Personal Experience: Perfectly adequate course for the purpose; fair price for a centrally located facility with in-house range complete with rental guns, convenient to anyone in Knox or surrounding counties. Safety stressed in all aspects of classroom and range instruction; range supervision outstanding. Overall instruction is more than suitable for meeting state requirements without useless verbosity - several other course offerings are available for those wishing to further hone their firearms knowledge and skills. Overall a quite professional, safe, and efficiently competent operation.

... and always LOTS OF GUNS to ogle !

- OS

+1 on safety south. bo puts on a good class.

Originally Posted by canynracer

School Name: RangeUSA
Location: Memphis
Primary Instructor: Chip Holland (but there are several)
HCP Class Cost: 75.00 (120.00 for two)
Website: www.rangusa.com
Phone number: 901-213-4774
Your Personal Experience:

I'd recommend it to anyone. I had a blast during the course. As a bonus, they'll do your fingerprinting there.

School Name: HGR Firearms
Location: Gallitan Tennessee
Primary Instructor: Greg Knox/Len Assante/Danny Dunn
HCP Class Cost: (NRA Basic Pistol) $150.00
Website: www.hgrfirearms.com
Phone number: 615-364-4359
Your Personal Experience:
II'm one of the instructors so I'm biased, but I've seen Greg and Len both out out of their way to make each class a fun learning experience no matter what the skill level of the student is.

School Name: TN Sports Foundation Handgun Carry Permit Class
Location: Gander Mountain Store, Jackson TN
Primary Instructor: David Baker
HCP Class Cost: $65
Website: www.tnsportsfoundation.org
Phone number: 731-234-1200
Your Personal Experience: Excellent, informative class that was also alot of fun!!

I hate to ring my own bell... but... others here were pming me wanting information to post here so I figure I'll just do it myself.



School Name: Goodlettsville Gun Shop
Location: Goodlettsville/Nashville, Tn
Primary Instructor: Phillip Arrington
HCP Class Cost: $75
Website: www.goodlettsvillegunshop.com

Phone number: 615-859-8822
Experience: We teach State of Tennessee handgun Permit classes and NRA Firearms safety classes. We have been Instructing for 20+ years, and teaching Tn's permit class for 14+ years. Our classes are usually held on Saturdays, but we do offer private and weekday classes are available. Call for times and schedules.

Originally Posted by musicman

Critical Incident Strategies
Smyrna, TN
Officers Todd Bryant and Dustin Fait
HCP Class Cost $80
http://www.criticalincidentstrategies.com/index.htm
615-347-0787
I know both Todd and Dustin from their roles as Smyrna police officers and their involvement in the community, as well as working with them in business. They are real, honest guys who don't play "tacticool" and won't try to impress your girlfriend with their machismo. (You know the kind I'm talking about... I can't freaking stand that!) Their knowledge and advice comes from years of training of all kinds that they have attended, and real world experince as officers and SWAT team members. Anyways, I have had friends take their HCP course and all of them gave glowing reviews. They do more than just paper punching and really open up their students' minds to what can actually happen in a self-defense situation. We've all heard the awesome reviews on here about their defensive carbine, pistol, and shotgun classes, too. Once we can get our calendar straight, my wife will be taking her permit course here.

+1
I here those guys are AWESOME!
Although, one of them is quite a bit better looking than the other...

Can anyone suggest another weekend class in Knoxville? The class I am currently looking at is 90$ which seems a bit high (although I know the teaching will be excellent).

Check out Gunny's in Maryville. They have Saturday and occasional evening classes. My wife is taking the evening CCW next week. She has already taken a "Women and guns" class there and liked it alot.