Gun safety classes

The schedule.

Twelve seats a class, three rooms around the neighbourhood, and a printed sheet at the door of every venue. No account, no booking fee, no signal needed — this page keeps working offline.

Register for a seat

The courses

Next sessions

The next few weeks.

Times are local. Seats left are what the desk knows this morning; a session that says full opens up when somebody cancels, and the door list is the honest one.

Fri 23 Oct 18:00 – 20:00 · Gun Safety 101Union Hall, 12 Magnolia St. · step-free entry · 12 seats

Sat 24 Oct 10:00 – 11:30 · Safe Storage & a safer homeOld library annex, 3 Chestnut Ave · first floor · 9 seats

Tue 27 Oct 18:30 – 21:00 · Handling, clearing & transportUnion Hall, 12 Magnolia St. · 4 seats — filling up

Thu 29 Oct 18:00 – 19:00 · The law, where you liveHilltop community room, 88 Alder Rd · bus 14 · 12 seats

Sat 31 Oct 10:00 – 12:00 · Gun Safety 101Union Hall, 12 Magnolia St. · 12 seats

Wed 4 Nov 18:30 – 19:30 · After a dischargeHilltop community room, 88 Alder Rd · 12 seats

Sat 7 Nov 10:00 – 11:30 · Safe Storage & a safer homeUnion Hall, 12 Magnolia St. · 12 seats

Tue 10 Nov 18:30 – 21:00 · Handling, clearing & transportOld library annex, 3 Chestnut Ave · 12 seats

Registration closes 24 hours before a session starts, or when the seats are gone — whichever happens first. Latecomers are welcome to come anyway and ask whether a seat is free.
If a session is cancelled (weather, instructor sick, venue closed) a note goes on the door of the venue and on the sheet at the desk. We do not phone around; we keep a list of the people who registered, and the note on the door is the one that never fails.
Holiday closures: no classes on 11 Nov, 24 Dec, 25 Dec, 1 Jan or 18 Jan. The standing classes move to the next week.

Standing classes

The same time, every week.

These run all year. Turn up at the door if a seat is free, or register ahead so we can hold one for you.

Tuesdays 18:30 – 21:00 · Handling, clearing & transportUnion Hall · from 10 Nov · 12 seats

Thursdays 18:00 – 19:00 · The law, where you liveHilltop community room · from 12 Nov · 12 seats

First Saturday 10:00 – 12:00 · Gun Safety 101Union Hall · 12 seats

Third Sunday 11:00 – 12:30 · Safe Storage & a safer homeOld library annex · 12 seats

When you have no signal

This page is cached on your phone after one visit, so the schedule still opens on a train with no bars. Print it once and it lives in a pocket, which is how most of the neighbourhood keeps a copy of anything that matters.

The run sheet

Thirty-five blocks, and the clock beside them.

This is the whole curriculum as a run sheet: one row per lesson, in the order the class runs it, with the minutes it takes. The clock column is the time from the start of the class, so a class that begins at 18:30 begins at +0:00. Nothing here is an estimate — the minutes in this table are the same minutes as the timing table in the curriculum, and the totals are the same totals.

Every lesson, in order

Class	Lesson	What happens	Clock	Minutes
Gun Safety 101	1.1	Welcome, and how this class works	+0:00	10
	1.2	What a firearm actually is	+0:10	20
	1.3	Rule one: treat every gun as loaded	+0:30	15
	1.4	Rule two: the muzzle, and what is behind you	+0:45	25
	1.5	Rule three: the trigger and the finger	+1:10	20
	1.6	Rule four: the target, the backstop, the bystander	+1:30	10
	1.7	You found a gun: the first ten seconds	+1:40	15
	1.8	Your plan, and the questions	+1:55	5
Handling, clearing & transport	2.1	Before you touch it: point first, finger last	+0:00	15
	2.2	The clearing sequence, step by step	+0:15	25
	2.3	Loading and unloading, the same way every time	+0:40	30
	2.4	Clearing a jam, and what not to do	+1:10	25
	2.5	Cased, unloaded, separate: moving it	+1:35	10
	2.6	The five-minute dry drill at home	+1:45	20
	2.7	The word “stop”, and how to use it	+2:05	15
	2.8	Questions, and your own firearm	+2:20	10
Safe Storage & a safer home	3.1	Locked: what counts as locked	+0:00	15
	3.2	Unloaded, and checked unloaded	+0:15	20
	3.3	Ammunition somewhere else	+0:35	15
	3.4	Out of sight, and the case for plain sight	+0:50	10
	3.5	Keys and codes, kept away from the gun	+1:00	15
	3.6	The people in the house	+1:15	10
	3.7	Vehicles, and a gun that goes missing	+1:25	5
The law, where you live	4.1	The federal floor	+0:00	10
	4.2	Buying, permits and background checks	+0:10	10
	4.3	Carrying: licence, place, age, and the places off limits	+0:20	15
	4.4	Storage laws, and what they ask of you	+0:35	10
	4.5	Transport, travel and vehicles	+0:45	10
	4.6	How to check the law where you live	+0:55	5
After a discharge — first aid	5.1	Make it safe, first	+0:00	15
	5.2	Call for help, and say the right words	+0:15	10
	5.3	Bleeding control: hands on, pressure on	+0:25	20
	5.4	Shock, and the things not to do	+0:45	5
	5.5	When no one was shot, but a gun was there	+0:50	5
	5.6	Afterwards: the report, the paperwork, the people to tell	+0:55	5

What each class adds up to

Lessons	Class	Length	Minutes
8	Gun Safety 101	2:00	120
8	Handling, clearing & transport	2:30	150
7	Safe Storage & a safer home	1:30	90
6	The law, where you live	1:00	60
6	After a discharge — first aid	1:00	60

Five classes, thirty-five lessons, four hundred and eighty minutes in total. Add the take-home practice and that is the whole year of a household that wants to do this properly.

One session, in wall-clock time

The Friday evening Gun Safety 101 at 18:00, as it actually runs on the night. The doors open at 17:50 for anybody who wants to look around first, and the class starts at 18:00 sharp.

Lesson	What happens	Clock	Minutes
1.1	Welcome, and how this class works	18:00	10 min
1.2	What a firearm actually is	18:10	20 min
1.3	Rule one: treat every gun as loaded	18:30	15 min
1.4	Rule two: the muzzle, and what is behind you	18:45	25 min
1.5	Rule three: the trigger and the finger	19:10	20 min
1.6	Rule four: the target, the backstop, the bystander	19:30	10 min
1.7	You found a gun: the first ten seconds	19:40	15 min
1.8	Your plan, and the questions	19:55	5 min

The class ends at 20:00, and the last five minutes are yours: bring the question you did not want to ask in front of the room.

Elsewhere

The schedule.

The next few weeks.

The same time, every week.

Thirty-five blocks, and the clock beside them.

Where to go next.

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