The interim New Jersey Permit To Carry, Use of Force and Safe Handling and Proficiency qualification has been published by the NJ State Police.
The proficiency requirements are fairly tough. How do they compare to those in other states?
Interesting.
I haven't had time to read the entire thing, but there's actually a LOT of good information there, at least in the first few pages. A lot of it appears to be stuff we occasionally talk about here.
I don't think much of their course of fire at the end. There's an aweful lot of emphasis on reholstering an uncocked weapon. There are plenty of firearms that I would NOT want to get into the habit of "uncocking" because they involve dropping a hammer with a round in the chamber. My 1991A1, for example. 1911 style firearms don't have a decocker and you can't drop the hammer with the safety on.
Not to mention there are plenty of striker fired semiautomatics that have no decocking means at all. Nor a manual safety. You can't shoot their course of fire with a Glock, for instance, because you can't follow their instructions to the letter.
It's almost as if they wrote the course of fire for revolvers. And even so, suppose I decided I wanted to shoot my Colt SAA? That's not a double action at all.
And the "physical or simulated barricades are recommended..." and used at the discretion of the instructor? Umm...no. Either require them or do not require them. Don't allow loopholes that one region may deliberately use to make things more difficult than in other regions.
Appendix B clearly states the four things a person is required to demonstrate. However, none of the material is codified. And the course of fire goes beyond those stated requirements.
Also, if this is a "basic familiarization" training course, having a person with little, if any, experience or training do repeated draw/fire/drop hammer/reholster loaded weapon, plus times of 2 to 3 second for some, it a bit...ridiculous.
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