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Certified Firearms Instructor Certification
Firearms Safety
The 6 CA DOJ Firearms Safety Rules:
1. Treat all guns as if they are loaded:
2. Keep the gun pointed in the safest direction possible:
3. Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot:
4. Know your target, its surroundings, and beyond:
5. Learn how to Properly Operate your gun:
6. Store your gun safely and securely to prevent unauthorized use. Guns and ammunition should be stored separately.:
Additional Safety Points:
Firearms and Children
Firearm Owner Responsability
Liability Issues for Firearms Instructors
Summary of Safe Storage Laws Regarding Children:
You Cannot Be Too Careful with Children and Guns:
Talking to Children about Guns:
Instill a Mind Set of Safety and Responsibility:
Rules for Kids:
Firearm Operation and Safe Handling
Safe gun handling demonstration:
Revolver parts and operation
Semiautomatic pistol parts and operation:
Long gun safe handling:
Ammunition
Ammunition components:
Physics of gunfire:
Firearm and ammunition calibers:
Dangerous range:
Malfunctions
Firearm Ownership
Understand the safety aspects of your firearm
Carefully read all instructional materials:
Enroll in a firearm training course:
Cleaning and Repair:
Safety and Storage Devices:
Methods of childproofing:
Prohibited Firearms Transfers and Straw Purchases
What is a straw purchase:
Things to remember about prohibited firearms transfers and straw purchases:
FIREARMS LAWS
Introduction to the laws:
Sales and Transfers of firearms:
Proof-of-Residency Requirement:
Firearm Safety Certificate (FSC) Requirement:
Safe Handling Demonstration Requirement:
Firearms Safety Device Requirement:
Roster of Handguns Certified for Sale in California:
One-Handgun-per-Thirty-Days Requirement:
Firearm Sales and Transfer Requirements:
New California resident requirements:
Carrying a concealed weapon:
Firearms aboard comman carriers:
Firearms in the homes, business, or at the campsite:
The use of Lethal Force in Self Defense:
Permissible Use of Lethal Force in Defense of Life and Body:
Limitations on the Use of Force in Self-Defense:
Loaded firearms in public:
Large capacity-magazines:
Firearm storage during prohibition:
MISCELLANEOUS PROHIBITED ACTS
Obliteration or Alteration of Firearm Identification:
Openly Carrying an Unloaded Handgun:
Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm on School Grounds:
Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm in a Courtroom, the State Capitol, etc:
Drawing or Exhibiting a Firearm:
Threatening Acts with a Firearm on a Public Street or Highway:
Discharge of a Firearm in a Grossly Negligent Manner:
Discharge of a Firearm at an Inhabited/Occupied Dwelling, Building, Vehicle, Aircraft:
Discharge of a Firearm at an Unoccupied Aircraft, Motor Vehicle, or Uninhabited Building or Dwelling:
Discharge of a Firearm from a Motor Vehicle:
Criminal Storage:
Sales, Transfers and Loans of Firearms to Minors:
Possession of a Handgun or Live Ammunition by Minors:
Persons in Eligible to Possess Firearms:
SAFE HANDLING DEMONSTRATION GLOSSARY:
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APPLY FOR CERTIFICATE OF ELIGIBILITY (COE)
Download COE Forms Here:
BECOMING A DOJ CERTIFIED INSTRUCTOR
Requirements
Certified Firearms Instructor Application
Enroll in a firearm training course:
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