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Agree with Tex. I do not care who is in the class as long as they are legally eligible to possess a firearm. I primarily teach LTC, but also do "Introduction to Pistol Shooting" (not the official NRA Basic Pistol). Over the last 3-4 years I have seen a huge increase in women and minorities in the classes. Due to my location near Fort Cavazos (formerly Hood), I also get quite a few in the 18–20-year-old range. Originally, it was just soldiers, but since recent rulings, I have had a number of 19–20-year-old female students whose parents felt that they needed to know how to shoot before going off or back to college.

Unlike Tex, my classes are a bit smaller (5-10) and for LTC full class, they are expected to know how to safely load, unload, and handle a firearm and as I put it, be able to hit the "broad side of a barn" at 3 and 7 yards. This is emphasized when they sign up and again at the beginning of class. Students in my full class rarely fail to qualify (though some just barely). Where I have run into a problem is with the On-Line students who insist that they do not need the 1-2 hours of instruction that is mandated and just need to shoot. I point out to them the section of the LTC 100 where I have to sign off that I gave them 1-2 hours of instruction. Failures of the on-line students for me run about 10%.