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This is really a gun control bill. The only positive about it, is you don't have to get a permit to purchase anymore. The bad is that people who don't have CPL's lose the ability to carry within 1000' of a school.
So think about it. The gun grabbers give up us having to get a permit to purchase ( and thus, no background check) on PRIVATE sales. Dealer sales will switch to the NICS system. In return, they get at least a 2000' diameter gun free zone around every school (except CPL holders). When you get towns that have multiple schools, it could nearly eliminate non CPL carry in that town. We're still stuck with registration, AND, it authorizes us to be charged $1, instead of what is now free. And then there's the whole thing about the CPL expiration date...which I still don't know what they're trying to do there......
ETA, if it was a bill that eliminated all permit to purchase, registration, safety inspections, and who knows what else, and handguns were to be treated the same as longuns for purchase, sales, possession purposes, then I'd be all for it.