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Sig Sauer Academy offers "Handgun 101" in their facility in Epping, NH. It assumes you know nothing, and includes a firearm, ammo, and all equipment to use for the course. Qualifies for the Mass LTC. The cost is $225 - it takes one day, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM. Sig has lots of other great stuff, too.
https://www.sigsaueracademy.com/
There's a number of other courses listed as meeting the BFS requirements.
Anyone have information on getting authorized to teach courses besides the NRA ones?
Think noxin wants to take a course to be certified instructor, not take one for LTC.
If you develop your own curriculum, and submit it to the state, you can get issued your own course number, and I assume would be automatically qualified.
Think noxin wants to take a course to be certified instructor, not take one for LTC.
Sorry - I didn't read closely enough. Sig also offers instructor development courses, but I'll leave it to the OP to check it out.
I would venture a guess that the answer is no, unless it's a sig scheduled class and they handle all the moniesI wonder if graduating Sig's instructor development course gives one a license to teach their proprietary courses?
I would venture a guess that the answer is no, unless it's a sig scheduled class and they handle all the monies
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I would venture a guess that the answer is no, unless it's a sig scheduled class and they handle all the monies
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For what it's worth:
Back near the beginning of the year, a "new" MA state Sargent took over the BFS licensing and review of proposed courses. I believe his name is Sargent Zanie (I may have the spelling wrong). After several discussions with him, it sounds like one of the overall goals is that all classes will eventually require a live-fire portion. He also told me he has a STACK of proposed syllabuses to review and approve/reject. He does have a goal to get through them all. He did let me know that I can certainly submit my own syllabus, but it will be a while before he will get to it.
We are currently using the NRAs Home Firearm Safety course as our base, but have added a lot of our own, and MA-required information, to it.
For what it's worth:
Back near the beginning of the year, a "new" MA state Sargent took over the BFS licensing and review of proposed courses. I believe his name is Sargent Zanie (I may have the spelling wrong). After several discussions with him, it sounds like one of the overall goals is that all classes will eventually require a live-fire portion. He also told me he has a STACK of proposed syllabuses to review and approve/reject. He does have a goal to get through them all. He did let me know that I can certainly submit my own syllabus, but it will be a while before he will get to it.
We are currently using the NRAs Home Firearm Safety course as our base, but have added a lot of our own, and MA-required information, to it.
If you develop your own curriculum, and submit it to the state, you can get issued your own course number, and I assume would be automatically qualified.
As i understand it, currently once you're approved to teach a qualifying course, you can teach any of the courses.The individual teaching the course would still need to be certified as a BFS instructor to issue the MSP certificate. Obtaining course approval is separate from certification as a BFS instructor- though, IIRC, certification to teach an approved course is an avenue toward BFS certification.
I'm surprised nobody here has written their own course, got it approved, and just made it public domain.
I'm surprised nobody here has written their own course, got it approved, and just made it public domain.
A while back, someone was working on it, as an (IIRC) "Open Source" project. Since we've not heard more, I guess it's a non-starter.
I think the fact that MSP hasn't bothered to review any (of a reportedly large pile) of hopeful courses.
The question that I have is why. Why aren't they reviewing the courses?
The question that I have is why. Why aren't they reviewing the courses?
I'm currently an NRA Certified HFS and BP instructor, but with all the games NRA is playing with the curriculum (blended learning, exorbitant online course fees, threatening instructors for teaching "the old course") , I was looking for another option.
Sounds like it's going to be difficult, timely, and costly to get access to something.
Thanks for the responses and I'll keep an eye out for any other opportunities.
Two possible reasons I can think of:
1. Too much like work.
2. There seems to be a movement to re-write the CMR to mandate live fire only which would throw our some courses, require a state run certification class to certify instructor, etc. So reviewing new courses and certifying them mighg be a waste of time.
I think it is a combination of 1 & 2.