Observations on the nature of the debate on gun control.

[sir pball]

86. Sigh, I'll bite. I do offer give-and-take.

I actually personally support nationwide FOIDs (shall-issue after completion of a safety course, something the NRA used to do quite well until they were coopted by the RWNJs) and mandatory FFL transfers, recorded on a 4473 and filed away in the bound book. The former provides a quick and easy check as to whether a person own firearms (if one has a CCW they can't object, it's already a de facto FOID), and the latter gives every firearm an unbroken chain of custody to the last legal owner. Those two measures alone would make a not-insignificant dent in gun crime. I'm fine with 10-round magazine limits too, much to the chagrin of pro-gunners...when I carried I had 9; if you're going to be skilled enough with the iron to fight with it, you should be quick in the reload, too. You're gonna run out at some point..

Beyond that, I can see reasonable theft reporting requirements, e.g. within a timeframe of the discovery of the loss, not any of this "within x time of the actual theft" - it's been openly espoused on here as a means to inconvenience gun owners, "if you want to spend more than 24 hours away from home you shouldn't own guns." Ditto safe storage; I'm not sure exactly what I'd support as a legal requirement but I'm 100% for it (all my weapons are currently in safes, locked in a storage unit in a state where they're all legal).

Mental health issues are a stickier wicket; I favor expanding California's 5150 involuntary hold system nationwide. Anybody who's unstable should be evaluated regardless; combined with an FOID system it would be trivial to determine if somebody who shouldn't have firearms does.

From you? Drop the silly AWB nonsense, it's both ineffective and counterproductive - frankly if it hadn't come up again last year we might have had UBCs by now. Nationwide CCW with some extra training on top of the FOID, since despite protestations from both sides it has no effect on crime rates either way, and maybe reopening the NFA registry. That's it.

If any of the above terms are unknown to you, I respectfully suggest you Google them - they're all specific firearms law terms and concepts that any advocate on either side should be knowledgeable about.