Would be nice if Americans were subjected to a rigorous psychiatric assessment, lie detector tests, and associated background check to ascertain why they need to purchase a gun and what they intend to do with it. Then after months (maybe a couple of years) of processing, they are subject to highly inflated prices on all guns, ammunition and associated parts, in which owning a gun is a considerably expensive investment for the average American. Limit the amount of ammunition per year they are able to buy (say, 3 bullets every 90 days), then have an annually psychiatric checkup and validation exercise of why you still need a gun. Also, gun purchases can only be made with recommendations from minimum six credible people (such as doctors, lawyers, or accountants) who can vouch for your necessity to have a gun. You should also have to register with law enforcement, the FBI, psychiatric services, and community good sammartian groups (which requires 50 hours of community service per week as part of gun ownership responsibility).
So after multiple and ongoing tiresome investigations, thousands of dollars spent, and at least 18-24 months of waiting, you can have your constitutionally-protected pistol.
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