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I would add that to carry outside the home, one should also have full FBI variety background check, pass a required gun safety/handling/proficiency course, and register your firearm. This is what I had to do to get a CCW in Idaho, one of the reddest states in the country, well, I didn't have to register my handgun, but I think probably I should have been required to if I was going to carry such that if my gun and I got separated and the police arrived, the police would immediately know what they were looking for and what threat it might cause them.
Why? Are you aware of any more gun incidents/accidents by people cc'ing their firearms in states without all that? Your neighbor, WA, requires almost none of that and there arent innocents being gunned down accidentally in the streets. I cant remember ever once reading of an incident like that out in public.
We require no training, no test. Permits come in about a week.
I do think it's interesting that the implication is that if it's not required, no one has/gets training. Cuz that is ridiculous. Many people who carry/own guns hunt, shoot for pleasure, grew up with guns, compete, voluntarily get training, any/all the above.