I'm all for allowing concealed carry without a license. However, I would also like an alternate system where one could become licensed. There are two reasons: (1) easier to obtain reciprocity when traveling to other states and (2) avoids some of the danger of the federal Gun Free School Zone Act (because of the background check).
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Maine tries permitless CCW
- Thread starter stagpanther
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I'm all for allowing concealed carry without a license. However, I would also like an alternate system where one could become licensed. There are two reasons: (1) easier to obtain reciprocity when traveling to other states and (2) avoids some of the danger of the federal Gun Free School Zone Act (because of the background check).
According to the NRA-ILA, the proposed bill keeps Maine's current licensing system, just like Arizona and Alaska and Kansas kept their licensing schemes when they passed constitutional carry.
On the one hand, there are some governmental controls over Constitutional Rights. You have to have a business license to run a newspaper or tv station, although not a website... yet.
Newspapers and TV stations are businesses for other reasons, and if they need FCC licenses, that's not because they communicate to a mass audience, but because of how they communicate.
Concealed carry or open carry by permit is a necessary step in the incremental trend towards Constitutional carry. As each step is implemented, proven, and publicly accepted, it readies the public for the next step towards Constitutional carry. Aside from Vermont, NOBODY was even talking about permitless carry just a few years ago.
We lost our 2nd Amendment rights in tiny increments over decades. They are actually coming back much faster than we lost them. Be patient. If your state is not ready yet, it will be when the majority in your state have gotten used to carry by permit.
We lost our 2nd Amendment rights in tiny increments over decades. They are actually coming back much faster than we lost them. Be patient. If your state is not ready yet, it will be when the majority in your state have gotten used to carry by permit.
I was born and raised in Vermont. Still waiting for blood in the streets. On the issue of training all I will say is that since 4 March 1791 Vermonters somehow figured it out how to get trained. If they said you had to pay a fee to take a formal class, pay to be finger printed and pay for a permit to vote, or pray would that be OK? If not, why not?
some people like to overlook the fact that a firearm is a RIGHT. I am not sure why, but it seems that a lot of folks, surprisingly, even a lot of folks here on TFL, see it as a privilege that we must exercise our competency to attain. I wish it wasn't like that, I don't see them wanting fluency tests for their first amendment rights, but for some reason the second one is "special" because someone "could" get hurt. it's this thinking that allows the 2nd A to get tinkered with by everyone in office who think the dumb "people" can't be trusted with their American born so-called "rights".
is it a "right" or a "privilege"?
if you feel it's a "right", then why is ANY government intervention okay? if you feel it's a privilege, than I can only assume your okay with the 2ndA being disemboweled.
let me add that driving a car is a privilege, and every state I know of, has qualification and testing to use that privilege, but it doesn't stop nearly 50,000 people dying in crashes every year. life can be dangerous, and I wouldn't want to see what a 100% safe country would look like.
is it a "right" or a "privilege"?
if you feel it's a "right", then why is ANY government intervention okay? if you feel it's a privilege, than I can only assume your okay with the 2ndA being disemboweled.
let me add that driving a car is a privilege, and every state I know of, has qualification and testing to use that privilege, but it doesn't stop nearly 50,000 people dying in crashes every year. life can be dangerous, and I wouldn't want to see what a 100% safe country would look like.
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