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I've been meaning for a while to finally make the time to go down a local range and fire a gun for the first time - it's cheap, they lend out weapons for first-timers, and they sound pretty friendly. I just keep putting it off for dumb reasons.
Still, I feel like it would be good for me, in some respect, to at some point just... hold a rifle in my hands, aim at a target, and pull the trigger. I hope there would be some learning in that, in experiencing a gun not as a vague idea or symbol, but as a physical object in my hands. I hope there would be something demystifying in that.
Or maybe it'd just be a fun afternoon. I don't know. But it seems worth doing.
Anyway, on the laws, it's mostly just that my starting point for most regulations like this is that when in doubt, err on the side of liberty, and as far as I can tell the more restrictive post-1996 firearms regulations just haven't really had a positive impact. And insofar as there are people who have legitimate uses for firearms, and derive real enjoyment out of owning them, collecting them, using them recreationally, etc., there are no grounds for me to deny them.
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