Right now, as has been said before, the plan is for there to be an online test (which is already there) and then for us to be able to cross certify each other at the range. They figure that if you are certifying possibly hundreds of students per month, why can't they trust us to certify each other? We still can't just certify ourselves because they actually had a student just 2 weeks ago come to the instructors course whom they had to show how to put bullets in their gun! So we will have to certify with another instructor.
Now this hasn't happened yet but it is the plan and it's far enough along that it's in legal for review. There are no plans to repeat the 30+ days of 50 students per day coming into town for a class. And now with 2,455 instructors, subtracting for the ones who aren't expiring now at about 80 per class that means about 40 classes of people traveling in and getting scheduled into a class. This isn't something that is a reasonable use of state funds. Of course, that doesn't mean the state would do what is reasonable either
. So this is just confirming the rumors are the plans. But they could still change. It is the state after all
