I don’t want to ‘Out’ a friend whom i have known socially for the last 3 years. I met him around 10 times in these years and he is a warm & friendly fellow. His family has owned guns and he & his sons have certification in sniping. My friend is appalled by safari hunting as he believes that killing of an animal comes with a responsibility of consuming it. In his words, you kill to eat, not for entertainment.
His commonsense proposal for gun reform included these 2 major ideas:
- Semiautomatic weapons have to be stored in secure facilities preferably outside residences.
- People have free access to utilize the semiautomatic in the gun range. Transport to hunting will be in secure case and has to be returned to gun range in specified time
- Gun ranges will track all semis and share information through a database if people want to deposit in other gun storage facilities
- If semi automatic has to be stored in residence, it has to be be in a very secure locker. Liability of misuse or misplaced semiautomatic is on the owner
- Creation of these gun ranges or expanding current ones will create new jobs
- Delinking NRA political activities and other activities
- NRA’s political action is shameful & well known to everyone
- Outside of their political action, NRA does a lot of important gun training & safety events that gets unnoticed
- Delinking is essential as many NRA members put up with the political action because they feel demonized by gun control lobbyists
I am not well aware of all aspects of gun controls. I wanted to present a gun owner’s take such as i remember it.