Same Fed law to buy, no registration here either...
It is the carry law that I was speaking of. Texas has that certification process with licensed instructors that Washington doesn't have. We just have to pay the money and pass the background check. There is no training requirement.
It isn't that I support people carrying weapons they aren't good with.... I can't fault the idea of training, who could? It is just that to me, requiring training assumes a problem that doesn't exist. We don't have accidental shootings in malls because people don't know how to shoot. People who carry concealed weapons feel that responsibility the minute they pull their jacket over it and pick up the car keys to go out. Most know their weapons and train because they took their defense seriously enough to want to be armed. They learn to shoot because it is of the utmost interest to them to be good. I can see how training gets in the regulation, but it is a feel-good requirement that is just another tax collected as a fee and probably doesn't do much to actually make a citizen safer with their gun in public than they would have been without it.
Yeah, that's it. Here to carry you have to have the training class to get the license. I have not done that. I don't remember when this law went into effect but I think it was maybe in the neighborhood of 10 years ago. I carried anyway through maybe the first 5 years of it. Now I am more hesitant because they enforce it more than they did at first.
It is offensive to me. That was the reason I never took the training class to get the license. I have been planning to finally go take the class for about a year now but just haven't gotten one of those "round tuits." Yes, there are times when if stopped I would prolly be hauled off to jail.... but, still that thing irks me!