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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
To carry a concealed weapon on your person, yes, you need a license and the training that goes with it.
To simply own one, or keep one in your home? No. Not where I live, anyway.
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California is a tinsy bit more anal. Im not sure what the regulations are for a concealed weapons permit, but..
For all long guns, (basically anything that's not a handgun), you have a 10 day waiting (cooling off) period. I can walk in to my local sporting goods store, provide a valid california drivers license, a fingerprint, cope up a background check fee, and come back in 10 days to take possesion of the weapon. Which BTW, has to have the breach locked in the open position with a special lock for it to be leagally transportable.
for handguns, apply all of the above with the addition of proof of attendence to a handgun safety course.
As for general firearm safety, along with the aforemetioned 4 rules, there's two others i go by.
5.) Always shoot center of mass
6.) requalify on the operation of the weapon.
Once in a blue moon, i will take my home defense shotgun, remove/lock up all the live ammo, and go through the operation of the weapon with snap caps / dummy rounds. Loading, unloading, cycling the action, breach loading, etc. I do this mainly for the bennfit of my spouse whom ill probably end up proposing to in another 5 months. If anyone ever breaks into our apartment, i want to make sure that firearm is 2nd nature and familiar.