If you want to buy a gun or ammo...
1. Every two years you head down to you local police department and take the "Federal Ammunition & Gun Safety" (don't say it) test. It's a 20 question test that is easily available on-line, as are the answers. But you have to take the test with no notes.
2. Assuming you pass the test (if you don't know how to handle a loaded weapon we don't offer OJT) you get a little green gun sticker to put on your government issued photo ID.
3. Next time you want to buy ammo or a gun, the cashier has to verify you have the sticker.
The reason you have to go to the police station for the test is pretty simple, they're going to run a background check on you for outstanding warrants. If you're dumb enough to walk into the police station knowing you have a warrant out for your arrest, you're too stupid to be trusted with a gun or ammo. If you have a warrant out but don't know it....well consider it a public service announcement when they tell you why you are being handcuffed. If you're too dense to pass the test, you're definitely too dense to own a gun.
Now just because you pass the test and get your little green gun, that doesn't mean you can buy a gun or ammo...you still have to pass the NICS test at the dealer. One of the key difference between the NICS test and the Federal Ammunition & Guns Safety test is that if you fail the NICS there's nobody there to arrest you, if you should need arresting. If you come up hot for a warrant while you're in the police station taking the Federal test, you're getting arrested. Another key difference is that you need the green gun in order buy ammunition.
Obviously folks can buy guns and ammo on the street...if the supplier can pass the tests. But if they're caught with either a gun or ammo by the police, they better have the green gun sticker on their ID. Absent the sticker, the assumption is that you stole the gun\ammo.
1. Every two years you head down to you local police department and take the "Federal Ammunition & Gun Safety" (don't say it) test. It's a 20 question test that is easily available on-line, as are the answers. But you have to take the test with no notes.
2. Assuming you pass the test (if you don't know how to handle a loaded weapon we don't offer OJT) you get a little green gun sticker to put on your government issued photo ID.
3. Next time you want to buy ammo or a gun, the cashier has to verify you have the sticker.
The reason you have to go to the police station for the test is pretty simple, they're going to run a background check on you for outstanding warrants. If you're dumb enough to walk into the police station knowing you have a warrant out for your arrest, you're too stupid to be trusted with a gun or ammo. If you have a warrant out but don't know it....well consider it a public service announcement when they tell you why you are being handcuffed. If you're too dense to pass the test, you're definitely too dense to own a gun.
Now just because you pass the test and get your little green gun, that doesn't mean you can buy a gun or ammo...you still have to pass the NICS test at the dealer. One of the key difference between the NICS test and the Federal Ammunition & Guns Safety test is that if you fail the NICS there's nobody there to arrest you, if you should need arresting. If you come up hot for a warrant while you're in the police station taking the Federal test, you're getting arrested. Another key difference is that you need the green gun in order buy ammunition.
Obviously folks can buy guns and ammo on the street...if the supplier can pass the tests. But if they're caught with either a gun or ammo by the police, they better have the green gun sticker on their ID. Absent the sticker, the assumption is that you stole the gun\ammo.
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