1500 shenanigans.

[stormryder]

How about an omnibus safety course in high school? Not prerequisite to exercising any rights, however. Just useful knowledge every adult should have...

For starters syllabus could include: safe shootin', safe drivin', safe sex, consumer electronics and bodies of water, plastic bags and you, and the ins-and-outs of running with scissors.

At one time there use to be a hunter safety course offered when I was in High School(1988). Wonder what happened?

 

[spaniel]

Last time I went I was walking up the sidewalk outside and some guy in front of me adjusted his coat, unseating his .38 which clattered onto the concrete. He retrieved it with his finger on the trigger. Then inside a guy got caught with a loaded gun still on him and got into it very hotly with the police, and was escorted out. I haven't been back.

As for mandatory training to own, last time I checked you had to have driver's ed to be behind the wheel but that didn't stop some clueless nitwit from totaling my car last week. You can't point out the obvious to the oblivious.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

If I'm not mistaken last year I think at the later in the year 1500 a guy actually shot himself in the leg while unloading his gun

There have been many such shootings, including shootings with injuries at Indiana gun shows.

 

[loudpedal]

Cletii...I like it.

I believe that Kirk has memorized the entire urban dictionary.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Like most of Kirkese, the word "Cletii" is stolen, er, borrowed.

Indiana's premier gun blog: View From The Porch: Search results for cletii

 

[Okimeister]

Wicked Witch of the west...it's a wonder why she's so anti gun....

 

[DoggyDaddy]

A reporter from Channel 13 just told everyone watching that it's for disposing of your bullets.

Well that explains the "looks" I got for doing a mag dump into the barrel. Huh. Last time I take advice from the news!

 

[Hop]

I hope the cops working the check in table are wearing ballistic vests.

 

[Tamara]

I am going to change the expression I use for describing bemused, uncomprehending wonderment from "like monkeys staring at a monolith" to "like Cletii staring at a clearing barrel."

"I hate to interrupt your smoke break there, Jasper, but I need to use that sand barrel in yore sittin' bench so's I can gas up my heater."

 

[Wilson380AR]

I have always thought the gun checking by IMPD at 1500 must be one of the more dangerous assignments. So many morons

^^^ this

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

I would poop a clean brick if the NRA or somebody started putting on free classes for gun safety and orientation. It pisses me off that nobody wants to help people learn safety on a free basis...everything costs too dang much. Its silly to think that tacticool people spend a small fortune on a nice gun and cant afford the training, but maybe some free training would help.

 

[SubUrbanCamo317]

This is why EVERYONE should be required to take a firearms safety course to even purchase a firearm.

I would not support that, I would support requiring a training course of ATLEAST 16 hours for carry permits. Darwinism has to have some kind of tool to make an example of itself. JMHO

 

[Cameramonkey]

They can't/ won't even teach actual HISTORY, it now has become their version of politically correct history. Forget about what the Civil War was really about and what it was ACTUALLY started, but rather teach the students about the PC Liberturd version!!!

At one time there use to be a hunter safety course offered when I was in High School(1988). Wonder what happened?

I can tell you both what happened. The libtards took over, thats what happened. Right along side of spare the rod spoil the child, (OK, not that bad for some abusive idiots) everyone gets an award, zero tolerance, etc.

 

[jbombelli]

I would poop a clean brick if the NRA or somebody started putting on free classes for gun safety and orientation. It pisses me off that nobody wants to help people learn safety on a free basis...everything costs too dang much. Its silly to think that tacticool people spend a small fortune on a nice gun and cant afford the training, but maybe some free training would help.

GIMME SOME FREE STUFF!

Does that about sum up your post?

 

[SubUrbanCamo317]

GIMME SOME FREE STUFF!

Does that about sum up your post?

​Did you vote for Oblahblah?

 

[Okimeister]

I would not support that, I would support requiring a training course of ATLEAST 16 hours for carry permits. Darwinism has to have some kind of tool to make an example of itself. JMHO

The training courses for carry permits usually have safety integrated into them.

 

[churchmouse]

I would poop a clean brick if the NRA or somebody started putting on free classes for gun safety and orientation. It pisses me off that nobody wants to help people learn safety on a free basis...everything costs too dang much. Its silly to think that tacticool people spend a small fortune on a nice gun and cant afford the training, but maybe some free training would help.

Did you just pass on the purple or are you really serious.
Lots of training available by qualified people who make an honest dollar for the effort.

 

[Tamara]

I would support requiring a training course of ATLEAST 16 hours for carry permits.

Dick Metcalf! I didn't know you had an INGO account!

I've been meaning to ask you, how many hours of government-mandated comparative religious instruction would you require people to undergo before they were allowed to choose a house of worship?

 

[MTC]

Dick Metcalf! I didn't know you had an INGO account!

I've been meaning to ask you, how many hours of government-mandated comparative religious instruction would you require people to undergo before they were allowed to choose a house of worship?

Comrade Tamarova: Did you not heed ze directive of ze Politburo? Religion is ze opiate of ze masses. Any houses of vorship vill be allowed to remain open only insofar as zhey serve ze interests of ze State.

 

[Bushido Devil Dog]

I would poop a clean brick if the NRA or somebody started putting on free classes for gun safety and orientation. It pisses me off that nobody wants to help people learn safety on a free basis...everything costs too dang much. Its silly to think that tacticool people spend a small fortune on a nice gun and cant afford the training, but maybe some free training would help.

Did you just pass on the purple or are you really serious.
Lots of training available by qualified people who make an honest dollar for the effort.

To each their own, but I personally didn't see a need for purple in my fellow Devil Dog's post. Just out of curiosity, I jumped on the NRA website to look at prices for the NRA's Basic Pistol course. The last time I looked (several years ago) it was around $50. Now the lowest I found was $110, and Guy Relford is charging $175 for an 8-hour "this is the end the ouchy things we call bullets come from" *BASIC* pistol class., with the median price being somewhere around $125-150 among the instructors I looked at in the central Indiana area.

Having been a full-time teacher myself, I absolutely have no problem with professional instructors getting paid to teach, but to me...

The NRA's most basic class should not be so expensive that it close to the cost for a used gun, and should not be a barrier to new gun owners receiving a basic education about their new purchase.