Code of Maryland Regulations
Title 12 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES
Subtitle 04 - POLICE TRAINING AND STANDARDS COMMISSION
Chapter 12.04.02 - Firearms Training
Section 12.04.02.02 - Definitions

(a) "Agency head" means:

(b) "Agency head" includes a director of an academy or a training unit, or a designee, authorized to act in employment or training matters.

(a) "Classroom instruction" means training conducted in a traditional educational setting; for example, in a room with desks, chairs, books, paper, and other educational tools or equipment.

(b) "Classroom instruction" does not include training conducted on a firing line.

(a) "Course of fire" means a sequence of activities related to the actual discharge of a firearm on a firing line for training or qualification.

(b) "Course of fire" does not include classroom instruction.

(a) "Day-fire" means firearms training or qualification, or both, conducted during normal outdoor lighting conditions that exist between dawn and dusk.

(b) "Day-fire" includes the indoor equivalent or other lighting conditions that simulate normal outdoor lighting conditions that exist between dawn and dusk.

(a) "Firing line controller" means the line instructor or firearms instructor responsible for issuing commands on a firing line during firearms training and qualification.

(b) "Firing line controller" includes a line instructor actually on the firing line or in a structure overseeing the firearms training and qualification conducted on the firing line.

(a) "Handgun" has the meaning stated in Public Safety Article, § 5-101, Annotated Code of Maryland.

(b) "Handgun" includes a:

(a) "Iron sight" means a system of shaped alignment markers, typically metal or plastic that are used as a sighting device to assist an individual in aiming a firearm.

(b) "Iron sight" does not mean an optical, computing, red dot, or reflex style sighting device.

(a) Differentiate between threat levels; and

(b) Respond appropriately to an identified threat.

(a) "Law enforcement agency" has the meaning stated in Public Safety Article, § 3-201, Annotated Code of Maryland.

(b) "Law enforcement agency" includes an academy, personnel unit, or training unit authorized by the Commission to act in training matters or provide law enforcement training.

(a) "Line instructor" means an individual certified by the Commission according to the requirements established under 12.04.06 to conduct law enforcement firearms training and qualification on a firing line.

(b) "Line instructor" may not perform classroom instruction.

(a) "Long gun" means a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder.

(b) "Long gun" includes a:

(a) "Optical sighting device" means an optic mechanism that assists an individual in sighting a firearm by enhancing or magnifying the image of the target and superimposing a reticle, or an aligned aiming point, over the image.

(b) "Optical sighting device" does not include an iron sight or a red dot sight.

(a) Discharging a single round of ammunition with a pull of the trigger;

(b) Clearing the chamber of the spent casing; and

(c) Loading the next round of ammunition in the chamber.

(a) "Reduced light" means the normal outdoor lighting conditions that exist between dusk and dawn.

(b) "Reduced light" includes simulated natural outdoor lighting conditions such as:

(a) "Red dot sight" means a generic term to describe a visual, computing, or reflex sighting device that reflects a reticle, or an aligned aiming point that can be any shape or color, onto a combining glass for superimposition on a target.

(b) "Red dot sight" does not include an optical sighting device or an iron sight.

(a) On the same side of the body where an individual would normally carry a handgun in a holster; and

(b) That the individual would primarily use to discharge a firearm.

(a) "Training" means a demonstration or an exercise, in addition to classroom instruction, provided by an individual certified under COMAR 12.04.06, to enhance understanding, proficiency, marksmanship, and other skills related to proper firearm use and tactics such as movement, multiple targets, judgmental or decision training, and use of cover and concealment.

(b) "Training" may include drills that involve discharging rounds.

(a) "Type 4 long gun" means a long gun manufactured and sold as a shotgun that is designed to discharge a single projectile or multiple projectiles from a single round of ammunition.

(b) "Type 4 long gun" includes a long gun manufactured and sold as a shotgun regardless of the: