NSSF's First Shots® Learn-to-shoot Seminars Excite Miami and Sacramento Area Residents

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On Saturday, March 3, nearly 400 people residing in or near Sacramento and Miami will fill First Shots seminars co-sponsored by the National Shooting Sports Foundation® and three target-shooting facilities in each area. NSSF is the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry.

This is the second leg of the First Shots program national tour to help big-city residents learn about their local and state procedures for handgun ownership. Last November, residents of Madison, Wisc., and Chicago also packed First Shots seminars to capacity.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nssfs-first-shots-learn-to-shoot-seminars-excite-miami-and-sacramento-area-residents-139296803.html

A good program (one of many) by the NSSF to promote a safe learning environment for people to learn the basics of shooting.

I wonder how the seminar in Chicago went last November. If there was a Q & A on gun laws, the standard answer probably was "you can't do that, it's against the law".

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1. Ironically, the same is probably true in Sac.

I know in L.A., since you can't buy a gun or ammunition, since you can't open carry, since you can't concealed carry, its often a question of whether it is legal to leave your house with a gun in a locked case, go to your car, and drive to the range to shoot it. That's pretty much why I only shoot IN the house btw.

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2. But it must be

worth it to live in a crime free area.

I couldn't resist. Years ago when we live in CA, our motorhome got broke into. I called the cops and the only thing they wanted to know it there was a gun taken. He didn't give a crap about anything else.

[montanto]

5. Well, yeah.

The funny thing is, I don't really worry about the crime. I get the sarcasm. LA is not by any stretch crime free. There are murders on a daily basis, but most of them are gang/gang crimes. They rarely spill into civilian life except by accident. I know that I can defend myself in my own home. I'd just like to be able to exercise my rights comfortably, by knowing that something that I can legally own in my house I can also legally have in the trunk of my car if I stop for gas on my way to the range. When I go shooting I feel like some kind of drug runner having to look over my shoulder until I am out of city limits. I hope these movements put pressure on Ca to reform the laws so they aren't so conflicted.

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3. IIRC

I believe that the sheriff for Sac Co. Changed his own dept policy to issue CCWs on a shall issue basis or allow self defense as an affirmative reason for issuance.

Correct me of I'm wrong.

[montanto]

4. That may be.

I don't know about Sac. In L.A. it's "may issue" as in "when hell freezes over, or if you are the mayor's bodygaurd we may consider it." I just know that Cal gun laws (esp. LA) are so convoluted that it makes you wonder how badly you are breaking the law just leaving your house with a locked up and unloaded weapon. Also, that I can't count on Sac city, or Sac county laws to be anything like the laws in LA city or county. Anyway, IF Sac sheriff changed the law to "shall" issue, that movement might eventually pick up steam and spread. Shit, I work with gangsters in a gang infested part of town, and I "may not" carry a weapon anywhere, while they "may" do whatever they please.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

6. "...while they "may" do whatever they please."

I know how you feel. My state has similar laws.

One individual with whom I was discussing firearms and self-defense explained that gun-control was valid because we now consider airplanes "safe" because we don't allow weapons on them. I countered and said you certainly can bring your firearms on to a plane with you. He maintained that such a thing was impossible. I said to bring you weapon on the plane with you all you had to do was buy the plane.

He then backed up and said he was talking about commercial airline flights. I said you can probably get a loaded gun on a commercial flight if you have enough ammo and the will to be firing it on the way through the terminal and as you board. He wasn't amused.

The first rule of legislation should be to realize that criminals are not law abiding.