Alright now, this is getting out of hand.
I've read COUNTLESS posts on here how people should train their friends on firearms safety and mandatory instruction shouldn't be imposed by the gov't.
So. The main firearms training institution is the NRA, and that was the first thing I turned to for source materials. Ah but now I've been told twice it's not a good idea to use NRA safety techniques when trying to help a friend out. Just great.
What now, contact Blackhawk training center? How about the military? Maybe the local sheriff can help a brother out.
PS thanks lgsracer, I'll look into that. Her baby is due in March and wants to wait until then anyway.
Nope, Chris, nothing is "getting out of hand." You're just not getting gratification. There's a difference between the two. The Earth continues to spin, there still is peace in the land, and chaos is not yet upon us.
I don't think that Blackhawk would sell you its instructional materials either, Chris, but it might be worth a try. You probably
could get the military training manuals, possibly even by downloading them online, but my recollection is that they're not useful out of
their context. Your idea of contacting the local sheriff's office might be worth a try too. There's also nothing wrong with Cooper's four rules: every training course I've ever taken assumes them. They're different from the NRA rules, though.
Or, of course, you can continue trying to find materials that will guide you to teach her what you don't know well enough to teach her. But in that case why not just give her the materials and let her read them instead of trying to interpret them for her.
It's indeed a good thing for friends to help train their friends on firearms safety. It's not such a good thing, though, if the person doing the training doesn't know enough about firearms safety to teach it.
It's a very bad thing if that person gives the impression--and even believes himself--that he's training someone else according to specific standards but doesn't really know the standards he's teaching, only his own version of what they might be in his imagination.
I've reread my previous response to you but don't see that I said anything like "it's not a good idea to use NRA safety techniques." What I was saying, clearly I think, is that it's not a good idea for
you to try to teach the "NRA safety techniques" because
you obviously don't know them well enough to teach them. If you did know them you wouldn't have needed to ask your original question. The "NRA safety techniques" work all right and are worth learning from instructors who understand them and how to teach them in the NRA context for teaching them. Cooper's four rules work well too and are worth learning from someone who understands them.
Many people have had teachers who needed to read ahead in the textbook because they just didn't know the subject they were teaching. It's not a good experience.
Black Night's suggestion is right on target. It's the kind and honest thing to do, and at the end your friend's wife will have had the training she thinks she is getting instead of your version of it.
But you obviously are determined to do what you want. I hope things turn out well.
