California FSC Gun Test 2026

FSC practice test 2026 for California. 256 questions with answers from the DOJ Firearm Safety Certificate study guide, so you walk into the gun store ready to pass the test first time. You cannot buy a gun in California until you pass the FSC test. Thirty questions at the gun store counter, twenty three right to pass, and you find out how it went standing there with a line behind you. This app is the practice you do the night before. WHAT THE FSC TEST IS The Firearm Safety Certificate test is a written test. You take it at a licensed gun dealer, no appointment, no class, a DOJ certified instructor hands you the paper. Any California gun store that sells firearms can give it. Thirty questions, true or false and multiple choice, 75 percent to pass, which is 23 right. You need to be 18 and bring a California driver license or state ID. The certificate is good for five years, then you take the test again, so renewal needs this as much as a first purchase. Miss it and the fee covers a second attempt, but not for 24 hours, so you drive back another day. FSC PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - Quick Test: 10 questions, for the five minutes you have in a parking lot. - Mock Exam: a 30 question practice test, the same length and mix as the real FSC exam. - Timed Mock Exam: 30 questions in 30 minutes, 23 to pass. The clock is this app's idea, the real test is not timed. - Practice by topic: one topic at a time, up to 20 questions. - Fix Your Mistakes: every question you get wrong comes back until it stops being a mistake. - Question of the Day: one question a day with a streak. - Handbook: a 19 chapter study guide that covers the whole written test, if you would rather read it than drill it. - Your Progress: your score per topic, so you stop revising what you already know. Every one of the 256 answers is explained, and answers cite the California Penal Code section behind them where there is one, so you can check any answer at the source, not on an app's word. WHAT THE GUN TEST COVERS - A: Gun safety rules - B: Handling and operation - C: Firearms and children - D: Storage, transport and ownership - E: California gun laws and buying a firearm - F: Range and first aid, bonus material beyond the official test THE PART NOBODY WARNS YOU ABOUT Passing the written test is not the last step. Before the dealer hands the gun over you perform a safe handling demonstration in front of the instructor and sign an affidavit that you did it. Open the action, check the chamber, keep it pointed somewhere sensible, load and unload. The app walks you through it step by step, so you are not learning it at the counter. WHERE THE QUESTIONS COME FROM Topics A to E follow the 2025 California DOJ Firearm Safety Certificate study guide the real test is drawn from. Topic F is this app's own addition and goes beyond the official test. NO ADS, NO TRACKING, WORKS OFFLINE No account, no ads, no analytics, nothing you do in the app leaves your phone. Everything works without a connection, so you can run a quiz outside the gun store. Purchases go through Google Play. WHAT IS FREE AND WHAT IS NOT Free: topics A, B and C at seven questions each, the Quick Test drawn from that pool, 11 of the 19 handbook chapters, mistake practice, and the question of the day drawn from the entire bank. One purchase opens all 256 questions, topics D, E and F, the other 8 chapters, the Mock Exam, the Timed Mock Exam and the longer safe handling run. One payment, no subscription. You take the FSC test once every five years, so a weekly charge never made sense. WHAT COMES WITH THE QUESTIONS 47 illustrations: pistol and revolver parts, ammunition, grip and trigger discipline, gun safes, gunshot first aid. The handbook walks the route, from the test at the gun store to the DROS check and the 10 day wait. It follows the DOJ study guide at oag.ca.gov/firearms. This app sells no firearms or ammunition and carries no instructions for making them. Good luck at the counter.