Don't let yesterday use up too much of today - Will RogersDISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed in my posts are my own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, views, or official policies of Michigan Gun Owners.
Are they doing this because they may do away with licensing all together in the future? Collect more money while they can and them tell us we don't need a license to carry.
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Personally, I think it is the opposite…I think this bill is intended to appease the Constitutional Carry folks so they quit pushing for doing away with the CPL process altogether. If so, they are banking on the "I've got mine" mentality since any "I've got mine" folks will never have to apply for another CPL again (unless they repeal this later).
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today - Will RogersDISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed in my posts are my own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, views, or official policies of Michigan Gun Owners.
I would agree. Even with a CPL 95% of my purchases that have been through an FFL have been run through the background check. The side benefit of have a CPL is that I don't have to run to the Sheriff's Dept. in order to purchase a pistol. Of course that has led to several impulse purchases.
The easy solution is to do what Indiana did - which is to make the lifetime license separate and then the feds just won't recognize it. I assume this is what is going to happen. The law doesn't provision for repeated background checks for the lifetime license - if you want that, get the regular license.
This doesn't seem to address the problem with expiring/forfeiting training certificates and still requires gun owners to put their fingerprints into AFIS, forever, like criminals. There is also the tax involved. I can't think of another civil right that requires a $165 price tag.
I don't see this appeasing Constitutional Carry folk.
Last edited by luckless; 01-22-2018 at 05:58 AM.
I believe the right to keep and bear arms is a constitutional right, not a civil right. The former comes from one of our founding documents, while the latter come from the various bills passed into law by Congress (e.g., ADA passed in 1990, FHA passed in 1968, Civil Rights Act passed in 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, etc.)