Common sence or IQ test
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Pine Marten
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You don't need to be particularly clever to safely use a firearm, they're not complicated things. Also, IQ tests measure a very limited range of skills, if any. They mostly measure how good you are at doing IQ tests. More importantly, if you could measure intelligence and could then have regulations that differ according to an innate quality that just depends on accidents of birth, you'd be demolishing the fundamental assumption that we are all equal before the law and born with equal rights.
So that's no.
So that's no.
palmer_mike
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Maybe not an IQ test, but I could understand if a relatively straight forward multiple choice safety questionnaire was filled in at the interview stage of the initial grant....
Pine Marten
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Then it comes back to the question of a mandatory test, the successful completion of which authorises the applicant to buy and use firearms.
palmer_mike
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I guess so, I've nothing against some basic form of test (as long as it's of a basic level, so as not to be a barrier to novices)
I think an eye test, as people seem want to shoot a Muntjac or Roe with a 30-06 @ less than a 100 yards...
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Shadrach2986
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Sense!! So lets hope it's not a spelling test.
timbrayford
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IQ tests only intelligence, not basic commonsense, honesty and integrity, I rather suspect that someone as devious and manipulative as Thomas Hamilton would pass such a test but many ordinary decent country folk wouldn't.
That said I support the idea of shooting community led mandatory testing before the grant of an FAC/SGC. At our rifle club you have to pass basic safety and competent tests before becoming a full member.
atb Tim
That said I support the idea of shooting community led mandatory testing before the grant of an FAC/SGC. At our rifle club you have to pass basic safety and competent tests before becoming a full member.
atb Tim
It's not IQ we need to test, it's behaviour.
The check is the likelihood of the candidate being able to follow sensible process/best practice. The practices themselves can be learned. It's why the Police rely on record and character witness (plus interview) as a means of assessing 'suitability'.
I'm not aware of using smelling or conting as primary decision functions when pulling the trigger........
The check is the likelihood of the candidate being able to follow sensible process/best practice. The practices themselves can be learned. It's why the Police rely on record and character witness (plus interview) as a means of assessing 'suitability'.
I'm not aware of using smelling or conting as primary decision functions when pulling the trigger........
Sense is more important than intelligence.
I've come across some very intelligent idiots.
I've come across some very intelligent idiots.
We shouldn't exclude some government departments from this one,............ think you all know who I allude to.
Nope.
You'll have to name and shame..
You'll have to name and shame.
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AWWw come on, it's not difficult is it!, where do you send your F.A.C.?
bewsher500
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IQ tests just show people are good at IQ tests
AWWw come on, it's not difficult is it!, where do you send your F.A.C.?
You snookered me there..they might be reading this
timbrayford
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Such behaviour doesn't sound inappropriate to me - the range is not too long and the bullet will have adequate energy for the job.
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Monkey Spanker
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You need to pass a test to do most things these days, drive a car, etc..
I'm sure it will come. Generating such ideas on an open shooting forum might be just the catalyst that it requires!
MS
I'm sure it will come. Generating such ideas on an open shooting forum might be just the catalyst that it requires!
MS
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