# COMAR Title 12 — Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services

## Subtitle 04 — Police Training and Standards Commission

### Chapter 02 — Firearms Training

#### Regulation .04 Entrance-Level Firearms Classroom Instruction, Training, and Qualification — Primary Handgun.

*COMAR 12.04.02.04*

A. An individual shall successfully complete the minimum requirements for entrance-level handgun classroom instruction, training, and qualification established under this regulation before using or carrying a primary handgun.

B. Except as required in §C of this regulation, the minimum entrance-level classroom instruction, training, and qualification for a primary handgun includes:

  (1) 35 hours of classroom instruction, training, and qualification;

  (2) Classroom instruction topics marked with an “X” under Entrance-Level Handgun Training in the table under Regulation .10B of this chapter;

  (3) The following activities conducted over a minimum of three calendar days:

    (a) Firearms training exercises; and

    (b) A course of fire for qualification for scoring that includes:

      (i) Three consecutive day-fire courses of fire; and

      (ii) One reduced light course of fire;

  (4) Use of ammunition authorized by the individual's law enforcement agency, or the ballistic equivalent when firing for qualification;

  (5) Discharging a minimum of 1,000 rounds of ammunition for firearms training and qualification collectively; and if the primary sighting device is a red dot sight then a minimum of 20 percent of the rounds must be fired using the firearm's iron sight; and

  (6) The course of fire requirements outlined in the table under Regulation .05 of this chapter.

C. The following requirements shall be imposed if the handgun is equipped with a red dot sight:

  (a) At least one of the three consecutive day-fire courses must be fired with the iron sight; and

  (b) One reduced light course will be fired with each of the handgun's sighting devices.