Did not have a permit to carry arms from PA to NJ.
I think the courses and training should still be around if people want to take them. They are beneficial to people who don’t have a lot of experience with weapons and the instructors could assist them in figuring out what type of gun would be best for their carry requirements. Helpful for people who don’t know guns and don’t have the experience.
I also think this whole loss of 2a b/c of “domestic violence” heresay or yelling at someone needs to be addressed and shot down.
“Domestic violence” charges can be brought on heresay and one judge’s opinion. It is too broad a charge because it can be verbal abuse. How many women have gone on screaming rants against boyfriends and husbands? Can work both ways here.
But it is ridiculous to lose 2a rights over a misdemeanor offense. If its minor it’s minor. If its a felony its a felony. We have actual real distinctions for what is serious violence. Yelling at someone isn’t a felony. Or a violent misdemeanor.
If it is every liberal protesting and screaming and beating up Trump folks that were not charged with felonies should lose their 2a rights for yelling and pushing thse they are also screaming at.
This is the other major consistency with the law and that is somehow yelling and shouting and such at a stranger doesn’t make you lose 2a rights but if its someone in your family, you do. Totally crazy. Who is one more apt to get into an argument over time, someone you are around a far greater amount of the time, for the duration of your lives, or a transient stranger?
This whole idiocy needs to be shut down.
It would be nice to be legal again.
Make all large sellers give free gun safety classes several times a day. Make the small ones do it one or two days a week.
If they really want an informed and responsible armed public, make training unavoidably convenient and free!
do any other Freepers
live in Stickland’s district?
Gun safety should be part of public schooling more so than sex ed.
Swimming should also be part of public schooling. It would save a lot of lives.
Firearms training should be universal and age appropriate from Kindergarten onward. Possession and bearing of arms should be a universal requirement with limited exceptions for the physically and mentally infirm. No such thing as a gun free zone save for the prisoner side of the bars in prisons. Carry mandatory for travel on public conveyance. Terrorism would end.
Second, I'm all in favor of unrestricted gun rights (mail order rifles, allowing ownership of full auto weapons and suppressors and so on), but fer the love a God - there are a lot of newbies out there (and even some seasoned veterans) who don't understand such basics as muzzle discipline, "booger hook off the bang switch" till you're ready to shoot, and so on.
I think you should have to take a one hour safety course upon first time purchase of a firearm, offered free by the dealer. At a minimum at least have the purchaser sign that they've read a bullet list of gun safety points.
Before people get all weird on me about this, I've seen a LOT of idiotic things done with guns. I sat in a courtroom while a detective on the witness stand examined a 1911 style Colt in .38 Super, being careless with muzzle discipline and having his finger in the trigger guard, casually pointing it at the jury and spectators while looking it over. While you presume that someone cleared the weapon before it was brought into the courtroom, I wouldn't bet my life on that.
Just my experience.
Did not have a permit to carry arms from PA to NJ.