We need better than reciprocity

[Zundfolge]

All this talk about relocating has me thinking that instead of just CHL reciprocity, we need transferability.

When we moved here from Kansas, we took our drivers licenses down to the DMV and they issued us CO DLs, no muss, no fuss, no test, no waiting. In the few weeks from the time we moved to the time we got our new CO licenses our old KS ones were still perfectly legal for us to drive on.

But if you move from one state to another, the instant you move your old CHL is no longer any good and you can't get a new one for 60-90 days (and often have to retake the CCW class in the new state).

So you're effectively disarming law abiding new residents during the time they're the most vulnerable (they're driving cars with out of state plates, which attracts criminals and you don't know where the bad parts of town are ... for chrissake we lived our first 3 months here in an apartment at South Circle and Monterrey).

If I move to someplace else, I should be able to walk into the local Sheriff's office with my El Paso County Colorado CHL and hand it to the lady behind the counter and she'll give me a shiny new CHL for wherever I've moved to, just like the DMV will do with my drivers license.

[Gman]

I still remember having to take a basic driver's licensing and eye test, but I may be mis-remembering the mid-1990s.

[Bailey Guns]

Rather than having new laws that say we can do this or we can't do that, I propose we just change the text of the 2A to:

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. And you can carry your gun anywhere you damn well please as long as you're responsible and law-abiding. And one other thing...fuck Barack Obama.

[Gman]

And one other thing...fuck Barack Obama.

No, thank you. You can if you want to.

[Bailey Guns]

I was thinking more along the lines of how Bert likes to describe it. You know...drills, cactus, ebola, etc...

[KestrelBike]

If I moved between states that had reciprocity, I think I'd just carry until my new chl arrived.

[cstone]

And ultimately the whole licensing process is for the government to give you permission to put a jacket on over your firearm.

Legislators create laws. Laws create criminals; ergo Less government would decrease the number of criminals and fewer criminals would likely lower the crime rate. Added benefit, less government should lower the tax burden on those citizens and corporations that pay taxes. Win Win!

[cstone]

I am an outcast. A wanderer in the wilderness, far far away from the upwardly mobile climbers I once worked with.

[Irving]

You know, the longer I know you the more it makes me wonder how you still have a job.

Do the people you work for know you are this sensible? Surely not.

He's his departments Ron Swanson.

[cstone]

Wood working and meat eating are much more productive than government work.