After 43 years in VA and a divorce I moved back to the Eastern Shore where my family is to retire and spend the remainder of my life. I've been a firearms instructor for almost 50 years so I decided that I'd go ahead and get approved by MSP to teach the new Maryland course. First, MSP never notified me that I had been approved. I found out quite by accident, on Christmas eve when I was looking around the MSP website and saw my name on the approved list. Then I waited for them to tell me how this all worked and what I had to do after I taught students -- nada, zilch, zip, nothing. Yesterday I receive an email from MSP stating that some instructors have not been living up to THEIR end of the bargain! HAH!
Now to the really good part. The closest range is almost 80 miles, round-trip, from where I live! So even if I get everything else straightened out, which I can do, does it make sense to teach one or two students and go to a range that far away? No. As has been stated by many the entire purpose of the law is to make it as difficult as possible for people to purchase handguns and, in that, they have certainly succeeded.
Now to the really good part. The closest range is almost 80 miles, round-trip, from where I live! So even if I get everything else straightened out, which I can do, does it make sense to teach one or two students and go to a range that far away? No. As has been stated by many the entire purpose of the law is to make it as difficult as possible for people to purchase handguns and, in that, they have certainly succeeded.
