503 KAR 4:050 - Required content and conduct of applicant training course
RELATES TO: KRS 237.110, 237.122, 237.124
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: KRS 237.124(1) requires the department to operate a program for the training of applicants for a concealed deadly weapons license. KRS 237.124(2) authorizes the department to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the training program. This administrative regulation establishes the training program.
Section 1. An applicant
training course shall be:
(1) The standardized
training course furnished by the department; and
(2) Taught by a certified firearms
instructor.
Section 2.
Applicant Training Course Content.
(1)
Classroom instruction. An applicant training course shall include at least six
(6) hours, but not more than eight (8) hours, of classroom instruction,
covering the following topics:
(a) Handgun
safety in the classroom, at home, on the firing range or while carrying the
firearm;
(b) The basic principles
of marksmanship;
(c) Care and
cleaning of handguns; and
(d) By
means of a videotape produced by the department:
1. The requirements for obtaining a concealed
deadly weapons license in Kentucky;
2. Sections of KRS Chapters 237 and 527
relating to firearms; and
3.
Sections of KRS Chapter 503 relating to the justifiable use of force.
(2) Live firing
exercises. An applicant training course shall include live firing exercises of
sufficient duration for an applicant to fire a handgun:
(a) From a safe position;
(b) Without receiving any assistance in
holding, aiming, or firing from the instructor or any other person;
(c) Twenty (20) rounds observed by the
instructor. The instructor shall observe the applicant for each round fired,
including those fired after the applicant has hit the silhouette portion of the
target; and
(d) At a distance from
a department-approved, full-size silhouette target, of seven (7)
yards.
(3) If range
firing is conducted at a facility or range that requires a training instructor
or range officer to clear or directly supervise and assist in the clearing of
all firearm jams or malfunctions, the clearing of a firearm jam or malfunction
by a certified firearms instructor or facility range officer in accordance with
that policy shall not constitute prohibited assistance to a student for the
purposes of subsection (2)(b) of this section.
Section 3. The classroom portion of the
course shall be taught, at the certified firearms instructor's discretion, in
one (1) six (6) hour block or divided into segments of not less than one (1)
hour each.
Section 4.
(1) An applicant training course shall not be
open to persons who are less than twenty-one (21) years of age.
(2) An applicant training course student
shall complete:
(a) An "Applicant Request for
Training for License to Carry Concealed Deadly Weapons", Form #126-A, which
shall include a statement acknowledging receipt of copies of pertinent sections
of KRS Chapters 237, 527, and 503; and
(b) A "Release of Liability, Agreement to
Waive Claims, Express Assumption of Risks, and Indemnity Agreement," Form
#126-B.
Section
5. A certified firearms instructor shall not discuss the videotape
or KRS Chapters 237, 503, or 527 with students, either individually or as a
class.
Section 6.
(1) At the conclusion of the classroom
portion of an applicant training course, a certified firearms instructor shall:
(a) Distribute a standard course examination
to the students;
(b) Not leave the
room in which the examination is being held while the examination is in
progress, unless another certified firearms instructor is physically present in
the room to supervise the examination; and
(c) Collect examination booklets and answer
sheets from each student at the end of the examination period.
(2) At the conclusion of the
classroom portion of an applicant training course, a certified firearms
instructor may:
(a) Grade the applicant's
examination; and
(b) Provide the
applicant with his or her score.
Section 7. Except for an instructor, a person
shall not:
(1) Make a copy of the applicant
training course examination, in whole or in part;
(2) Possess an applicant training course
examination, or questions from an examination, unless authorized by the
department; or
(3) Divulge the
contents of applicant training course examination questions to another
person.
Section 8.
(1) A student shall use a safe, functional
handgun and factory-loaded ammunition.
(a) An
instructor or instructor trainer may choose to provide a safe, functional
handgun at the request of the student for use during the class.
(b) An instructor or an instructor trainer
shall not advertise that students will be furnished a handgun for use in the
class.
(c) A handgun shall not be
furnished unless special circumstances dictate the need to do so and the
student requests it.
(d) An
instructor or instructor trainer shall not charge a fee for furnishing a
handgun, but may recover the actual cost of ammunition that is provided at the
request of the student.
(2) Prior to conducting range firing, a
certified firearms instructor shall:
(a)
Inspect each applicant's firearm; and
(b) Not allow the firing of a handgun that
the instructor has reason to believe is not in sound mechanical condition or
otherwise may pose a safety hazard.
Section 9. A passing grade shall not be given
on range work to an applicant who:
(1) Does
not follow the orders of a certified firearms instructor;
(2) In the judgment of a certified firearms
instructor, handles a firearm in a manner that poses a danger to the applicant
or to others; or
(3) Fails to hit
the silhouette portion of a target with not less than eleven (11) rounds
without assistance in holding, aiming, or firing the firearm from the
instructor or another person.
Section
10. In accordance with the requirements of
KRS
237.110(22)(g), if the
department believes that an instructor has not complied with the requirements
for teaching a certified firearms instructor or applicant class, it shall send
a "VF-1 Verification Form" to each student who has been listed by the
instructor as having successfully completed the class taught by that
instructor.
Section 11.
(1) The "Applicant Request for Training for
License to Carry Concealed Deadly Weapons" and course fee required by
KRS
237.122 shall be sent to the department at
the same time as the class roster required by
KRS
237.110(22)(d).
(2) A certified firearms instructor may use a
"CCDW Training Class Roster Form," CCDW #5, to comply with the class roster
requirements of
KRS
237.110(22)(d).
Section 12. An applicant training
course shall not have more than:
(1) Forty
(40) students in the classroom portion; or
(2) Five (5) students per range officer
engaged in range firing. Students in a waiting area at a range facility who are
not actively engaged in loading, unloading or firing handguns shall not be
considered to be engaged in range firing for the purposes of this
subsection.
Section 13.
Incorporation by Reference.
(1) The following
material is incorporated by reference:
(a)
"Applicant Request for Training for License to Carry Concealed Deadly Weapons",
Form #126-A, July 2019, Department of Criminal Justice Training;
(b) "Release of Liability, Agreement to Waive
Claims, Express Assumption of Risks, and Indemnity Agreement," Form #126-B,
July 2019, Department of Criminal Justice Training;
(c) VF-1 "Verification Form", (6/02 edition),
Department of Criminal Justice Training; and
(d) CCDW #5 "CCDW Training Class Roster
Form", October 2015, Department of Criminal Justice Training.
(2) This material may be
inspected, copied, or obtained, subject to applicable copyright law, at
Department of Criminal Justice Training, Funderburk Building, 4449 Kit Carson
Drive, Richmond, Kentucky 40475-3137, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30
p.m.
(3) This material is also
available on the department's Web site at
https://www.docjt.ky.gov/forms.
Notes
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: KRS 237.124
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