lets see, i paid $100 for the class, and they provided the fingerprint cards, photos, and showed us how to fill out the application. then it was another $100 to the State Concealed Handgun Permit Program with all the documents and i was good to go.
then there was three different holsters bought, for different types of concealement totaling something like $200.
i forget how much it will be to renew. occasionally the classes are offered free of charge. the class i took is held twice a month, and they max out at 20 individuals each class. they alone see nearly 500 people per year. so for a side business, they take in almost $50,000 before figuring the expenses:
range time: estimating $5 a head, times 20 heads, times 24 classes = $2400
average cost of fingerprinting: $15 = $7200
film for cameras and onsite developing= $? maybe $500 total for the year?
by those estimates they're still looking at $39,000+ a year for spending 2 sundays a month instructing the legal/tactical aspects of ccw.