Armed Personal Defense, Phoenix

Just a couple of things in response to this comment. There are several advantages to having a concealed weapons permit in Arizona. The commenter refers to one of them, the ability to bypass the background check. A more important reason is for reciprocity/recognition with 36 states that will allow Arizona residents with a CCW to carry while visiting. Regarding the lack of range time in our class, Arizona dropped the requirement for range time when the law changed in 2012. Our class is clearly advertised as not having range time. The range facility where we deliver the class charges $15 per student for range time. If we did include range time as part of the course at the price we sell if for on GroupOn, we would essentially make zero dollars per student. If the student wanted range time, they should have paid more and signed up for a class that offers it. In fairness, the commenter is leaving out the issue that there was a disagreement on, specifically whether or not an individual can legally have a firearm in their vehicle in a post office parking lot. Originally, there was a Federal District court decision from 2013 that stated that a person could have a firearm in their vehicle in a parking lot. Later a Court of Appeals decision in 2015 overturned this District court ruling. Finally, there was a Supreme Court decision in 2016 affirming the decision of the appellate court. When the student later emailed me information from a concealed carry magazine article about this topic, I researched the topic further and found that he was, in fact, correct, and I told him so in my email reply. I went back and read the email I sent him and thought I was just being factual. Apparently that was interpreted as arrogance on my part. Go figure. Further, to try and say that I am placing my students at risk of committing a felony with my error on this bit of information is unbelievably misleading. How many of you have had your car subjected to a search by law enforcement when you drive into the post office parking lot? This is what would have to happen to be caught committing this “felony”. Bottom line, the information I had was simply out of date. There was no intent to mislead. What was correct information at one point was reversed in a multi-year court case that had virtually no visibility outside the CCW community. I admitted my mistake and corrected the information in my curriculum. To use this single error to imply that I don’t know my subject matter is unfair, inappropriate and ignores the value of the other information delivered over a four hour course.