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amber wrote:The tests are required in the law. People should have to pass the tests without help (cheating).

I have never seen anything in the law that says that you have to load your own mags or rack the slide on the weapon during the test to pass the test. The only part that I remember the law saying is that you have to pass with at least a 75%. So to me, if it is not writen in the law then how is it "cheating"?

AEA wrote:I never meant to say that she shouldn't have the same rights as anyone else.....I only meant to highlight that I thought new persons (and especially those at a renewal) should have some familiarity with handguns. Her problem was not physical. It was lack of knowledge and practice.

I miss understood what you wrote. If that was the problem, lack of training with that weapon, then I am right with you.

gregthehand wrote:My only hope is that some of these people are only using a semi-auto so they can get the option to carry one if they want. As in they carry a 5 shot revolver or something normally.

AEA wrote:
Also, in my recent renewal there was a lady back for her renewal and she could not even load her .380 mags or pull the slide back to chamber the first round!

I think that we need to look at another side of this. Just because she could not load the mags or pull the slide back, does that mean that she can not have the gun to protect herself? If she needed the weapon for self defence, chances are that it is already loaded and ready to fire. Why is it so wrong that someone else help her to make the weapon ready? To me a lady like that is in more need of a CHL then someone who can do it all on their own.
Just something to think about.