Posted on 04/15/2012 5:29:04 AM PDT by rellimpank
Imagine sitting through a two-hour driving course without spending any time behind the wheel. Your course instructor strongly encourages you to take some driving lessons, including merging into traffic and parallel parking. But it's not required.
You send in your $50 and, in about a week, your driver's license arrives in the mail.
Does this make you feel safer on the roadways?
It shouldn't.
Now imagine taking a two-hour gun safety course in which you never actually handle a gun or even a facsimile of a gun.
Last week, I successfully completed a firearm safety course that's required by Wisconsin law to carry a concealed weapon.
It was the easiest class I ever took.
During the "listening session," my instructor went over the concealed weapon application with the 30 participants, gave the group examples of where we can and cannot legally take our firearms and talked about a gun owner's responsibility.
But we never handled a handgun, which to me seemed strange. Some of the questions ask by the participants could have been answered by simple common sense.
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This differs in every state. Florida requires that you be observed firing a pistol by a certified instructor. MOST people I know go through several hour-long or even weekend-long practical pistol training courses for their certificate of completion requirement. One local range offers two 6 hour weekend day training classes that include firing over 300 rounds in various situations.
And more importantly, DRIVING IS A PRIVILEGE, NOT A RIGHT! The right to self-defense with a firearm is ensconced in common law. We don’t have to train to use our fists or a knife or a metal rod sitting in a gutter either!
Some of the questions ask by the participants could have been answered by simple common sense.
I keep hearing about "common sense" applied to guns one way or another, it sounds like this course fits the bill perfectly, if a training is supposed to be required at all. What's the complaint? That you don't want the training to be "common sense"? What would you prefer in that case? Should liberals stop talking about "common sense" as applied to guns, if in fact that isn't what you want?
I'm not certain that a 2 hour course meets the requirements to obtain a permit in Wisconsin. If true then it sounds to me like the guy is fudging his article.....
A $50 fee to do what God has given us the the right to do when born...
No hands-on training or instruction is given in how to vote either...
Let me safely say, “You took the wrong course”. Indeed, taking such a course does NOT have to include handling of firearms but any good instructor(s) will provide you with a “handling” exercise. The course that my wife and I took did indeed require us to handle firearms in a safe manner. (Load, unload, holster, etc.) Maybe the instructor(s) were setting you up for a follow-up course with “hands on”, shooting, etc. Good luck and be safe!
In my state I walked into the county sheriff’s office and say, “hi Sam, I need a carry permit”. I fill out the application, have my photo taken and 6-weeks later the permit arrives.
In Nevada I had to attend a 6-hour course, go to the range and shoot 10-rounds each from three distances for each of the guns I wanted to register to carry. On the back of the carry card is a list of all guns and calibers which are permitted based on my qualifying. Nevada does not recognize permits from other states.
In Arizona it was a nine-hour course over 3 evening sessions of 3-hours, then qualify at the range.
All states are different; but I don’t mind the course requirement. The Arizona and Nevada courses were excellent and good refreshers.
Good shooting!
In the recent past everyone would have known about firearm safety because their daddies would have taught them when they were young’uns...Stevie666
How much of that $50 fee goes to the government?
I see nothing in the second amendment about licenses, fees or “training”.
How about English comprehension test for voting?
Another bed-wetting lib checks in.
You're right. My dad started teaching me about fire arm safety with a rifle and shot gun when I was about 6 or 7 years old. I also learned at that time that a shot gun can kick the crap out of a little boy. Pistol safety came a bit latter.
Then there was the matter of the military training with all types of guns for four solid years.
That’s not totally true. If you’re a vet, you fill out the CCW form and enclose your DD-214. No class needed.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m in no position to complain about any of the 49 state’s requirements about licensing. I live in Illinois, where it’s still a felony to think about guns.
The problem with most firearms training classes is this. The students that show up quite often are more qualified than the instructor. We walk through a legal formality and try not to embarrass the instructor too much and go our way.
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