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Shame ranges aren't more available for people to develop and maintain proficiency, given how critical firearms were (and still are) to personal and national security. I expect if more people cared about shooting and racing we'd have ranges and tracks opening up, instead of closing down.

I’m confused and terribly upset to be upset

Great news. Best of luck with the merging.....the newest ride. Still got cars. No more flying, and boats are gone.....but here I is!

Not to diminish what you are saying and I do agree with your statement of many people needing proper training, but so far most of the gun owners that I know who have not gotten their CCW up to this point the reasoning wasn't only about the requirement to take a training class. Their reason for not getting the CCW was that they also didn't want to get fingerprinted and have their info in a state database or to deal with the hassle of all the steps and expenses required. In their minds it is an undue burden. The other things you need to think of for the average person that is on the fence about first time concealed carry is the cost and hassle involved in the process. $67 to apply, $10 for fingerprints, cost for your 2x2 passport photos ($17 from CVS) Scheduling and taking said training classes from around $75 or more. The fact that most places to apply and get your actual card from the state are Mon-Fri daytime only, and that the average working person would need to take off time from work to complete the process. The cash outlay doesn't seem like a huge amount of money for people that already have 5-10-20 guns but a first time owner will take that $170ish dollars for a CCW into account when they are trying to justify the process and time put into getting the CCW vs buying the equivalent amount of ammo. I know that sounds awfully conspiracy theorist of me but for some people those items are a legit concern that was holding them back. Me personally, I have had my CCW for the entire 14 years so far that I have lived in OH and will continue to keep it current so I can carry in other states so please don't think I am talking about myself in the third person Just wanted to throw this out there because like anything in life the complexity of this topic is much more in depth than just getting hung up on a single portion of it.

Before I give what I expect will be an unpopular opinion let me give my 2A creds. I have been active for years getting this crap fixed. Organizing and attending open carry events at parks that had illegal no gun signs. Spending my own money helping sue Cleveland Hts, Cleveland and Oberlin for their illegal laws. And getting all the illegal gun laws off the books in the town I live in. In other words I have been in this fight getting shit done for years instead of just bitching about it on the internet. You are welcome. Removing the requirement for training is a really stupid fucking idea. When I took my CCW class there were two people there that clearly had never had much to with guns before. I don't know if the class got them far enough along or not but it certainly helped. Now these kinds of people will have no training and will be wandering around having accidental discharges that may kill someone you love. You have to go through a ton of training to drive a car. 8 hours of gun training is not a burden. All rights have limits and conditions and as long as they are reasonable conditions I have no problem with them. Proper safe gun training is not a hoop and not a burden.

The Free Supercharging is actually an RPO code (SF1) so thankfully that stuck. The P.O. (who was big in the GM 3800 scene as Bucky realized yesterday:lol:) is a huge tech nut who said that YES, if an owner sells/trades their car back to Tesla, some features are disabled. I sat in his driveway in Chicago before I drove it home, FaceTimed my wife and we were able to transfer the Model S over to my wife through Tesla. Took the 19” snow tires off and installed lowering links with the 21”s. This is a turrible pic late yesterday but it looks siiiiiick in person. “Ludicrous” and “Ludicrous+” are available, but honestly haven’t done anything hard except for some rolling launches and highway pulls.