Reply #125: I don't think society is even one bit safer

[MrBenchley]

if people want to indulge in a gun hobby...and as things are now, society is decidedly less safe because they do.

I think guns should be registered and gun owners licensed...with gun owners required to produce their licenses to be recorded when ammunition is purchased and subject to proficiency exams and periodic re-testing. I think gun owners ought to be required to account for their guns periodically.

I think many more restrictions should be put on gun manufacturers and sellers, including mandatory written inventories (currently not required), spot inpections and audits by BATF agents, and an end to so-called "collectors sales". I see no reason a three-day waiting period should not be required. I think the BATF should be allowed to release to the public the names of gun sellers whose guns turn up in crimes. I think neither assault weapons nor .50 caliber weapons belong on the market. Last time I looked, about 40% of Americans thought handguns should not be on the market and I could be persuaded to go along with that.

I'd like to see a Congressional investigation into gun industry practices and the gun industry's ties to white supremacist and extremist groups...and I'd like to have their "get away with murder" lawsuit exemption rescinded.