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comment by cliffelam
cliffelam  ·  4414 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My Month With a Gun: Week One

Dude, you only have to score a 70 to pass. Seven out of ten right. Free to retake the test in five days.

Nobody should fail the test. When I was 17 I took it cold and got a 96, IIRC.

-XC





thenewgreen  ·  4414 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Most of the questions have nothing to do with driving but have to do with punitive measures for wrong doing. IE failure to comply with a breathalyzer etc. At times, not exactly intuitive and definitely regionally specific. It sounds like gun laws are similarly so. Perhaps, a class and a test is a good idea?

http://www.ncdot.gov/dmv/driver/license/test/sample_test.htm...

cliffelam  ·  4414 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, the last time there was a test in the south to own guns, it was used to disarm black people. Hmmm, "racist, he explained."

More seriously, there is a serious test to get a CCW - and it is 99% about the legal implications of owning and carrying a gun and when to decide to use it. You do have to pass a very lame marksmanship test, but it's no more a test of marksmanship than the driving test is a test of driving.

-XC

_refugee_  ·  4414 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Tell that to someone who failed the driving portion the first time around. Heh.

cliffelam  ·  4414 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Lol, sorry to hear that.

In high school a friend of mine got three tickets from the drivers test guy. So no license and hundreds of dollars in fines. Bad day.

-XC