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We already have the legal mechanism necessary to enact mandatory training.
The militia is "the whole of the people". Congress is empowered under Article I Section 8 parts 15 and 16 to "prescribe discipline" (read: "training standards") for the militia. They don't have the power to mandate training only to those people who choose to keep and bear arms, but they do have the power to mandate training for everyone.
So, let's have a high school, senior-year class on safe handling. More importantly, let's have a class on the laws regulating the use of force, so everyone is aware of when we can use force against another, and when force may be used against us.
Careful there buddy, you're getting dangerously close to preventing uneducated morons from buying semi-auto rifles to keep in their pickup trucks.
Semi-automatic just means you don't need to reload between every shot, it doesn't mean burst fire (that's still considered automatic)
But what about fully semi automatic, huh?
Thank you for explaining to this former infantryman how military rifles work. 😂
What's wrong with semi-automatic then?
Nothing. I just have a problem with uneducated morons owning them.