Nevada law requires people to show proficiency in gun use before the state will issue a permit to carry a concealed weapon.  Ironically, you can carry one openly at your side with no such test.  Utah citizens are angry because now Nevada is not recognizing Utah’s “CCW” because they do not require a proficiency test.

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Many argue that getting a license to carry a weapon should be like getting a license to drive.  Okay, that makes sense.  But why is it that I can carry a gun in a holster on my side with no test, but if I want to hide it, I must get a license, and pass a proficiency test?

Then the question becomes, why are we going to require Utah to have the same asinine law requiring a proficiency test for a ccw, when we don’t require such a test for open carrying.

Such quandaries are typical in government.  Things are not usually done for practical reasons with government, they are done for political reasons.  Let me give you a fine example.

The federal government does not need the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission at the same time.  They should be combined.  This is cited as one of the problems that could be fixed to prevent situations like we are in now.  Why won’t congressman of both parties do anything about this?  Well, it’s political.