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Gun Control Reform Activism

sir pball

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5. Nationwide CCW, with standards, may make a good carrot to the FOID stick.

Reply to jimmy the one (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 09:55 PM

Mar 2015

I'm entirely in favor of a single national-standard FOID card that gets a call-in verification for the NICS check on firearms purchases, and checked for ammo. Of course the nutters reject that out of hand, to which I always answer "well, you have a CCW...what the hell do you think that is exactly? You ain't gettin one as a second ID, that's for sure!" They pretty much all concede at that point, which led me to thinking at least the option for national CCW might actually make mandatory FOIDs a possibility.

Of course, classroom and practical training would be a must, unlike PA where I got a CCW after $25 and an NICS check, with reasonable location restrictions, but that's just details..

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Nationwide CCW, with standards, may make a good carrot to the FOID stick. sir pball Mar 2015 #5