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Advanced Gunsmithing
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MGS makes it easy for you to learn from home, along with 7 hands-on projects you’ll receive both printed and online access to your coursework to improve gunsmith techniques. Our Advanced Gunsmithing program consists of 65 lessons (765 clock hours). Our learning model is self-paced, open enrollment, allowing you up to 3 years to complete your program.
Program Outcomes
- Explain the essential gun safety rules and effective gunsmith handling of firearms
- Identify the basic components of a gunsmith’s workshop
- Understand the provenance and special features of significant firearms throughout history.
- Demonstrate an understanding of gun laws and licensing conditions
- Learn the fundamentals of starting a business, from bookkeeping to opening a storefront.
- Identify guns based on parts, and make customized modifications efficiently and effectively
- Describe how to correctly price your services in firearms repair, maintenance, and restoration.
- Learn gunsmithing fundamentals including how to install, remove, reconstruct, and modify gun barrels based on make and model
- Explain why common firearms malfunctions occur and how to repair them
- Learn how to assemble and disassemble over 70 different principal firearms
- Understand how to build a custom work bench
- Differentiate between useful and unnecessary tools and materials
- Learn bluing, jeweling, and checkering concepts
- Understand how to fit and shape inletted stock
- Describe how to correctly maintain shotgun bores and barrels
- Learn how to customize firearms through Parkerizing, accessorizing, and custom finishing and plating techniques
Program Overview
MGS’s Advanced Gunsmithing program is designed for those interested in a career in the firearms industry or in opening their own gunsmith business. It is comprised of 65 lessons, and 7 hands-on projects, offering a comprehensive education on the firearm’s industry. It covers everything from the basics of gun repair to the business of professional gunsmithing.
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PLUS! Receive both Federal Firearms License & Class 3 (SOT) FFL License Guides
Graduation Materials
After you complete your program, you’ll receive graduation materials including a gunsmithing tool kit. All graduation materials/offers will be shipped separately upon completion of the necessary educational requirements.
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Refund Policy
At MGS Trade School, our Student Service team focuses on student satisfaction. However, if you choose not to continue your studies, we offer a refund policy. Cancellations within the first 10 days of enrollment receive a full refund. After the first 10 days, your refund amount is based on tuition collected, lessons completed and enrollment date. Learn more about our refund policy.
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"Taking this course is an investment not only in myself, but in my customers and my community."
“As the owner of a gun shop for the past four years, firearms have been a big part of my everyday life and business. Over that time, I realized that while selling firearms and accessories is important, there is also a huge need for knowledgeable and trustworthy gunsmiths in the community. I wanted to take the next step and expand my skillset so I could properly work on customers’ firearms instead of always having to send work elsewhere.
That’s what led me to enroll in the Advanced Gunsmithing Course at MGS Trade School. I wanted professional, hands-on training that would deepen my understanding of firearm mechanics, diagnostics, and repair so I could confidently service the firearms my customers rely on.
My goal has always been to make my shop more than just a place to buy guns. I want it to be the place people in the area trust when they need work done on their firearms — whether it’s maintenance, troubleshooting, upgrades, or custom work. The training and knowledge gained through this program is helping me build that level of trust and capability.
Taking this course is an investment not only in myself, but in my customers and my community. It allows me to continue growing my business while providing a higher level of service to the people who rely on it.“ Continue Reading >
Training Gunsmiths since 1946
Harry “Skip” Walters III
Master Gunsmith/Instructor
A graduate of the Pennsylvania Gunsmith School, Skip has worked as an Engineer, Technician, Model-maker, and Gunsmith for over 40 years. In addition to his role at MGS Trade School, Skip worked as a gunsmith for Sarco, Inc., one of the world’s largest suppliers of gun parts, kits, and accessories.
With his extensive education and real-world experience, Skip provides MGS students with unique insights into what it takes to be a successful gunsmith. Have a question about your course work or the firearm’s industry? Skip’s expertise and experience in the firearm’s industry is an invaluable resource.
Zeke Stout
Director
Zeke Stout is a certified firearms specialist with IFSA (International Firearms Specialist Academy). He has served as an executive at a large conglomerate of businesses in Nashville, TN where he honed many aspects of marketing to different demographics. He then started one of the most popular podcasts in the firearms industry, expanding his pre-existing gun knowledge. He then went on to help build one of the largest online gunsmithing schools in the nation as an Executive Vice President. In that role, he was certified as a Higher Education Professional in leadership through the DEAC and became an armorer in several platforms, including the 1911 and Penn arms grenade launcher. He was also the host and gunsmithing subject matter expert for the Discovery channel show Master Of Arms.
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