Anyone can have a DL, any criminal can have a DL but to get a GWL you must do the leg work, pass background checks so many of us feel safer knowing you have gone through those checks and balances it has to offer no matter how easy that is. It gives some of us responsible gun owners a little more piece of mind. I prefer to sell only to holders of GWL, I feel I have some responsibility to keep guns out of the hands of those who should not have them or the hands of those who are just buying them to sell to less responsible others.