state university offering CCW class

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Pellissippi State is offeing a Tennessee State Handgun Carry Permit course on Sept 9! It's a Ladies Only course and it's through the non-credit program, but a state university is offering a handgun carry course! :D

Gotta love it!


In support of it I've posted the ad sheet for the course at the deli in the building our offices are in. I've added the offer to help anyone signing up for it get ready with basic handgun safety and basic handgun shooting so they can pass the course. I hope every Sunday afternoon between now and then is busy showing new shooters interested in the carry class how to safely handle a gun and shoot well enough to pass the practical shooting skills test.
 
That's awesome. Where is Pellissippi? We have tons of family and a good chunk of land in central Tenn and we were thinking of retiring there.
 
Wouldn't it be great to walk into a classroom and, to show your appreciation to Teach, you could leave a box of hollowpoints on her desk?

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HAHA No Lie!! I can't remember where I saw this but I list about 10 minutes from the hardin valley PSTCC campus. I think Coal Creek Armory might have had a notice up though they do teach their own class. Either way it rules. I wonder what campus policy is there in regards to a handgun...I should check into that. I wonder how they're going to have people qualify. I wonder if they ahve a range there.
 
Ladies only? That seems to be not quite fair... and perhaps in violation of Title IX, if I understand it, AND if this is an official (even though not-for-credit) university program.

Edit to suggest to myself that I shut up, since it will lead to more shooters. But still... I hope if there's demand, they let guys take it too. It STILL doesn't seem fair somehow.
 
There are some colleges in MO that offer them also. Flo. Valley Community College in St.Louis Metro. ($50 for the class, $50 for rangetime)

I believe the junior college in Moberly offers it also. (Though I don't know if it's done by someone else, just on their campus. I don't see it in their syllabus.)
 
It olny violates title IX if they don't offer the men an alternate sport to participate in. For example most universities have both men's and women's basketball, but football and gymnastics are men's and women's only, respectively. Outside of Title IX I do agree that the course should be offered to all students regardless of gender, but at the same time I'm glad they've at least offering the course to the women of the college - it's a start!
 
The campus is between Knoxville and Oak Ridge on Pellissippi Parkway.

They offer the course for anyone that wants to take it during the year, but in this case they're offering a Ladies Only class to make the environment friendlier for women. As far as title IX is concerned, let me remind you that it's being offered as a non-credit class related to a state reg requirement and not as a school funded sport.

Since the shooting portion is going to be over at the range in North Knoxville and the class is going to be in West Knox I don't see why students would need to take a gun into the campus. But it's not a problem, IIRC, TN allows you to bring a firearm onto a campus IFF you are involved in a class or an exhibit at the school.

The range they're using is over at Rifle Range Road.

$45 for the class and $5.50 for the range fee.

I'm making my time available because one of my co-workers expressed an interest in the class and then said she probably wouldn't go because she hadn't handled a gun in a long time and didn't have time to get "back home" to have her dad show her again. I volunteered my time to get her back to speed. I also realized there might be others in the building who might want to take the carry class, but weren't comfortable with their skill (or lack of) and I could at least offer to help get them ready for the class if they wanted to.:D
 
In the 1990s I worked at small college in Utah where the chief of campus police taught the CC class on campus to anyone who wanted in.

They held gun shows in the auditorium at a university in the southern part of the state.

The local gradeschool collected donations for a fund raising auction and the photo in the paper showed a 3rd grader posing with a 22 rifle that had been donated.

I was amazed at how unexcited people in Utah were about having guns around. It was just... normal.

Now, try to buy a beer and they went nuts...
 
Good gosh...that's quite the drive going from the campus to Rifle Range Road. Oh well...I guess the like 2 month wait at coal creek armory affects that.
 
CNY- i apologize and recant my previous statment

i have never heard of anything other than pistol safety or hunter safty in my area(niagara county)
 
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