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Do a search on this site and you'll turn up a number of posts about gunsmith training.
In short, an internet or mail order course will not qualify you to take money for gunsmithing other peoples guns.
It may help if you want to work on your own guns.
With these courses, a qualified gunsmith/instructor never sees your work, so you have no way of knowing if you're really doing it right or if you're just butchering things up.
If you want to take money for gun work, you MUST have a Federal Firearms License, any state or local business licenses or permits, tax numbers, and set up shop in an area that's zoned for it, AND have insurance to prevent a disgruntled customer from suing you out of everything you own.
No one is more vindictive than a friend who's angry with you for not meeting his expectations on quality of work, and the lawyers get drawn like guns.
As a zoning example, recently a local man tried to open a shop in his basement. The neighbors disputed this, and the city council turned him down since his house wasn't zoned for a business.
The hard truth is, if you expect to accept money for gun work, you need to attend a real gunsmithing school and really learn the trade.
Yes, there are people who learn by working as an apprentice, or who are talented enough to be self-taught but they are a tiny minority.
Do not think that taking a machine shop course and learning to operate lathes and milling machines will make you a qualified gunsmith.... it won't.
Most good gunsmiths are good machinist, but most machinists are NOT good gunsmiths and many are terrible at it.
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