The Canadian Firearms Safety Course Exam

The Canadian Firearms Safety Course for Non-restricted rifles and shotguns and the Canadian Restricted Firearms Safety Course for Restricted firearms each have their own exams. Both exams have a written, multiple choice test and a practical session in which you have to demonstrate safe handling of several firearms in different scenarios. There are 50 questions on the written portion: two thirds are true/false with the rest being multiple choice. You have to get 80% to pass.

In the practical part, you will be asked to handle three different kinds of firearms, under different conditions. Every time you handle a firearm, you must perform ACTS & PROVE, with marks deducted for missing any of the necessary steps. You lose two points every time you; point a gun outside of the designated safe direction, put your finger unnecessarily inside the trigger guard, attempt to load the wrong ammunition or fail to do a necessary ACTS & PROVE. You also need to get 80% on this portion to pass.

If you point a firearm at any person (including yourself), you fail the exam. The only exception to this rule is when doing a visual bore inspection.

On the tests most people typically take about 20 minutes for each of the CFSC exam sections: there is no time limit so you can take as long as you like.