They eliminated the need to have any training or classes for cc licenses in my state. I took some anyway because I was interested. In the state next to me you don’t need a cc license at all. It’s a god given right. In this case god is the legislature.
I haven’t seen any movements to eliminate training from the police forces yet.
I suppose it is possible a cc civilian is more knowledgeable and more prepared than the popo. But to me that would be a problem with the popo rather than the glory of the cc civi. I also don’t buy it statistically or logically. I’m sure there is an example or two as an anomaly based on being humans though.
My shooting instructor does train thelocal PD and does say they are terrible shots though. He also likes to point out the holes in the walls, shooting bays, ceilings and target holders that came from the police. He likes to poke fun at them because he was one of them and thinks they are knuckleheads. I don’t trust them as far as I can throw them and had an unfortunate incident with them where they were wrong and it took me forever to show/prove it to them. There was a point where they didn’t want the truth, just to be right and got very aggressive about it. Much like political arguments in here lol.
I’m not saying all popo are good shots that’s for sure. I’m also not saying they practice good gun safety or are good under pressure. But I’d hope there is at least a little weeding out. I’d also hope they are better than the guy next to me at the range yesterday that kept waving the muzzle of his new CZ scorpion accross all of the bays while excitedly showing it to his buddies.
I stopped shooting and told him he pointed it at me twice. He said it wasn’t loaded and not to worry about it. I told him again not to point it at me and he said but it’s not loaded. I told him to treat it like it’s loaded and he just frowned at me. Then he loaded it and shot it. When he finished (I was leaving because I didn’t want to be there and get shot, plus I’d shot 650 rounds already) he laid the scorpion at his feet pointed at the concrete half wall in front of him.
I told the range officer on my way out. He said he’d say something when the dude left. I told him I hope that’s not too late. It’s not my normal range and I won’t go back.
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