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No, for the same reason you don't need to have basic civility/racial sensitivity training to exercise free speech.

But you have to pass driving test before using a car...

Freedom of assisted movement isn't a constitutional right

Interesting that you would call it freedom of assisted movement -- don't you think that the arms the founding fathers had in mind weren't mass-produced in the state they are in now?

But I don't before buying the car. Or to use the car on private land.

Maybe that’s a problem? Sure, it’d be easy for the conversation to devolve into ‘you can say what the government trains you to say’, but everyone knows you can’t yell ‘fire’ in a theatre.

Are you required to know basic knife safety to buy a knife? Fire safety to buy a lighter?

The age gate means that society at one point thought that basic gun safety would be learned before a certain age or maturity would set in or something like that. Society is what has changed.

In many states, yes.