I have a beretta i'll loan you to make as the final exam...
slide is a pain in the butt to clean and almost made me send off to a smith for reassembly
the old community college i used to go to also had a police academy (and small indoor firing range). one of the guys who taught elective ballistics/explosives/firearms ID that was open to everybody tried for a while to start a class that involved shooting instruction, but the college wanted nothing to do with the liability.
so yeah, while i'm sitting there looking at pictures of gun stuff in class, i'm hearing "pop pop pop" that OTHER people got to be doing... so jealous.