Permitless Carry.
I am of two minds. I am a bit of an individual rights absolutist. You should be able to carry from the word jump.
But I also like equipment and training requirements. $1000 for a gun and holster and ammo. $1000 worth of decent training. Just spitballing it. And more training and practice after that. Not just the $200 training class that some places make you do before issuing a CCW.
But I am very much against the government mandating that requirement. In my perfect world you require yourself to invest in that. No one tells you to. Like I said yesterday.
My perfect world and the world we live in are two different things. A bit of a contradiction.
I err on the side of zero regulation and Vermont style carry. And I don't lose any sleep over some jurisdictions with reasonable extra shall-issue requirements. NONE of those requirements in any state has people taking $1000 worth of training with $400 worth of ammo (assuming $500 gun and $100 holster). Not to my knowledge.
I need to take more and varied training classes. Like Masaad's, for one.
(And that $1000 is a starting point. But I like learning new things)
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CCW class in this neck of the woods runs ~$100, with guns and ammo provided. (Because the instructors got tired of having to hold up the class and assist someone with their $250 Jammomatic.)
But seriously, very few people in this area are going to cough up $1,000 for a carry piece. And fewer will pay that much for courses. Mortgages, car payments, insurance, kids, and so on. They might go out to a friend's farm and shoot a box of Wally-World ball into the side of a creek's ravine once or twice a year.
You can't even get people to sign up for first-aid courses, which they arguably might have more of a need to use those skills.
It's not $1000 for a carry piece. It's the gun, the holster, and the first pile of ammo, but yes, I get your point.
So, there's no reason why gun stores couldn't require, and even possibly fund, gun safety and marksmanship classes before they sold you a gun. Not government interference with 2A rights. Maybe it would hurt business, or maybe the safety-minded would support such a policy and it would be a net gain. I dunno.
Jon,
Right. The gun store in the next town wouldn't do that and the gun store which required proof of a safety class would soon have a "For Rent" sign in the window.
I believe gun safety training should return to elementary schools. Like it was when I was a kid.
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