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>not pointing the muzzle of a gun at anything you don't intend to destroy is basic gun safety. Are you required to know basic gun safety in order to obtain one

• umvi 4y ago
  No, for the same reason you don't need to have basic civility/racial sensitivity training to exercise free speech.
  • axiomsEnd 4y ago
    But you have to pass driving test before using a car...
    • tomatotomato37 4y ago
      Freedom of assisted movement isn't a constitutional right
      • bobkazamakis 4y ago
        Interesting that you would call it freedom of assisted movement -- don't you think that the arms the founding fathers had in mind weren't mass-produced in the state they are in now?
    • bluGill 4y ago
    • chipsa 4y ago
      But I don't before buying the car. Or to use the car on private land.
  • Damogran6 4y ago
    Maybe that’s a problem? Sure, it’d be easy for the conversation to devolve into ‘you can say what the government trains you to say’, but everyone knows you can’t yell ‘fire’ in a theatre.
• bitxbitxbitcoin 4y ago
  Are you required to know basic knife safety to buy a knife? Fire safety to buy a lighter? The age gate means that society at one point thought that basic gun safety would be learned before a certain age or maturity would set in or something like that. Society is what has changed.
• pc86 4y ago
  In many states, yes.