What constitutes prior formal training?
Any class, from any school, where you were trained in both safety and live-fire instruction. You do not have to have taken the training from LFI or MTG, any school is acceptable. The police academy is formal training, NRA courses are formal training. Safety and live fire work in a class environment from a professional. Shooting lessons at the public range from your next door neighbor don’t count…unless your next door neighbor happens to be Bob Houzenga or Massad Ayoob or Clint Smith…you get the idea. A professional. Your classification in IDPA or USPSA is not enough. That tells us how well you shoot but not how safe you are. Advanced classes get pretty exciting at times and we need to know that safety has been taught by a professional and has been ingrained to a large degree through experience on a firing line with others. The student needs to exercise some judgment here as well. Just because you have prior formal training does not mean that an advanced class is the right choice. Y
