NRA Course times

I have read the email by Mr Williams. They are going to require a 16 hour course. No NRA Pistol or Personal Protection Course is 16 hours long. Except the NRA-USAS Pistol Coach School. They are setting themselves up to dictate everything about this Law and make it beneficial to those people THEY choose to teach the classes.

Doug

I am just as disgusted with the folks at DPS as everyone else. I have an 8hr training course scheduled for this sunday. Guess I can use it to get a Florida permit, otherwise I wasted some hard earned money.

I imagine if and when the DPS decides who to select for training, it will probably be a number of anointed, too few to serve the purpose, especially considering retraining at every renewal. Similar to what happens at drivers license inspection stations. The state mandates a license or permit, without providing proper provisions for licensure or renewal, resulting in waiting lines and forcing the applicant to lose most of a days work fooling with them.

I will do without their graces, and be extral careful my gun doesn't show at Church.

DieselDoc wrote: I imagine if and when the DPS decides who to select for training, it will probably be a number of anointed, too few to serve the purpose, especially considering retraining at every renewal. Similar to what happens at drivers license inspection stations. The state mandates a license or permit, without providing proper provisions for licensure or renewal, resulting in waiting lines and forcing the applicant to lose most of a days work fooling with them.

I will do without their graces, and be extral careful my gun doesn't show at Church.

I will just stick with the "unenhanced" or normal CCW so I don't need the classes. 16 hours is ridiculous, they don't know what they are talking about. And I will just be extra careful my gun doesn't show in church also.
I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6.

I think DPS knows exactly what they are doing. They don't like this new permit and have decided to make it as hard as possible to receive this permit. How dare the Mississippi legislature pass a gun permit law without consulting the DPS? They (DPS) are going to show us who is boss.........

CAJNFRND wrote:I think DPS knows exactly what they are doing. They don't like this new permit and have decided to make it as hard as possible to receive this permit. How dare the Mississippi legislature pass a gun permit law without consulting the DPS? They (DPS) are going to show us who is boss.........

I think there may be more to it than them not liking the new permit. The following items make this suspect to me:

1. No class taken before 7/1/11 will qualify

2. Approval of classes are made by them

3. Approval of Instructors by them as well

4. You must take the class again when you renew your permit

5. 16 hours of training

It looks like someone is setting up rules to benefit someone monetarily. In Louisiana many police officers teach classes and the cost is $150-200. Our club's class is $50. You figure it out.

Doug

16 hours --

This is what happens when you let bueraucraps permit the rest of us to have rights. They don't want us to exercise those rights because it means less power for the bueraucraps and more power for the people.

Tuco wrote:This is what happens when you let bueraucraps permit the rest of us to have rights. They don't want us to exercise those rights because it means less power for the bueraucraps and more power for the people.

That was actually part of the argument in the Federalist Papers against the Bill of Rights: the argument was (and I think has since been proven valid) that if we list certain "rights", then government will attempt to define and ultimately limit those rights. And that is exactly what has happened !

I think we should pressure our legislators to change 97-37-1. I know many folks aren't open carry fans, but i think this route is better than fighting DPS over these training requirements. As far as I can tell, open carry is legal at most places listed off limits for the concealed pistol license. OC is better than nothing and won't require training or dps approval.

If DPS cannot read and comprehend HB 506, or just chooses not to follow the law, then I wish the Legislature would correct that problem in January by making Constitutional Carry legal.

Has anyone thought that this new "Enhanced" CCW license will soon become the only license available. I am wondering if this is the first step in requiring training for ANY CCW permit?

I think the 16 hr requirement is pure

while ponying up for one 16 hour class is one thing...its another to have to do it for each renewal....Just too much time and expense

exactly what they wanted to occur....Think I'm gonna take a wait and see approach...my bet is the law gets modified next year...as the Legislature first intended

This is an old post. This situation was resolved to a better end. NRA Courses allowed. 8 hour minimum. We are grateful to the DPS, they have co-operated with us in most of the issues with the training.

Doug Bowser

Well I was a wondering...Knew Cargil has split his into 2 half days and was wondering how He was gonna swing that....

Have not been on the forum much lately nor following the implementation stupidity of this law

Thx for the clarification...8 hrs feels better...sorta...I still don't like having to pony up on every renewal.

I don't have to take a drivers test on every DL renewal

Driving cars more dangerous than carrying guns

When were NRA 8hr courses accepted? Do you think the local offices know this?