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I don't open carry.

I don't own or want a bumpstock.

While these things are not for me, I will never oppose them. The left opposes guns, period. Their goal is total ban, confiscation and destruction of EVERY gun in the US that is not in the hands of their precious government. They have never tried to hide it. They have never compromised (unless you call not getting everything they want, this time, a compromise).

WE as gun owners and advocates of the Second Amendment need to take a lesson from their text book. We should never oppose anything that, in any way, form or fashion, infringes on the Second Amendment.

WE have to be as obstinate, unbending and uncompromising as the left is. IF we do not they will win. If we don't all hang together, we shall surely hang separately.

The reason they will win is that they stick together. They all follow the same game plan. They do not vary from that plan. They are patient, unforgiving and ruthless. Unless we adopt the same tactics they will win.

When we debate allowing any infringements and agree to let them have any part of what they want, they have won and WE have lost. Remember: death by a thousand cuts and how do you eat an elephant, one bite at a time.

Please remember, gun control is not about guns, its about CONTROL. The left see gun control as one step toward their ultimate goal.

 

[WCCPHD]

The concealed carry class in NC teaches a student what the law is, where they can carry and the prohibitions enumerated by the statute. There is no firearm fundamentals taugh

Actually, in a study submitted in response to a legislative request in 2013, the NC Sheriff association provided an analysis of flaws in the permit process. At the time, one of the sheriffs let it drop that the processing of a $5 permit to purchase handguns cost them $75 to process. The fees for concealed carry permits are considerably higher, but the background clearance process is substantially the same.

Extrapolated across the entire state, the cost over permit revenue amounted to about $10 million in taxpayer costs over a year.

The real reason for supporting the law is likely related to the multiple patronage job positions a sheriff can hire to handle running the system.

The same thing is likely in states that do the permit processing at a state level, just less pronounced.

In NC it is not about revenue. Its about power for some and control for others. Rural sheriffs have always used the permitting system to their political advantage. Many urban sheriffs use it to make it more difficult to exercise your Second Amendment rights.