1. 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.

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

   1. (1) 35 hours of classroom instruction, training, and qualification;
   2. (2) Classroom instruction topics marked with an “X” under Entrance-Level Handgun Training in the table under Regulation .10B of this chapter;

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

      1. (a) Firearms training exercises; and

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

         1. (i) Three consecutive day-fire courses of fire; and
         2. (ii) One reduced light course of fire;
   4. (4) Use of ammunition authorized by the individual's law enforcement agency, or the ballistic equivalent when firing for qualification;
   5. (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. (6) The course of fire requirements outlined in the table under Regulation .05 of this chapter.

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

   1. (a) At least one of the three consecutive day-fire courses must be fired with the iron sight; and
   2. (b) One reduced light course will be fired with each of the handgun's sighting devices.

Authority: Correctional Services Article, §2-109; Public Safety Article, §§3-208 and 3-209; Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: February 20, 1981 (8:4 Md. R. 342)

Regulations .01, .02, .04, .06—.16 amended effective March 14, 1983 (10:5 Md. R. 465)

Regulation .02G and I amended, and J adopted effective July 4, 1983 (10:13 Md. R. 1180)

Chapter, Public Information Requests, repealed effective September 24, 1984 (11:19 Md. R. 1667)

Regulations .01—.21, Firearms Training and Instructor Certification Regulations, adopted effective January 1, 1992 (18:20 Md. R. 2199)

Regulation .10C amended effective July 1, 2000 (27:10 Md. R. 967)

Regulation .11E amended effective November 22, 1993 (20:23 Md. R. 1805)

Regulation .13 amended effective February 9, 1998 (25:3 Md. R. 146)

Regulation .14B, C amended effective July 1, 2000 (27:10 Md. R. 967)

Regulation .14C, D amended effective January 20, 2003 (30:1 Md. R. 25)

Regulation .19B, C amended effective November 22, 1993 (20:23 Md. R. 1805)

Regulation .20A, B amended effective November 22, 1993 (20:23 Md. R. 1805)

Regulations .01—.21 repealed and new Regulations .01—.13 adopted effective January 1, 2009 (35:24 Md. R. 2078)

Chapter revised effective January 1, 2013 (39:15 Md. R. 964)

Regulation .02B amended effective November 25, 2013 (40:23 Md. R. 1935); April 4, 2022 (49:7 Md. R. 468)

Regulation .03A amended effective April 4, 2022 (49:7 Md. R. 468)

Regulation .03C amended effective September 2, 2013 (40:17 Md. R. 1420)

Regulation .04B amended effective April 4, 2022 (49:7 Md. R. 468)

Regulation .04C adopted effective April 4, 2022 (49:7 Md. R. 468)

Regulation .07 amended effective April 4, 2022 (49:7 Md. R. 468)

Regulation .08B amended effective April 4, 2022 (49:7 Md. R. 468)

Regulation .09 amended effective April 4, 2022 (49:7 Md. R. 468)

Regulation .10B amended effective April 4, 2022 (49:7 Md. R. 468)