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This incident seems to have happened during the live fire portion of the MO CCW class. The standard course curriculum involves a classroom portion where you handle the legal and safety items, then you adjourn to a range for a course of live fire consisting of a 50 round practice string and a 20 or 25 round (I don't remember which) qualification string.
Needless to say, a nonfunctional firearm won't work in a live fire practice session. While I agree that such a tool is far better than a real gun, ESPECIALLY a loaded one, the point is that this was the wrong place and time for this kind of practice.
It remains that the instructor was trying to include too much in the class. He was introducing advanced concepts to students who are assumed to have barely the most basic of skill sets when it was neither required nor really a good idea. By the time you get to the range and start involving live ammo in a MO CCW course, any introductory gun handling should have long since been completed. That is no time to have people doing strange things, and it goes triple for doing them with a strange gun.
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