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If I remember correctly, the NRA prohibits the handling of live firearms and ammunition in the classroom portions of their courses. If this guideline had been applied in the classroom at the gun shop in Ohio, this fatality would have been completely avoided.

I do not claim to be an expert, but I have taken several handgun classes and regularly participated in a recurring training cycle that included malfunction drills. A key point is that all of those drills, whether conducted indoors or outdoors, were conducted on a range, never in a classroom.

The instructor in the recurring training cycle had us use commercially-available dummy ammunition (essentially, empty nickel cases capped with fluorescent-colored plastic "bullets") to prepare simulated double feeds during drills. However, we sometimes interspersed dummy rounds with live rounds to simulate failures-to-fire during strings of live fire, and we never experienced a problem or near miss with this practice.

One other thing: this is not the first time I have heard of people getting shot and injured in an Ohio-compliant concealed carry course. However, I do not know whether the course requirements mandated by the state of Ohio, or the way individual instructors implement those requirements, may be the root cause of these negligent/unintentional (take your pick) discharges.