NYS Pistol Permit Class / Handgun Safety
CLASS NOTICE : DUE TO NEW YORK STATE CONCEALED CARRY IMPROVEMENT ACT, ALL NEW YORK STATE PISTOL PERMIT CLASSES ARE ON HOLD.
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Class Description:
DUE TO THE AMBIGUITY OF THE NEW YORK STATE CONCEALED CARRY IMPROVEMENT ACT, THE CLASS DESCRIPTION HAS YET TO BE DETERMINED.
Class Philosophy:
In 1997 I began to teach County Approved Handgun Safety classes, also known as “Pistol Permit classes” throughout Western New York. My own experiences as a handgun hunter, student of Threat Management and the defensive handgun heavily influenced my approach to teaching the class.
As a rule, Pistol Permit classes use a very basic and generic approach to safety training. The assumption is that the student will later take more specialized training necessary for deploying handguns in defensive or hunting situations. This is unrealistic thinking because it assumes the student will:
- Take the time to get the necessary extra training at a later date, and
- Be able to successfully “unlearn” potentially dangerous techniques and habits that were introduced via the very basic and generic Handgun Safety class.
From day one I took the safety training standards that I had learned as a student of Lethal Force Institute and combined them with other deployment and safety training skills. Two independent sources reviewed the class and confirmed my beliefs:
- Peer review showed that the new training model was very detailed and got the job done. It was deemed to be neither confusing nor overwhelming to the beginners. Also, it did not insult the intelligence of the more experienced hunters and former military people.
- Student response was fantastic. Beginners could appreciate the reasoning and progression of technique. Even pistol permit holders who were sitting in as observers would comment that the class was superior to classes they had taken from other instructors.