02-22-2018, 01:59 PM
(02-22-2018, 01:54 PM)Benton Wrote: Pretty much my stance. Expand background checks (and nobody gets one without a check), mandatory waiting periods. And I've been advocating the bold for a while.
The problem is that there needs to be a but more rigor on those. You can take a hunter safety course in Virginia and never handle a firearm, then turn around and get a concealed firearms permit. You can also take an online course on firearm safety and use that certificate to get one. You can quite literally be licensed to carry a loaded firearm in most places in Virginia, concealed, without ever having touched a gun before in your life.
This is why I have a problem with reciprocity for those permits. One state may have very strict guidelines and another may be like Virginia.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
