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Originally Posted by Dowly
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Danke.
I wonder how this has affected incidents in which the under-aged members of a family are able to access their parents firearms for misdemeanours?
Since the 1990s I can only find four school shootings in Massachusetts...but honestly since in more than a few cases the perpatrators of these shootings are legal gun owners the safe gun law wouldn't have prevented it.
That's where better mental health care and attention comes in, but that's a very difficult subject to sort out.
Now, coming back to these 20,000 gun laws...how many of them are individual state laws which are duplicated across states? It's one of the things that has confused me a lot about America how every difficult state has a different law regarding different things, there's very little consistency across state boundaries. Could these 20,000 laws not be streamlined down a little into a few dozen which are nationwide laws rather than individual state laws?
I mean the sort of thing that says:
1) You can't own certain types of weaponry (Surface to Air missiles, nuclear weapons, anti-tank missiles, chemical bombs, that kind of thing)
2) You must register the weapons you do own and provide evidence that you can safely care for them in a manner in which ensures that anyone who is not authorised to operate the firearm cannot access it.
3) You must purchase the firearm in question from a registered firearms dealer.
Anything else that anyone can think of?
