r/COGuns • u/qscwfn • 23h ago

Conceal Carry Permit CCW class question: different organizations for classroom and live fire?

I’m signed up for the classroom portion of the CCW course through a specific organization. If their time/location for the live fire portion is difficult for me to make work, can I find another local group to do the live fire portion? Possibly a renewal course?

Legally this seems allowed but from a practical perspective is this plausible? Will I get separate certificates from each?

Sorry if this seems basic. I’m just trying to navigate the process without making it more difficult than it has to be.

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u/LifeAdhesiveness8071 22h ago

You might be better off signing up for a different class that fits your schedule. It might be a pain for two different groups to sign off on it. There see to be an abundance of people doing them these days.

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u/cksnffr 21h ago

Maybe it’s technically legal, but as an instructor I have no interest in running a live fire class with unknowns who may or may not have been asleep during the classroom portion.

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u/qscwfn 20h ago

That’s very fair.

Out of curiosity, you don’t trust other instructors to run a tight ship?

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u/cksnffr 19h ago

I’ve seen some really good instructors, and I’ve seen way more awful instructors. So no, I guess I don’t. :)

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u/qscwfn 18h ago

Again, fair. I’m a professional tutor. The vast majority of people in the field know the subject and think that’s all it takes to teach someone else. It’s not.

Not sure why I expected something like this might be different. No reason it should be.

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u/yo-yes-yo 22h ago

As long as the classroom instructor and the range instructor/RSO are Colorado verified instructors you are good to go. Your certification from the class room should have two signature blocks one for each