A test to get a CCW?I got my CPL a couple weeks ago, took the test a few months back. I found the 50 question T or F test to be ridiculously easy. It just seems to me that the testing would be a bit more difficult. The 8 hour class was great. Videos, power point slides and many real life examples and then of course shooting 30 rounds at a target. Does anyone else feel the same way?
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The SC test & training are easy as well. But, my comment is not about how easy a test/qualification is.
My question is: "Why should we have to test at all?"
I used to think like many here- but thanks to a bunch of other folks on this and other forums, I now believe the only requirement should be your US Citizenry.
IMHO; If you're an American citizen and you are allowed to associate with others freely out in public, you should be able to carry anything you can physically tote around on your person you wish to carry in order to protect yourself. Heck, I'm for allowing American citizens to mount a 50cal machine gun in the back of their pick up trucks or carry an rpg in their trunk if they choose now.
The combined size of the American citizenry that carries a firearm for protection now would make up one of the largest armed militias on the planet. If handguns & personal rifles & shotguns have helped keep enemy nations from invading us up til now, just think of the message it would send to would be evil doers (foreign & domestic), if instead of just a "gun behind every tree", our enemies would be worried about "a 50cal in every truck" and "an RPG in every trunk".
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I understand what you guys are saying. I have no problem with people carrying guns I wish I would have got my CPL sooner. I just see some people in my class who have never even picked up a gun or fired one taking a class to be certified to conceal it. it seems like you would become familiar with a gun first and then once familiar using it you would take that class. one girl was trying to load bullets in the cylinder of the revolver with the barrel pointed towards her. one guy had his semi auto 45 jam and instead of pointing it at the ground and working the slide to clear the jam he leaves the barrel pointed as if still firing and turns to the instructor moving the pointed barrel in front of his classmates and then asks what should I do. I definitely do not claim to be an expert. just makes sense to familiarize yourself with your gun first I guess.
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I understand what you guys are saying. I have no problem with people carrying guns I wish I would have got my CPL sooner. I just see some people in my class who have never even picked up a gun or fired one taking a class to be certified to conceal it. it seems like you would become familiar with a gun first and then once familiar using it you would take that class. one girl was trying to load bullets in the cylinder of the revolver with the barrel pointed towards her. one guy had his semi auto 45 jam and instead of pointing it at the ground and working the slide to clear the jam he leaves the barrel pointed as if still firing and turns to the instructor moving the pointed barrel in front of his classmates and then asks what should I do. I definitely do not claim to be an expert. just makes sense to familiarize yourself with your gun first I guess.
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I do not disagree with the right to carry a gun either concealed or open but either way as you say is makes sense to become familiar with it before you do. We cannot legislate stupidity away and the CPL/CCW laws are an attempt to do that. I don't have the answers but I do know there are many people walking around with a gun that have no business with one.
and that is a price we must be willing to live with if we are to remain a free society.
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