I understood you to mean a course requirement for purchasing a firearm. I have plenty of disdain for that.
I also understood that this was your first firearm ever. Looks like that is not the case but it wasn't clear in your original post.
38 is a good round. Focus on the front sight and go center mass. Good luck out there.
I hear that Michigan requires that. Gun ownership is a right not a privilege, I know this, but I also know that it's a perishable proficiency. You must practice to keep up, plus you should know the reality about using a gun.
For example, having a gun doesn't mean you have a right to shoot at someone in the back who is armless and tried to rob you.
I know there are many people on this forum who disagree with me, but it seems like instructors, gun shops, gun clubs are in favor of instruction and practice opportunities.
I don't like the federal gov’t telling me to do anything, quite frankly, but I'd like the debate at the state level on this.
It infuriates me the way this clown and the other democrats jump at every shooting that is now on the MSM news agenda including FOX to publicize every shooting...AND WHAT'S WORSE NOT TO PUBLICIZE THE FACT THAT THE SHOOTER IS BLACK, OR MUSLIM OR LIBERAL ETC.