http://www.lowellsun.com/opinion/ci_26011751/firearms-restrictions-fall-shy-true-goals
Now, advanced firearms training with live fire is a good thing to promote, but it is not right to require expenditures for courses that run in the hundreds-of-dollars price range, on top of the hundred-dollar gun license, to exercise a basic human right. This is nothing but "people control," similar in effect to the old unconstitutional poll taxes that penalized and disenfranchised the poor from voting. Besides violating the "shall not be infringed" of the Second Amendment, this violates the "equal protection under the law" of the Fourteenth Amendment to our Bill of Rights.