I have one of those bent suckers in my shoe box of AR tools! :p
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Why should other companies be able to dictate what another teaches? This class is designed for those who can't attend the others. I am not teaching Colts curriculum nor do I care what they think. I recently sat through my 4thAAC recert through Colt and it was terrible. The instructor was still telling people to stagger gas rings and to use light lube on the BCG.
Gunz, e-mail sent for McDonough enrollment.
But the question still stands as to what merit your "Certification" has in the real world for those who wish to use it as a form of "Official" training/certification for professional reasons such as working for a manufacturer as one member stated or repairing L/E rifles in a armory as another suggested.
There is a reason why AR manufactures usually have authorized factory certified persons training new armorers for the reason of liability.
For example if I repair a Colt AR according to Colts procedures and the rifle takes a shit and some one is injured I can show in a court if I was arrested or sued that I was trained by a certified Colt AR armorer who was authorized to train me. I used prudent care and caution as directed and taught by Colt and as long as I did not do some thing stupid procedure wise I would most likely prevail.
On the other hand I have a certification from a secondary individual who is not authorized to train me in the repair of any manufacture of AR rifle and the same situation occurs and I end up in court. I subpoena my trainer to court and if he showed most likely would be chewed apart on the stand as the prosecution would most certainly use Official Colt AR armorer trainers to state my secondary certification is worthless in their eyes and my trainer was not authorized to certify me. I can see a very bad out come for me if I were to go this route.
Iraqgunz I have said in the past that I have absolutely "NO" issue with you personally but the folks who are going to pay $400.00 for a certification course should known that the certificate they will receive would be more symbolic in nature then official.
I have a certification from Sionics. Is it any any different than a Bushmaster cert? What about the class that Dean Caputo or others teach?
Let me also ad this. I never claimed that anyone will get a job or otherwise. I am simply offering a course which most civilians cannot attend, which is no different than attending some HSLD shooting class.
I understand what you are saying but think it is over reacting to think that you must have every manufacturers stamp of approval before replacing items on a run of the mill AR of some type. At our agency we've got Colt, RRA's, and Bushmasters that are department owned and issued. Individually owned AR's include Noveske, BCM, Ranier Arms, and Daniel Defense. I do about 95% of the work that has to be done to them, which really isn't too much on a yearly basis. Is it realistic to think that I need 6-8 certs to replace gas rings, a BCG, FCG, or barrel?
Iraqgunz
I think its great that your offering a fee based service to show interested persons who may not be able to attend a certified instructional course the In's and outs of the basic AR rifle. I was only asking what accreditation a attendee would receive once the course was completed.
So from your response one would receive a certificate of completion for the course but it would not be recognized by any of the major AR manufacturers.
Basically a personal information/consumption type of course.
Thanks for the information.