Handgun ~ 101

• Firearm Basics

  1. Basic Firearm (Handgun) Safety

     1. The Four rules of gun safety

  2. Safe Firearm Storage & Transportation with & without a CCW

• Understanding the Handgun

  1. The Basics

     1. Pistol

        • Parts and Operation

        • Single Action and Double Action, DAO, SA/DA

     2. Revolver

        • Parts and Operation

        • Single Action and Double Action

  2. Common Terminology

     1. Magazine versus Clip

     2. Single Stack, Double Stack

     3. Types of firing systems

     • Single Action

     • Double Action

     • Striker

  3. Ammunition

     1. Parts of a round of ammunition

     2. Round (or flat) nose versus hollow points (HP illegal in NJ)

     3. How to tell which ammo is for your gun

     4. What goes wrong & how to deal with those problems

     5. Ammo interchangeability

• Basics of shooting a handgun (6 steps)

• Cleaning and Maintaining Handguns

  1. Disassembly & Reassembly

     1. Field Strip

     2. Cleaning Basics

• Question and Answer Time (about 20 min.)