How about a Responsible Gun Owners Act? ( Or maybe Responsible Owners of Firearms Law, ROFL for short.) This law would be simple. Anyone gets to buy and own a firearm. As many as you want. When you are convicted of a violent crime, you lose that right. That's the way it is, more or less, right now. In addition, as soon as you become an irresponsible gun owner, you also lose that right, first offense two years, second for five and third for life.
How do you get to be an irresponsible gun owner? Easy. Shoot yourself in the leg while you are cleaning an empty weapon. Discharge a firearm in your apartment or your home or property and have the bullet leave your property, such as through your wall and into the baby's bedroom next door, or into the car that is driving by. Notice this is a Gun OWNERS Act, not just a gun shooters act. So if the gun you own is discharged by someone other than yourself, such as your four-year-old, you are responsible, or if your teenager takes your gun, permission or not, and intentionally or accidentally shoots someone or shoots somewhere not authorized, he and you are responsible. If you choose to leave a gun out and it is burglarized and used in a crime, you are responsible. If you had it in a safe and the safe was breached, then it isn't on you. If you are teaching a gun safety class and you shoot yourself in the foot, two years without guns. if your 9-year-old is taking a gun class and accidentally kills a classmate, the instructor, and the parent gets dinged.
Get the Idea? Also, for the first offense, if it involves an injury, that's five years the first time. If it involves a death, lifetime ban. Your guns will be safely stored and locked up for the two or five year period. After that, you get them back. third offense, bye bye forever. While you are on probation, you must take safety classes, and you can't buy, receive, possess, hold, fire, or transport firearms. Same for a lifetime ban. This idea does not affect in the least any responsible firearm owner. It eliminates violent criminals from owning, and it will filter out the irresponsible, clumsy around guns, and others that shouldn't be using them, and it applies to the police. The NRA SHOULD support this, because after all, don't they always promote gun safety? And this way, as long as you are responsible, absolutely no gun restrictions, AND you get two chances before a lifetime ban. After all, there is no such thing as an accidental firearm discharge, it stops being accidental when you put a bullet in the breach. That is an intentional act.