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NRA Certification

mballaimballai Member Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited May 2002 in Ask the Experts
I'd like to get some opinions on the value of NRA Certification. I already know how to shoot fairly well and am pretty safety conscious. Do you think this might add to my shooting skills?

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  • raskilraskil Member Posts: 250 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If you were planning on being a firearms instructor, the certification may help (in words only). If you want to become more proficient at shooting, look for a class in your area taught by a certified Law Enforcement Instructor. A few years back, I took an Instructor course from the NRA and was very disappointed in the quality. Halfway through the first night, I had to point out that the instructor had a live round included in his loading and unloading demo. This was the biggest group of hillbillies that crawled out of the woods, and this course was in a major metropolitan area. If you know the 10 commandments of shooting and the basic positions you know all the NRA teaches in the basic rifle class. I had to contact the NRA to enquire about renewal and never received the packet. Maybe the NRA should stick to buying votes to protect our Constitution.
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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yes a lesson taught is a lesson learned in my oponion. The biggest advatage in becoming an Certified NRA instructor is what you can do for other people less oriented about firearms. And you may recruit people that dont own firearms because of their fear or lack of knowledge. Over all it is very self rewarding as well as teaching someone else. WE need all the gun owners we can get.

    Good Luck.

    Rugster
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm NRA certified in five catagories....it helped when I went for an interview with the local Sheriff for a concealed carry permit. Just having the certification and knowledge to train my family members and others safe fireaarm handling is worth it.
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  • firing pinfiring pin Member Posts: 144 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's just another way of certiforcation.
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  • mballaimballai Member Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was thinking that certification would certainly help in the event I ever had to drop the hammer on some perp. My thought is that if I was a "trained" gun owner versus just some "gun nut", a local DA or ambulance chaser would have a much higher hurdle to clear to push some phony case against me. Unless they make some sob story: the criminal scumbag didn't have a chance against the well-trained and armed citizen. Oh boohoo...(I can hear the tears falling now )

    I do like the idea of being able to present a compelling case for gun ownership via certification. That alone seems to make it worthwhile.

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    Edited by - mballai on 05/20/2002 19:14:57
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