Participants must have turned 11 years old by 11/1/2024.

Sponsored by the Rainbow Sportsmen's Club

The firearm safety classes consist of a minimum of 12 hours of classroom and range experience in the safe handling of firearms and hunter responsibility. Students will learn safe gun handling, gun care and storage, hunter responsibility, gun safety in the home, marksmanship and more. One range day experience will be scheduled sometime toward the end of the school year, as weather permits, at Rainbow Sportsmen’s Club, and will allow students to learn and demonstrate commonly accepted principles of safety in hunting and the handling of firearms. It includes live fire on a rifle range.

Students are required to attend the entirety of all classes and the range day. A parent/guardian must sign a waiver at the beginning of the first class. A fee of $7.50 will be paid to the DNR online after the completion of the class. Register early--maximum 35. Note: for more courses in the area visit www.dnr.state.mn.us

You will be notified when a gun safety manual and homework list is ready to be picked up from the Community Education office prior to the course beginning. There is coursework/reading to be completed prior to the first classroom date.