General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Where do you personally stand on what guns, if any, to ban or allow? [View all]moriah
(8,311 posts)1) All sale and resale/transfer, public and private, of firearms must go through a local FFL. People can support their local gun store and range this way. This would drive up the price of true "black market" firearms without an extensive burden on the legal buyer/seller. It would also allow for people who offer sale without such on public websites to be shut down.
2) Waiting periods for any purchasers except CHL holders and people with paper shields (and allow reimbursement to local FFLs so they provide a free check to anyone who has a paper shield). The FFL can hold the gun and payment in escrow for private party purchasers. It would also let a father just go with his daughter to the gun store once she has her paper shield from the courts to give her his pistol, which they'd hopefully do to get ammo anyway.
3) Long gun magazine restriction to five round capacity for sale or transfer, private or public. Buy-backs of legally purchased extended capacity magazines that fit into the owner's rifles or pistols without modifications being required to make them fit. States left to regulate if any pistol that comes standard from the factory with a magazine larger than a certain amount (SWAG here, 10? I don't shoot plastic guns with double stack magazines) can be sold or legally carried.
4) I'm going to use the B-word here -- ban sale, resale, and manufacture of any kit or device to modify a firearm from factory standards to increase its ability to fire ammunition more quickly or reduce need for reloading. Police would have the right to seize any firearm so modified if found, in order to remove the modification, and confiscate the modified gun itself if found outside of a home. This would ban bump stocks, belt feed mods, and many other receiver modifications.
5) Work with states, ammunition manufacturers, and computer experts to serialize ammunition and track ammunition purchases with a 10-year deadline for implementation. At age 18, voting age, a person would be able to register to purchase ammunition, and a "will issue" policy being defined if a person could legally purchase a firearm. Point of sale tracking and ID for ammunition purchases being required, and the point of sale shall be able to contact the state database to determine if ammunition license is still valid. Ammunition degrades far faster than firearms. We have the technology to update and revoke an ammo license if a person commits a crime that makes them unable to purchase a firearm. I'd be willing to give up my issues with women being forced to hunt down marriage and divorce licenses to get ID to fly, and even showing it to vote, if we implement ammunition ID and tracing. It's a long-term solution to a long-term problem, and people might stockpile old ammo for awhile, but that means it's more likely they'll blow up their guns if they risk using it