Quote Originally Posted by Stuart View Post
When I suggested using matches to get my CCW a few years ago, everyone tore me apart about it!


*Well, I didn't already have a CCW like you do though.
I think if you can competently shoot in a match you're qualified to have a CCW for the following reasons. You are held accountable for how you handle a firearm (mess up, you get a warning, mess up again and you are asked not to participate) and most importantly you can SHOOT.
My case in point is when I took my CCW class in Az, they required us to "qualify" which means you shoot a fat albert sized target within 10'. The guy next to me pulls out this 6" plus Ruger GP100 .357 to use for qualifying. My first thought was, "great concealment gun" and then when we were done shooting, he failed qualification. That was only ten rounds fired. At least at a match you are shooting a minimum of 50.