The following statement is the new revised statement to replace the current one on page III-1 of the NRA Basic Personal Protection in the Home Course. You may copy or pencil the change into your Lesson plans until you order a new revised Lesson plan. Please pass this change onto your cadre of instructors in your area. This change is due to certain areas of the country which have a different description of the standards certification.

This lesson must be conducted by an attorney licensed to practice law within the state in which this course is given and who is familiar with this area of the law, or an individual currently certified to instruct this area of the law by the state in which this course is presented. NRA Certified Instructors may conduct this lesson only if they meet the requirements stated above and then only in their capacity as a state certified instructor or attorney, not in their capacity as an NRA Certified Instructor. Instructors are authorized to reproduce this lesson and provide a copy to the Lesson III presenter. It is essential to the quality of the lesson that the presenter is provided a copy of the lesson plan in advance of the class to allow for proper preparation and planning. Schedule your class and coordinate with the presenter to allow ample time for questions and answers during and at the end of this lesson.

The TC guide will be revised in the future, but for now there has been a change to pages 22-23 in regards to the hour requirements for Part Two of multi-discipline training courses. Personal Protection in the Home and Reloading Metallic Cartridge and Shotgun Shell instructor course hours have been added. There are several errors in the TC guide that will be addressed. In the Personal Protection Instructor lesson IX, there is a change from 10.5 hours to 9.0 hours (if you add the course lesson times, it comes out to 8.9 hours). Also, the course lessons reflect the basic Personal Protection in the Home lesson plan course lessons.

It has been noticed at some TC workshops that TC candidates (trainers) are unfamiliar with some lesson plans and the trainer's guide. Make sure you cover both BIT (Part I) and discipline (Part II) completely to help your instructor step up to TC.

We are compiling a list of instructors and training counselors who are fluent in languages other than English. In the past and now recently, we have been requested for names of NRA instructors. As you know, we have instructors in 26 other countries, but most instructors and training counselors who teach in other languages are here in the U.S. We presently have all NRA curricula in English, from which the trainers simply conduct the courses in the language they need, staying within the content of the lesson plans. Simply contact us via e-mail (trainingcounselor@nrahq.org), letter, fax, or write on your credential renewal to indicate which languages you're fluent in.