This is a personal entry where I, Amy Nicholls, talk about my time with GRAB firearms, Guntry, handguns, tattoo licenses, different states, barriers to entry... It's thick and circuitous, but it all wraps up in a nice way so that we all know by the end that permission doesn't really have much to do with proficiency.
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[00:00:00] Hello diary listeners! Happy Tuesday! This week I am going to record a personal
[00:00:09] entry we are calling this week's diary entry with me, Permitted. And yeah, you'll
[00:00:18] know why in a little bit.
[00:00:23] Welcome to the apprenticeship diaries where Raw meets Refined. but for anybody who's new to listening, I like to think that these diary entries that are personal of mine kind of kind of lets you know who you're listening to and you know, whether or not you want to continue listening to me. Recently, I have been doing something that's pretty fun and something that I think is really good to do.
[00:02:47] is because one of the things that you have to do with that particular permit and licensure is get fingerprinted and be on a registry that can be
[00:02:57] looked up. Now the premise being that, and the reason why I said that I'm kind of already screwed in this way is that I
[00:04:20] had to be fingerprinted in order to be licensed in Rhode Island. So I am a I think it's a very even balance of things. Overall, my general perspective is now having gone through multiple forms of schooling, education, licensure, et cetera, don't be like this, use this door. Fact of the matter is, is that if people were prone to reading as a, I don't know, as a word of thumb or like a rule of thumb, and if they were the kind
[00:07:00] of person who observed something before they jumped
[00:07:03] right into it, they would not be the problem that they are. ability to affect that mind and bring them to more of a conscientious, communal sense of awareness because that's not how they're wired anyway. It isn't to say that that person is beyond changing. I think it's just hubris to think that that you might not have been aware of just you know offhand as a you know it's just something that you might not have known that might prick your interest and want you you the one that it that it covers that Maryland actually doesn't cover, which Maryland covers a lot of them too, is Delaware. Delaware is a weird, quirky state that you have to have, I don't know, What I liked about his class was it was very practical. They have a whole room where you can actually do clearing situations,
[00:12:21] and it's hands-on. It's very, time. He was phenomenal. Both classes were phenomenal. They're just different in how they kind of break them down and what they do with them. The gun tree is an actual shooting range, so you're able to use live ammunition there
[00:13:42] and things like that, whereas grab firearms is more about running simulations as far as if you got shot, what your reaction would be under that kind of pressure and scenario. So both of them have very good, I'd say, opportunities to simulate different things. Both are very thorough training environments. Gunteries just more fancy.
[00:15:01] As far as I can tell, they have a cafe in there where you can get lunch. I feel fairly confident about that. I don't know if that's false confidence. We'll see. Excuse me, I'm drinking some tea. I don't think that's false confidence, but we'll see.
[00:16:23] I've been shooting a weapon ever since I was a young person that started when I started confronting my fears. It all began with public speaking and realizing how bad my fear was with that and kind of walking into that space and just resubmitting just simply not put in these scenarios. And until you are, you really don't know, you don't have perspective for any of these things. I mean, just as we're talking about weight, he's now officially 250 pounds, so that's my house dealing... Can you hear it? Dealing with him. I mean it's just like I have a bull walking around my house all the way from up top of my house in the very, very, very top of my house. I can hear things that are happening in the basement. So I kind of like that because I know that being, in the highest point of my house is a advantageous place.
[00:21:43] They always talk about in situational kind of attacks,
[00:21:46] being on high ground.
[00:22:46] diary entries is to inform you guys and kind of let you know a little bit about what you're in for when you take on a pursuit of passion.
[00:22:51] That's why I've kind of let this span even beyond tattooing though tattooing as a prime
[00:22:58] focus because that's where I'm coming from.
[00:23:01] But even, you know, other, other spaces that you might go to want. So that, that's kind of where my view of boundaries and permissibility lies is that I like a fence. I like a wall. I like a deterrent. I like something that will kind of, you know, uh, screen who is most passionate
[00:25:25] the status of licensure in Maryland, which is essentially that there isn't one. I wanted them to be aware of that. I wanted them to ask me any questions if
[00:25:33] they had any about any of that because, you know anything about the current profession. It's just they're enforcing these rules that they don't even know why they're enforcing them products and they'll start developing products, they'll start wanting you to that there isn't anything really corralling that you have taught many people how to do what you do responsibly. In fact, it's so responsible that you have been able to avoid
[00:29:40] licensure in your state or any kind of regulation in your state because the a lot of the times it's really, it doesn't quality control so much as it does just make it something that where you have to pay to get over a certain hoop and then anybody who doesn't is on the wrong side of the regulatory board and legal system.
[00:31:00] It has nothing to do with how good they are.
[00:31:02] It just has everything to do about how much they played ball. It doesn't have a lot of recoil. It doesn't jostle you when you fire it. And it's something that you can very much so as a young person, kind of be educated with a weapon and the whole premise is if you're going to have a weapon in the house, you have to make sure that everybody is educated about it. And that's, that's how we learned.
[00:32:21] You know, it was never, it was never anything that, that we were kept from.
[00:33:26] not ready to start shooting it. He wanted to go out shooting with all the boys and he was like, oh Amy I'm not scared. I'm ready and I was like, well
[00:33:31] see dude, that's the problem. You're not scared and that's the thing with
[00:33:37] shooting guns is that you should be situational. It was very much so what can
[00:35:03] you handle are a person you those kind of things. If that is not the case, it's not justifiable. If there is any other way that you could have gotten out of it, not justifiable. So for instance, if they're carjacking you and it's as simple as just handing over your keys and walking away, that's what you need to do. You're not
[00:37:43] supposed to pull out your weapon to keep your car. Let the car people who teach gun safety and things like that. I don't know how much actual practical knowledge they have to have in order to be certified to teach gun safety and awareness, but I did actually become a member of USCCA. Or yeah USCCA is being beat up by a man, the moral thing that you would be asked to do is to run in, insert yourself, and try to defend that person who's being beat up.
[00:40:20] Especially if it's a fair entity like a woman and she decide for yourself and you're going to have to be for yourself. I like how the instructor at Gantry put it. He said, whatever you won't want that. That won't be good. And I didn't understand it at the time. I was just like, I was thinking about it
[00:43:00] just in the nicest terms in the most innocent terms,
[00:43:04] not thinking what wolf in sheep's clothing to being a student of life, to educating yourself, revisit, revisit, revisit again. You know, and so as much as I am a person who has shot weaponry since I was a very young person, for me it was important for myself to go and actually officially get permitted in these things.
[00:45:27] to take these classes I think they're they're 150 a piece $150 a piece not for the Utah the Utah was 95 the actual permit is like I think it's like $65 that
[00:45:36] you get charged on top of the class in order to do my course at gun tree if you in the few companies that I have been submitting myself to, it's been very refreshing to be in a classroom setting again. I have to admit that I thoroughly love learning. I thoroughly love being in a classroom. I think if I won the lottery that's all I do. The other thing that that has been a regular thing that I
[00:47:03] actually had to miss the other day but It's just a great way to keep yourself fresh. I know recently I had a tattoo that I thought I had planned everything and it just it really wasn't, it didn't work out the way I had
[00:48:23] wanted it to. It's not bad. I still get rave reviews from anybody who looks at it, but
[00:49:25] between tattooing. I think it's kind of funny that for a long time our tattoo machines were called tattoo guns so I think the the cross-pollination is kind
[00:49:29] of nice. But I just want to I guess wrap this up by saying that the more
[00:49:39] education that you can have in things the more that you can actually submit But if I were to... Yeah, I don't know. Like at this point I could technically teach somebody how to be a barber and I could guide somebody through that. But I haven't been a professional barber for over a decade. And before I were to do anything like that, I'd want to
[00:51:01] work as a barber for at least a sell and provide for your clients to scale the service. These are things that I am not aware of currently. So I would have to resubmit myself to those kind of things before I would ever feel comfortable
[00:52:21] putting myself in the same running as anyone else. that I might actually experiment with and see if I like. But yeah, just stuff like that, that tackle different issues that you might actually have passion for and want to be about and want to grow your particular brand of person. But in terms of what,
[00:53:43] what classifies, I guess we do? And he said, well, I think the only thing that we can do is remove your testicles. And he's like, my testicles, these are my boys, man. Like, and the doctors like why I understand that, but you know, have you had kids?
[00:55:01] He's like, yeah, I've already had my kids. And he's like, do you want more?
[00:55:04] He's like, no. And he's like, okay, well then you don't really need them.
[00:55:07] And he's like, yeah, man. But these are, I mean,
[00:56:06] I think it's time that I treat myself to something because I haven't felt this great forever. So he goes into a
[00:56:10] Suit place to get a new suit. He's like I need a new suit This is the time to have a whole new me. So he meets this very elderly man who is there to help him and
[00:56:18] The older man says what can I do for you, sir?
[00:56:20] He's like why I'd like to buy a new suit and he said well you look like like 40 44 tall
[00:57:23] If you were to wear a 34, that would be way too tight. Your balls would press against your spinal column
[00:57:26] and it would cause massive headaches.
[00:57:30] So, now that you guys hopefully have had a laugh,
[00:57:34] understand that an expert, quote unquote,
[00:57:39] can only tell you what they're an expert in.
[00:57:43] Did the man ultimately need to have his balls removed? and just realize that as much as it is permissible doesn't mean that it is morally okay. That the permit doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to safeguard you from anything. But either way, God bless, have a great week, and I love you. Thanks for listening. You can find the Apprenticeship Diaries on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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