I joined, its only 25 bucks, maybe your extra 25 dollars is what they need to fight the AWB.
AS far as the ccw goes, I think its harder at the SGC than other places. Shifty said his was cake, and if you failed, you could redo it. He also said it wasnt timed. Its not supposed to be timed, but at the gun club they tell you to shoot as quickly as possible, and its not just 10 rounds at each range. They tell you where to shoot, like a mozambeak (no clue how to spell that). The half of the class that I was with passed no problem, the other half had a few that got to redo a few shots. On top of that, everyone was extremely nervous, you had to do everything the way they said to do it, including standing nervous at low ready for 5 minutes without moving and inch.