If you teach a course and offer all those rounds to a student, then you're a good instructor. However it's not a requirement and I'm sure there are instructors who don't. I think we already went over all of this in a thread in the general section in January?
The most common live-fire course that is accepted for the MA BFS Cert is the NRA Basic Pistol. This curriculum does not include any instruction on rifles or shotguns. If you add those into your course, then once again you're a good instructor, but most won't or don't for many reasons including cost. Say you have a 19yo student who is taking a LTC course so he doesn't have to take another when he applies for his LTC, but gets his FID in the meantime. Should he not have instruction on the operation of a rifle or shotgun in this case? Also, the Basic Pistol course is 8 hours long. In a perfect world your students remember every little tidbit of information that you give them, but in reality they'll barely remember half of a 4 hour course let alone an 8 hour course.
What about spouses and children of avid gun owners who merely wish to have their family licensed to protect them legally? Should they be forced to spend 8 hours and fire pistols when they might never shoot one again or shoot occasionally under supervision? Wouldn't the HFS course designed specifically for them be enough?
The other thing that gets me is people on here claim to be all for constitutional rights, but fail to realize that the MA BFS requirement is just another infringement. What if a person does not wish to spend 8 hour and an entire Saturday taking a BFS approved course when they can do it in 4 hours on a week night? What if they can not afford a $150 basic pistol course, but the $100 or less HFS is more feasible? In many states you do not need a license, let alone a safety course, merely to possess a firearm in the home. We don't hear about blood running in the streets (or homes) in these states, so why put any more infringements on these citizens then you have to?
I teach courses as my primary source of income. It is too difficult logistically and financially to run multiple Basic Pistols classes a week, but I find I can with the Home Firearms Safety course. I also teach at places that implement the use of a simulator as a training tool and while it does not replace live fire, it can greatly help me in teaching students the fundamentals of shooting. I also offer my students the chance for affordable range instruction if they want, but I don't force it on them.
If you only teach and recommend live-fire courses, that is fine. There really is no basis for bashing non-fire courses, especially in MA.