The class one classes? are they like a one day thing, couple evenings, or two weeks regime?
the one I took was on a Saturday am and consisted of a few hours of classroom stuff on safety, laws, when to use it, when not to, handgun safety, and short clips,with discussions about what you would do in that situation, etc; then a short multiple choice test, and then a shooting test on the range. Seems to me some of it was offhand shooting, some kneeling, and you had to reload between firing strings, and had to know how to safely use and secure your gun. They scored the shooting, and I think everyone passed OK. It was kind of fun, and the classroom stuff was surprisingly educational. Most, if not all of us learned something we weren’t aware of before. Even after we left people were still discussing situation awareness and law things out by their cars.
Id recommend it highly. Oh yes. It started at around 0900 and ended mid afternoon. Also included electronic fingerprinting, mug shots, and all the paperwork. All you had to do at the end of it was stamp the included envelope and send it in. The card arrived a week or so later. The course was really well organized.
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I see neither qualifies us to carry in the state of Kazakifornia. :::
California is patchy. Some counties allow CC and others are absolutely not, like the Bay Area. I have relatives in San Diego, and up to now it has been almost impossible to get a CC permit in that County, despite there being shooting ranges seemingly all over and lots of shooters, because the Sheriff’s office automatically said NO for every applicant, yet the county to the north was pretty free with their CC permits. Now they have relaxed it and are swamped with CC applications, and are reportedly granting them pretty freely. Seems it’s county by County or something rather than statewide, but their laws are pretty strange compared to ours. I don’t know anything about reciprocity, though.