We need a new federal agency to oversee all matters involving guns

[askyagerz]

If we can't get rid of them we need a dedicated agency to interview anyone wanting a gun license. Interview their friends and loved ones. Have home visits for gun owners, maybe annually. Make sure people are properly trained and try to teach them the horrors of what a bullet can do.

Even oversee gun shows. Make all new and used firearm sales have to go through a real and present agent before transaction can be complete. If you are caught selling or buying not going through them you get an automatic felony and lose you gun license for good

It's absolutely nuts its easier to get a gun then a driver's license in this country. If they want to claim but I'm a responsible gun owner, make them prove it. Let them put their money where their mouth is. Slap a new heavy tax on any kind of tactical weapons and accessories to pay for the new agency.

I doubt we will ever get rid of them at this point. At least not anytime soon. Something like this may be our only real compromise even if Dems are in control.

[Blue_true]

1. Actually.

Giving the FBI or ATF adequate resources to set up a specialized unit to do what you propose would be adequate. That group can interface with local law enforcement to standardize and update methods and resources like a national database that is easy to access by the local people.

[askyagerz]

2. I'm talking more like a dmv

It would need to be a huge operation with local offices. I just don't see the FBI or ATF wanting anything to do with that. They've got enough to deal with the way it is. Too many guns and owners and cracks to slip through without boots on the ground everywhere.

[Blue_true]

3. Ok, I see what you envision.

Codes for such an organization would need to be uniform nationwide. I don't see the NRA letting that happen, bad for their business of facilitating murder.

[askyagerz]

4. Very true

At some point though I think they would have to budge to allow some kind of compromise. Especially if dems do take over for awhile and these shootings keep happening at this pace.