Where do you go to gunsmithing school?

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I saw on TV years ago on those late night adds that you can get your gunsmithing diploma by mail? Is there an actual school or does a guy just work I a gun shop as an apprentice?
 
It is very cost prohibitive to attend the US schools today... and a 2 year course is pretty much a minimum to get started...

You can simply print out a fake gunsmithing diploma if a diploma is what you want.
 
Last I heard, the Colorado School of Trades gunsmithing course was booked solid for the next 3 - 4 years, and they couldn't take any non-U.S. residents for the foreseeable future. Apparently, there's too much of a demand in the US.
 
The biggest problem with a non resident of the US trying to enroll in a gunsmithing course in the US are the laws passed shortly after 911 preventing a non resident access to firearms, ammunition, etc. The normal import/export paperwork available doesn't cover it... possibly the gunsmithing schools are trying to get laws changed to accommodate foreign students but I don't know if that has happened. The alternative is to become a legal resident... costly education to say the least.
 
There was a college in Quebec that was doing a gunsmithing course. Dunno if it's French only, or if they work in English too. I would think that they wold be similarly having fewer positions than applicants. But maybe not.

As for the home-study diploma, I'd suggest that you would be money ahead downloading a template and printing your own.

Take some small business related courses on bookkeeping and the like. I have met a fair few gunsmiths over the years that were pretty decent mechanics, but lousy at running a business.

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Trev
 
trevj said:
There was a college in Quebec that was doing a gunsmithing course. Dunno if it's French only, or if they work in English too. I would think that they wold be similarly having fewer positions than applicants. But maybe not.

As for the home-study diploma, I'd suggest that you would be money ahead downloading a template and printing your own.

Take some small business related courses on bookkeeping and the like. I have met a fair few gunsmiths over the years that were pretty decent mechanics, but lousy at running a business.

Cheers
Trev
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That is very good advice for anyone thinking of running their own small business no matter what it is. I have known several people who failed at running a small business. Not because they weren't good at what the actual business was, but because they had no idea of the ins and outs of properly running it.
 
Those gunsmithing diploma by mail are gigantic waste of time and money. Not recognised by anybody and are expensive. Ditto for the video based courses.
The college in Quebec is indeed French speaking ONLY.
Some small business related courses tends to be forgotten when this comes up every week or two.
Stateside, it's a 2 year Community College course in some States. All regular immigration rules apply. You cannot work while there for school so you need enough money to live on. And once you're finished, there are no entry level jobs, here or Stateside.
 
Start here http://www.forces.ca/en/job/weaponstechnicianland-38 (RCEME) .. was a time when those folks could fix ANYTHING - ANYWHERE.

Then become a very good (or at least engaged and interested) marksman. Numerous folks (Canadians) with advanced shooting skills in the right organizations have found themselves visiting with various technically informed personnel (eg the US AMU) and benefit from the opportunities to discover "what they don't know that they don't know" about gunsmithing.

While you are doing this become a competent machinist and of course serve a proper apprenticeship with a gunsmith .. keep your mouth closed and your ears and eyes open - read lots, make mistakes (but not on your customers guns!)
 
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guntech said:
Possibly anything military, not so much commercial or actual gunsmithing in the civilian world.
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You are right of course -- but when I was a lot younger I recall seeing some of the miracles that a RCEME workshop could perform -- from manufacturing parts to fix a fishing reel or a ford civvy transmission, repairing binoculars, rebuilding DEW Line microwave towers, rebuilding a civilian Cat diesel (in place and -40deg) in Resolute to building up some very fine varmint rifles etc etc etc


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