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Just a bit of a update for some of you, a few months ago I posted about getting my Utah non resident concealed weapons permit and after nearly two months of waiting it finally came! I took the class at whole sale sports in Silverdale, it was a taught by a Washington state native who was born and raised in Elma. He now lives in Utah and fly's to Washington once a month with his wife to teach the class. His class is slightly different than the states class. The instructor developed his own program witch he got approved by the state of Utah. The class was four hours long not including fingerprinting, photos and paper work. While I did not agree with everything that he taught I did agree with the majority of it. This would be a great class for anyone new to firearms to take. The class went through ALL of the basics. The basics of handguns, what a revolver is, what a automatic is, what they looks like, how to load them, how they differs from each other. He tough the differences between kill shots and wound shots and why we only shoot to kill, never wound. Shooting stances, breathing techniques, how to clear jams you name it he went over it. One of the things I did not agree with that came out of the instructors mouth is he told the entire class not to buy Sepra holsters as the cause miss fires due to improper finger placement when the shooter draws his weapon. He told the class Serpa holsters are designed to place the shooters finger on the trigger when they draw their gun. The class did have what I interpreted as a anti open carry feel even though he never mentioned it directly. At one point I raised my hand and asked the instructor what he thought about OC. He told me he respects people who open carry but he said he never does because it "gives away my element of surprise"
The second half of the class was all laws he is required to teach Utah state law even though it has no meaning to us here, you have to sit though it if you want to get your card. The laws may not have been relevant but I did like the way he talked about the possible consequences for having to shoot someone. He went over all the possible out comes if we ever have to defend our self's. Some of them possessive some of them not. He did not go out of his way to scare the class but made it clear even if we do everything right we could still wind up in jail if only for a short time.
There may have been a few things I did not agree with but overall thought it was a good class and good review for everyone. The class was 140 dollars (65 for the class and 75 in fees) and is honored in 30 states including Washington and is good for 5 years. You will need to have your WA state CPL before you can get your Utah permit, but this can be done after you take the class if need be. The other good thing to know is even though your Utah permit is good in 30 states Utah law does not fallow your Utah permit, you must follow every states individual laws. While it was a little annoying to have to sit though a class to get a CPL and I feel a violation of the second amendment it does give me a lot of freedom
The second half of the class was all laws he is required to teach Utah state law even though it has no meaning to us here, you have to sit though it if you want to get your card. The laws may not have been relevant but I did like the way he talked about the possible consequences for having to shoot someone. He went over all the possible out comes if we ever have to defend our self's. Some of them possessive some of them not. He did not go out of his way to scare the class but made it clear even if we do everything right we could still wind up in jail if only for a short time.
There may have been a few things I did not agree with but overall thought it was a good class and good review for everyone. The class was 140 dollars (65 for the class and 75 in fees) and is honored in 30 states including Washington and is good for 5 years. You will need to have your WA state CPL before you can get your Utah permit, but this can be done after you take the class if need be. The other good thing to know is even though your Utah permit is good in 30 states Utah law does not fallow your Utah permit, you must follow every states individual laws. While it was a little annoying to have to sit though a class to get a CPL and I feel a violation of the second amendment it does give me a lot of freedom