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I am not an instructor, so I could very well be wrong, but I think the lever action pistol should be allowed if the person can qualify with it. Part of my reasoning is that I don't recall the law specifying revolver or semi-auto. IIRC, it specified semi-auto or non-semi-auto. This is a slight but possibly important difference in the rules. We all thought of the NSA class as revolver, but I think the law used the other term.

Consider where you would classify a pistol like the Thompson Contender. This is a single shot bolt action handgun firing rifle calibers. Whether you would allow it or not, which class of license would have been required to carry it?

The second reason I think it should have been allowed is that there is nothing I can find in the law now on classification of the pistol. There is no reason under current law to disallow any pistol that does not have optic enhancers.