that isn't the problem. it's not keeping guns away from crazies, loons, and criminals.
it's harder to get a drivers license in some places than a gun license.
but we can pretend it's about mental institutions.
While I know that a DL is not a right but a privilege it is interesting that we require anyone wanting a DL to prove competency before allowing them to drive a 2 ton vehicle on public roads.
But no competency is required to carry around a lethal weapon capable of killing someone from a distance.
That alone says that there is something wrong with not enforcing reasonable competency testing for everyone who wants to carry a gun.
But the NRA screeches that this amounts to "grabbing our guns" which is total BS. It just means you can't walk around in public without proving that you know when NOT to pull the trigger.
Most states require testing and training if you want to carry your gun concealed, i.e. in public. The problem is grabbers use this as a way to deny firearms to be people, "because we say say so" just like in NYC.
Plus a vehicle moving at 30 to 65 miles per hour is always an inherent risk, the energy potential for damage is there during normal operations. Guns on the other hand when just carried do not, there has to be an action done on them for them to be dangerous.
The problem is that many states DON'T have any such testing and training and the NRA obstructs any and all attempts to mandate such programs.
Actual only 5 states or so are constitutional carry, the rest are shall issue, and require permits, training and certification.
and transferring from individual to individual?
buying at gun shows?
and flooding the rest of us s with guns from unregulated places?
Dealers at gun shows have to do background checks just as if you were burying the weapon in their stores. ATF has agents at all gun shows to ensure that happens.