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Originally Posted by bmcgowan13
I attended the Concealed Carry Class put on by my local Florida PD in 2012.
It was laughable. They reviewed (I'm sorry-read aloud) the Florida Deadly Force laws (FSS 776.012) to us in a PD briefing room. Then you went into the men's Locker Room and you fired one .22 cal bullet into a sand-filled barrel as a demonstration of your "proficiency with a firearm." The instructor, placed his hands over yours as he handed you the weapon--and removed it so you could pull the trigger and then replaced his hand immediately after you fired it to remove the weapon.
It was FAR from any conceivable training in the use of a deadly weapon--a weapon that has no other purpose but to kill a person. But I cleared the training and picked up my Concealed Carry Permit in downtown Orlando a few weeks later. The State of FLorida considered me "qualified" after firing...one round...into a sand filled bucket.
I had 18 years of LEO before I moved to Orlando....
Please...it was a joke and the punchline enabled me to carry a concealed weapon...
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That sad and the instructor should have been reported. My training was 8 hours of classroom and 2 hours of range time...