The NRA Personal Protection Outside the Home
course participants must be experienced shooters who posses the basic knowledge
and skills of safe gun handling and handgun shooting. They must also have
the basic knowledge, skills and attitudes taught in the NRA's Basics of
Personal Protection in the Home Course.
Validation of the required skills and experience can be demonstrated by one
of the following:
Possession of a NRA Basics of Personal Protection in the Home completion
certificate; or,
Passing the PPOTH Pre-Course Evaluation (below).
PPOTH Pre-Course Evaluation Checklist
Take the NRA Basics of Personal Protection in the Home student
course examination and score 88% or higher.
State and demonstrate the three fundamental NRA Rules for
Safe Gun Handling.
Demonstrate the proper loading, cocking, uncocking, and unloading
procedures with a revolver and semi-automatic pistol with dummy cartridges,
including the handgun the student will use during the course.
Demonstrate the ability to shoot two, five-shot groups
nine-inches or smaller in the middle of a target from a two-handed standing
position at a distance of 21 feet, using the handgun the student will use
during the course, in the following exercises:
Preliminary dry-firing exercise (showing safe handling and correct
form)
Single shot live-fire exercise (load and fire one cartridge at a
time, five times)
Multi-shot live-fire exercise (loading and firing five cartridges at
a time)
