What about liability insurance? So folks like the families of Sandy Hook can get some much needed monetary compensation. Just like cars.
Also...you can’t modify your car any way you like so We can’t let folks, according to your analogy, modify their firearms any way they wish.
I can own a car, and as long as I don't drive it in the road, don't need insurance, so you should only need insurance if you carry a gun outside the home.
In some places, you have to taje the car in for yearly inspections so you will have to drive it and have the liability insurance...
If you drive a car only on your property and park it there, you don't have to do anything. No licensing, registering, inspecting, etc. Let's do the same thing for guns. As long as you leave it in your house and use it on your property, you don't need to register it, license it or insure it. You would only need to do that if you carried it off your property. Treating guns like cars might get more support than you'd think.
Ok. The avalanche option.
How does it get from the store to your home?
Bingo. You have to have insurance, registration of some sort, license tags....
1. Delivery.
2. You leave the firearm in its original packaging until you get it home.
3. Temporary dealer registration.
I mean, come on. So many ways to make it work.
Mail order firearms.