I have no issue with a card to carry showing you are legal and not a certified nut case although I don't see any way to tell if one is really a certified nut case. Doubt there will ever be a way, only the ones already caught and put in the rubber room are a sure thing. Everyone else just hasn't been caught yet.
The card should be cheap and fast to get. It doesn't take long to do a back ground check (I do them everyday) and it shouldn't be a money maker for the state and the feds.
I totally disagree with mandatory training or even a class to get the permit. Just like the nut cases, who's to say what a certified instructor should look like. Most I've encountered had to deflate their heads to get through a door and talked down to anybody that wasn't in the advanced class.
Not good for young new shooters and especially woman. Basic safety training of course should be available to those who desire or feel the need for it.
Don't know how one would show proof of regular training or practice or regular competition for that matter.
Most gun shops are class acts with good people but their thing is gun knowledge, not necessarily shooting and a few should be selling sewing machines not firearms. I remember one gun shop guy telling me not to even think about night sights on a Kahr, like this was gospel.
Turns out that was his personal opinion and for small guns I actually semi agree but still that's his opinion and really should only be shared as such.
One of the things I have against classes, they are teaching their style or method which seems to always be changing to the latest bestest method.
Again not a bad thing. Remember the old cup and saucer grip. That needed revamping for sure.
Of course in a perfect world they would do away with all the anti gun laws, buy em by mail with no FFL like the old days, no permits, course folks always tell me I was born a 100 years too late, maybe they's right.
In Memory of Paul "Dietrich" Stines.
Dad: Say something nice to your cousin Shirley
Dietrich: For a fat girl you sure don't sweat much.
Cue sound of Head slap.
RIP Muggsy & TMan
"If you are a warrior legally authorized to carry a weapon and you step outside without that weapon, then you become a sheep, pretending that JOCKO will not come today."