The Iowa Valley Community College in Grinnell Iowa is offering a gunsmithing course. Anyone here heard any information about the program yet other than what is available through the web page?

For the heck of it, went to the web site for a look see. Not much info. Pic at the top suggests you'll learn about AR15 (ho hum). "letter of application" for "possible" admission? When I went to school, many years ago, they were wondering if there would be enough students to keep the program alive!

Keep in mind Guys that Grinnel is Where Brownnel's just built a very big and new building for their expansion. Just saying. And I know that they are putting in some nice machinery as well. And as we all know you don't need much machinery for an AR build.

I thought there was some involvment but have trouble figuring it out. I did find some more about it.
I found the following listing of classes but no instructor, contact information, or course related content.
Firearms Bench Metal
Stockmaking
Gunsmith Machining
Firearms History & Development
Introduction to Firearms

Do not see anything about troubleshooting and repair unless it is in the intro to firearms section. Will have to look at other schools and see how thier programs are listed.

Last year when I was in Trinidad the scuttlebutt was that Brownells was withdrawing there support for Trinidad and throw their support to a school in Iowa. Look like it came true

The snow skiing must be better in Iowa.

Interesting. I became interested when I was contacted about applying for the instructor position. I declined to apply for several reasons. I simply do not have the time to plan, start up, instruct, and recruit. I would like to see what they come up with though. I still have not determined Brownell's involvement. I can't imagine why they would sever ties with Trinidad. Any guesses?