Montana's "Vermont with training" bill is in progress...

[Jim March]

http://www.kulr8.com/news/state/118690379.html

Note the fourth paragraph:

The new proposal would let people carry concealed guns into those areas as long as they have taken a class from a certified trainer or state agency.

Compare with what I wrote in 1999:

http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22522

 

[Alaska444]

Right on Jim. Great proposal. Glad to see Montana is going back to the basics of personal self defense as a constitutional right. Maybe someone over there read your thread all those years ago. I think anyone that wishes to carry should have the training given the complexity of self defense laws. It is indeed a minimal requirement that just make sense and should not impede the RKBA.

 

[Jim March]

I'm not trying to argue against what is now being called Constitutional Carry. I studied the effects in Alaska once we had some data post-conversion and it looks good.

The issue is, if full-on CC won't fly, this is a decent fallback alternative.