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by The Annoyed Man
Mon Aug 15, 2011 11:33 pm
Forum: Concealed Carry on College Campuses
Topic: video NRA Grassroots Director Addresses Students for Conceal
Replies: 5
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Re: video NRA Grassroots Director Addresses Students for Con

MasterOfNone wrote:
Charles L. Cotton wrote:
MasterOfNone wrote:At a recent NRA instructor class, we were informed that NRA prohibits anyone bringing live ammo into an NRA class, even inside of a concealed handgun. Is that what others have been told? If so, then I think they should apply everything said in the video to their own classes:

"Crime isn't limited by school boundaries, and neither should our right to protect ourselves be"
"Whenever we can expand the universe of places they can arm themsleves for self-defense, all Americans are safer."
The NRA does have a "no live ammo" rule for the classroom portion of its classes. There are no NRA "concealed handgun classes." Remember, the NRA classes are "basic" classes for people who have little or no shooting experience in the particular shooting discipline. The exceptions are the two Basic Personal Protection classes, but even those are considered "basic" classes.

If the decision were mine, I would not prohibit live ammo in the class, but there is a big difference between carrying in a college classroom where a CHL won't be taking his/her gun out and carrying in the classroom portion of a handgun class where guns will definitely be handled by students.

Chas.
Thanks for your view on this. I didn't mean to imply that NRA has concealed handgun classes; I meant to say what I corrected above in red - that we could not even carry a loaded concealed handgun into the class. It just seems that they are saying CHL holders are responsible, law-abiding citizens, but they pose a danger to our classes. I think this would be an easy position for the antis to use against us.
Hmmmm.... I carried my concealed gun, a Kahr PM9, for all three days of my Basic Pistol Instructor class. We were told not to have live ammo in the classroom, but that was in relation to teaching students, both about the makeup of a cartridge, and about the mechanical function of the handgun. The idea was to prevent the possibility of a live cartridge being inserted into a gun being used for teaching. But a concealed handgun is concealed. There is no passing around of the gun or its ammunition; so it doesn't really apply.

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