The second amendment diary – Day nine
Today I dropped off my $80 fee to attend the required firearm safety course on October 1st. The officer I met with could not have been more polite and I let it slip that I had some previous shooting experience.
“Military?” he asked. I can only assume my muscular build threw him off. An understandable mistake! No, no, just some skeet shooting with a double-barrel shotgun and some rifle time. He said that if I was willing to stick around after class next Saturday, he’ll fill out the required paperwork for my permit. Cool.
(Previous: Day one diary)
10 comments:
Glad to see you're following up on this. And even better, it's great to see an officer helping you out.
Any further thoughts about your choice of shotgun vs. handgun?
Based on the majority of feedback from people more knowledgable, I'm strongly leaning towards a shotgun. We'll see.
You can't go wrong with a pump-action shotgun. The bottom line is - you need a firearm that you are comfortable with and can operate safely.
My first firearm was this .45-caliber Ruger P345. I love it.
I don't know how the police chief in your town feels about issuing concealed carry permits (Class "A" LTC - "all Lawful Purposes"), but whether or not you can carry concealed should obviously carry some weight in your decision making process.
Just consider yourself lucky you don't have to jump through all the hoops required of Boston residents seeking the government's permission to defend their lives.
I keep my handgun locked up in this safe, which is secured via the detachable baseplate to my bedside table.
My kids (3-y.o.) don't even notice it's there and it's in plain view. I can access my gun in two seconds.
I have another baseplate that I plan on mounting in the back of my Jeep.
Stay safe!
The song "America the Beautiful!" comes to mind!
"Just consider yourself lucky you don't have to jump through all the hoops required of Boston residents seeking the government's permission to defend their lives."
Or even worse, you could live in a state like mine (Wisconsin) where you are denied that right entirely
joe, I wish that were the case, but I'm not talking about concelaed carry permits. I'm talking about the state granting me permission to merely possess a gun in my home.
Over $900 out of pocket to get licensed, and I still have significantly fewer "rights" than a NH resident with a driver's license and no gun permit.
This stats sucks ass (as if I had to add that).
whoa! Yeah, I'd say that totally bites. Here in Wisconsin, there are few restrictions about gun ownership. Mostly just the standard "thou shalt not have automatic weapons or sawed off shotguns" rule. And all it costs is a $10-15 (depending on the place) fee for the standard NICS background check. Once you pass that, and wait the obligatory waiting period (which is long time if you're buying a gun to protect yourself from an ex-spouse who has threatened to kill you), all it takes is signing your name a few times on various forms that the government promises to keep for a month and then throw away (yeah, like anybody believes that!)
You can own a gun and use it on your property (within reason). You just can't take it with you when you go somewhere. We don't have concealed carry rights, but technically we're allowed open carry. I say technically because, altho it's completely legal to walk around most places with a holstered sidearm, you'll almost certainly get arrested for "disturbing the peace" or "disorderly conduct" regardless of your rights.
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