Reply #15: On your proposals...

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Then, let's make everybody follow the same rules to possess a handgun or semi-auto that we do to conceal a weapon. Be 21 years of age, complete an approved firearms safety or training course,
fill out the application form at your local sheriff's office with two forms of identification, have a firearms training certificate, give fingerprints and photos, pass the backgrund check, renew it every 4 years. Make similar hunter's safety courses required for rifles, shotguns, etc.

If we did all this, could anyone carry a concealed weapon?

In any case, I cannot support your proposal, as it eliminates anonymous firearm ownership. Any proposal that does this is a non-starter with me.

We need bullet tracing, and we need to track the sale of all guns.

See above. Anonymous firearm ownership is what gives the armed citizenry power over its government. With a database of all such citizens in the hands of the government, that power is greatly eroded. Thus it's a non-starter.

Outlaw armor piercing bullets.

Did you know that most hunting bullets will penetrate body armor?

I would probably prefer a clip with 5 or less bullets.

Why? The latest shooter, Wong, went through 98 bullets in less than a minute with 2 handguns that could hold no more than 30 rounds maximum together, and more than likely held no more than 15 together. Clearly reloading is not an impediment to mayhem.

And I would prefer that any gun that gives some teen-ager the idea that they're Rambo would not be made to the general public.

What sort of guns give that idea, in your opinion? What sort of guns do not give that idea, in your opinion?

Make it tougher to get them, like it is to get a machine gun or rocket launcher.

You mean like paying a $200 annual tax to exercise a Constitutional right?