GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

[F.U.]

I now think it should be made much more difficult for anyone to purchase an assault weapon, ALONG WITH enhancing efforts to keep any guns out of the wrong hands + increasing the commitment/funding to enforce gun laws. But, I don't want to see everybody's guns taken away or anything like that (and it doesn't matter to me what the gun looks like; restrictions should be based on functionality).

I don't see a good way of making it more difficult for people to purchase a modern sporting rifle, that would have any effect on a mass shooters plans. I mean if people will take the time to go through schooling just so they can learn how to fly a plane and use it to do evil, why wont they take the time to jump through the hoops to get a firearm? All I see it doing is making it harder for the average Joe to purchase the firearm.
What is your proposal to accomplish this ?

Well, I don't consider them "sporting" rifles. I consider them more military, by design.

But, one idea that crossed my mind is too simply apply the same requirements for purchasing fully-automatics to buying semi-automatics (with some enhancements to the current requirements).

Something like this, for example:

- Pay $2,000
- Undergo an in-depth background check (if you've been on a no-fly or watchlist in the last 5 years, automatic denial)
- Fill out a lengthy application to register your gun with the federal government
- Undergo basic psych eval
- Submit photographs and fingerprints
- Provide a certificate of safety course completion
- Have two personal references and the chief local law enforcement official sign the application
- Wait 3 months
- Renew some of the steps above every two or three years...

So basically ban them. Because we both know the average Joe cant afford that.