• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This just reinforces my firm belief that a gun safety course should be required before someone can purchase their first firearm.

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      1 year ago

      Absolutely. But a certain subset of people see that as an infringement on their rights. If it prevents injury or death, it’s not an infringement but a reinforcement.

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      1 year ago

      I’m a gunsmith and an avid competitive shooter, and I absolutely think that mandatory training with firearms should be necessary. Right now, it’s mandatory to take a hunter’s safety course before you can obtain a hunting license, which includes firearms safety. In sane states, obtaining a permit to carry a firearm loaded in public (concealed, we won’t get into the idiocy of open carry) requires similar training.

      To me, it’s no different than operating a vehicle or any other piece of equipment that has the potential to do great harm to others: You need to have training on how to use it properly and safely, the basics of the law and so on, and ultimately a level of enforced accountability in the event that you fail to follow protocols for safe handling, storage, and usage of said same.

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      Lots of people expect anti-gun people to abuse the concept through cost and time requirements. Sort of like they did with permits in may issue states. That is where opposition to requirements comes from.

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        1 year ago

        The ATF already does this with suppressors, it’s an arbitrary $200 and an almost 2 year wait to buy a simple tube that barely makes your firearm silent. Because morons that write legislation think that Hollywood mouse fart gun silencers are real.