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[robkelk]

The change I would actually make would be something would look remarkably like Western Europe, with some adaptations for the fact that we have significantly more bears and wolves and cougars and rattlers out here.

1) Take away everyone's handguns.  Allow them to be kept at a gun club or museum or with a special license.  Let police keep them during the transition.
2) Same thing about the assault rifles, and anything more fun like an SMG.  Maybe also require them to part of a militia, like you suggest.
3) Hunting rifles and shotguns are fine at home if stored properly!  You can't hide them nearly as easily, and they don't usually cause mass death. They don't even cause so many suicides, so much harder to point a rifle at your head and pull the trigger -- maybe enough time to reconsider?  But they're useful for farming and hunting and ranching.
4) All the guns get tracked by the government, don't care if it's states or federal.  If you have a gun, law enforcement agents can ask to enter your property to see if you have it stored safely (also no fucking around to hunt for other crimes while you're there please).  Fines for unlicensed or unsafely stored guns.
5) Finally, once all of this is in place, make police put the guns in the back of their car, and request permission to unlock the gun locker.  Police should not be afraid that anyone that approaches them could shoot them.  Our police deserve to not be at risk all of the time.
6) Extra licensing for people who want to tinker with guns, or do exotic things like Mythbusting.  Make it at least as hard to get as fireworks licenses or fucking cosmetology licenses.  In Valen's name, why do people need six months of training to hold scissors but guns are fine for everyone?
7) If Mexico finds a firearm from America used in a crime, and we don't have a sale recorded, fine the last owner.  Or crime committed anywhere.  We do this for cars, this should not be hard.  Stop the flow of immigrants by making Mexico less shitty.

Yes, there's issues with the proposal.  I know people use ARs customized for hunting.  I know there are environmental issues with hunting (mainly the predators, please kill more deer: we have tons of 'em).

Hmmmmm... Maybe we should adopt points 1 and 7 here in Canada. That would give us the full set.