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Legal CLE course on firearms
What a great idea! (For nonlawyers, the current fad is for a bar assn to require so many hours of continuing legal education (CLE) per year. In Arizona, it's 15 hours. You pay thru the nose (about $40/hour average) and often are bored to tears. Instead, in South Carolina you can train with a handgun, get your CCW permit, and discuss ballistics, and earn six of those hours.
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Unfortunately, CLE courses tend to be like that, a total waste of time, no matter what the profession. I am a CISA and have to have to report 120 hours every three years. a minimum of 20 per year. About the only way to do that is to go to the annual convention at the cost of several Thousand dollars. Most people who do so are sent by their companies.
I am not as I teach so I am in arrears on it. I am giving it up and retiring instead :)
In case anyone is interested, the Indiana Supreme Court does not recognize classes at Thunder Ranch as eligible for CLE. I tried . . . got denied.
The Missouri Bar has been doing Firearms Law CLE seminars for a number of years. (Alan Gura was the featured speaker two years ago.) And while speakers have occasionally brought (unloaded) weapons to their talk, none of the programs have ever involved hands on training in proper gun handling. Nor do we have a program that gives credit for the legal portion of our state's mandatory classroom training for a concealed carry permit.
I'm going to forward the link to the Missouri Bar folks that plan these things. Many thanks.
Fuck, I still owe the FL bar a bunch of hours.
And I bend over backwards to avoid taking CLE from my state bar. As it is, they charge the heck out of me for the membership and I basically get NOTHING in return. Nothing other than the "privilege" of practicing law in this state. I'll be darned if I'm gonna pay 'em any more than I have to for their stupid CLE courses, which are as a rule, a total waste of time and nothing more than a revenue generator for the bar association.