"The exam for the Firearm Safety Certificate is about as hard as the written part of the test for a driver’s license—that is, not at all. There are fewer numbers to remember, and unless you have some strange ideas about how guns work, where to keep them, and who you’re allowed to shoot (basically no one), you’d pass the test if you walked into a gun store and took it...
The most astounding loophole in the NICS process is the default proceed: If a background check cannot be completed within 3 days, the gun dealer is authorized to complete the transaction anyway. This is how Dylann Roof, who shot up a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, qualified to buy his gun...
California has provisions (although not the budget) to confiscate the guns of people who become ineligible to possess handguns because they commit disqualifying crimes or their mental health history changes to indicate they might be a danger to themselves or others...
I’m one of the 5.7 million adult Americans who live with bipolar disorder, and who manage it like you do other chronic medical conditions like diabetes or asthma. If I lived in New Jersey, I’d have to sign a release letting the state look at my mental health records, and they’d find out that I have been hospitalized for my illness—twice, in fact, but both voluntarily and both over ten years ago...
Hatred is not a mental illness, nor is alienation. Shooting strangers is certainly an act of insanity, but the legal definition of insanity—that you can’t function in the world as other people do because your relationship to consensus reality is tenuous, or that you don’t know right from wrong—doesn’t apply to people who carefully organize an attack, plotting logistics, purchasing equipment, making plans, getting access...
How many intruders am I expecting? None. I won’t be keeping ammo in my home. The odds of my gun being used against me are greater than my gun being useful in a break-in. And this question is from the test: Is it legal in California to shoot someone for trespassing? No! Only if they’re physically threatening you. Anecdotally, that’s the question people miss the most on the FSC test. Don't go into their houses."
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