[Travis McGee]

what I have advocated for a long time: namely that a person should be required to have at the least the knowledge (legal and technical), mental stability, and skill possessed by a LEO academy graduate before the former is allowed to even purchase a weapon.

No friggin way. The power to approve is the power to deny. I don't want the govt in the position to determine who may purchase a firearm, except in the cases of certified mental illness, violent felony record etc.

[tracer]

Agreed, but in an ideal world it would be nice if Joe Lunchbucket knew what he was doing when he toted a sidearm. Perhaps the use of training as an affirmative defense would be good.

It already has a place in American jurisprudence, and graduation from Maas Ayoob's one-week school, with the accompanying/required hand-written student notebook and Ayoob's testimony as an expert witness for the defense has been known to work in a defendant's favor...