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About

Who trains you matters.

Firearms instruction is one of the few things you buy where the quality of the teaching and the quality of the paperwork both have consequences. Silverline is built around taking both seriously.
The company

What we set out to do

Company story — how Silverline started, and why

Training, certification and investigations sit together here for a practical reason: all three end in a document that somebody else relies on. A qualification record, a permit application, a case report. Work that is only as good as the record it leaves behind is the common thread.

Instruction

Your instructor

Silverline firearms instructor on the line at Exeter Gunslingers, duty belt and magazines rigged, American flag flying behind the berm.
On the line at Exeter Gunslingers.

Alex Duran

Lead Firearms Instructor

Alex Duran is a security professional with over 13 years of law enforcement experience and currently works as an Executive Protection Agent in Silicon Valley, providing security for high-profile private clients.

He is a California BSIS Certified Firearms Instructor and licensed Private Investigator. His advanced training and certifications include FLETC Active Shooter Response, NRA Law Enforcement Handgun Instructor, and NRA Law Enforcement Pistol-Mounted Optics Instructor.

Alex is also an avid shooter who participates in local USPSA and IDPA competitive shooting, using competition as another way to continually sharpen his firearms proficiency, discipline, and performance under pressure.

Licences and certifications

  • California BSIS Certified Firearms Instructor
  • Licensed Private Investigator
  • FLETC Active Shooter Response
  • NRA Law Enforcement Handgun Instructor
  • NRA Law Enforcement Pistol-Mounted Optics Instructor

Alex brings his law enforcement, executive protection, competitive shooting, and firearms training experience into every course, with an emphasis on preparing armed security professionals for the responsibilities of carrying a firearm on duty.

BSIS firearms instructor
BSIS firearms instructor number
Law enforcement experience
13+ years
How we work

What to expect

  • Small enough classes that you get corrected, not just watched
  • Range time with an instructor who will tell you what you are doing wrong
  • Qualification records completed and filed as BSIS requires
  • Straight answers about what a permit does and does not let you do
  • No pressure to buy training you do not need
Silverline instructor at the range table with a binder open in one hand, explaining with the other, an open pistol case on the table and the flag behind him.
Instruction at the range table.
In development

What we are building next

Alex Duran & Devin Stout

Alex Duran and Devin Stout are developing a more advanced security course that goes beyond the BSIS minimum standard and into the work an armed officer actually does.

It incorporates duty handgun work, movement, reloads, engaging multiple targets, and USPSA and defensive shooting concepts applied to a security context — the same competitive and defensive disciplines both instructors train in themselves.

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