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38. Great! Let's make cars and guns equal.

My state gun license and registration and insurance would be good in all 50 states. I could take my firearms anywhere in the US and use them for any legal purpose with no restrictions. My car license lets me drive everything from a two cylinder economy car to a sixteen cylinder 200 + mph supercar, so my gun license should let me shoot anything from a bolt action single shot to the fastest firing fully automatic firearm. Nobody bans cars because they have cosmetic features like spoilers and racing stripes, so we can stop banning cosmetic features of firearms like pistol grips and bayonet lugs, and it would be silly to ban a car if it had over a ten gallon tank, so we can get rid of bans on magazines over ten rounds. Just like my driver's license my gun license would permit me to me own and operate as many firearms as I care to afford. If I want to upgrade to drive big rigs or motorcycles, I take the course and pass the test and I get the endorsements on my license, just like if I want to upgrade to breech loading cannon or destructive devices. And - if I don't use my car on public roads and use it on private property only, I don't need to register it, so if I only use my firearms on private property I don't need to register them, either. And since the NRA is the largest provider of firearms insurance, requiring insurance for gun owners would put more money in the NRA's pocket.

Is this really what you want?