I agree with this. A buddy at work is an ex-marine, now gone NRA instructor for almost 10 years. He hosts CHL classes most weekends, as well as other shooting/training programs, and he had issues with what subject matter to cut from his course when the requirement was 12 hours. Now he needs to figure out where to cut another 4 hours of instruction. He's not happy. He truly enjoys educating future carriers and pushes inexperienced shooters to take his proficiency courses in addition to the now-more-anemic CHL class. I understand it's a shooters responsibility to manage in range time to keep skills up, but gun laws and proper safety plays as big a part, if not more importantly. Proficiency testing may be a good way to give educated and experienced shooters a fast track option through the class, but I'd vote an extensive written test should be mandantory followed by the shooting test