I have my LTC but have a friend just getting into guns. She took the online class and wants to do her qualification portion after she practices to bring up her comfort level and accuracy. Here's the question...can she use a pistol with a dot? I plan on loaning her my Shadow 2 but a local instructor refuses to allow her to use any type of optics; iron sights only. Is this a personal preference of the instructor or is this coming from DPS? I searched the DPS website but haven't seen anything about using optics.