Encouraged to take a class sure, required heck no. When are you people going to understand that if you allow them to regulate an inch, they take 100 miles. Have so much red tape, and they will use that red tape to make you jump through 1000 hoops to own a firearm. This is what most people don't seem to understand about the political game. What might seem like some common sense ruling, the government will always ABUSE that power. Heck, that should be one thing both sides agree on, considering most of the gripes of the past 2 years were about overreach.