still waiting to see what part of this thread is slightly on topic


"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote in message
. 3.70...
I audited an NRA handgun safety course Saturday that my wife was
attending for her concealed permit.

I was appalled. The instructor was a really nice fellow, and obviously
an experienced shooter, but his course was inadequate to the nth degree.

The sum-total of ALL safety instruction in the course consisted of his
reading a poster twice. The poster had three safety rules -- "always
point the weapon in a safe direction", "keep your finger off the trigger
until ready to fire", and "don't load the weapon until ready to fire".

All in all, those ARE the bases for safe handling, but this was a class
of 50-ish women and soft-handed men who'd never picked up a gun before.
They couldn't extrapolate from that scant reading anything about safe
transfer of weapons from one to another, safe cleaning practices, routine
muscle-memory checking of every weapon you touch, safe transport, etc.,
etc.

Then he left me puzzled when he told the class that a revolver is NOT a
pistol; only slide-action automatics are pistols. (so, what do you call a
muzzle-loading lock-fired handgun? And, does that mean that a cylinder-
fed rifle isn't a rifle?)

He spent exactly twenty seconds describing a sight picture. And his
drawing was wrong for short range pistol.

The rest of the four hour classroom session consisted of recollections,
instructions to immediately shoot to kill any home invader, and rants
about the local liberal newspaper, then finally a full half hour devoted
to how to answer the questions on the application.

Can it really BE that gun classes have devolved to this level? If so,
what hope have we that the liberalocrats won't finally strip all the
metal from our hands?

LLoyd