Absolutely no, except #4... if it came with this caveat:
For #4:
Make it a mandatory class your freshman year of high school. You must have Firearms Safety to graduate from high school.
That way everyone from here on out has the training and can go buy their first gun on their 18th birthday.
I agree here. While I'm sure it would stir up a **** storm with parents - I believe that in every public school (private schools can do whatever else they want), a firearms safety course should be mandatory. It should consist of more than the little "911 Safety First" booklets elementary school kids get to take home and color in with crayons, essentially telling people to do nothing but find an adult who's never had much more experience than they have on handling materials. Put every teenager into a 5 day safety course, where they learn safety of all types of guns and how to generally secure different kinds of guns. Teach them hands on, have them read safety materials and answer a quiz, then have them perform demonstrations of gun safety on the final day to pass. You should also issue a permission slip to parents to be signed authorizing the kid to go on a field trip to a range and learn how to be proficient in the use of a firearm. (parents welcomed to attend)
My position on regulations:
*No to licensing
*Optional to registration
*Optional to training (mandatory training with large caliber & fully automatic guns)
*Optional to insurance (discount with training, requiring registration)
*No to limits on quantity of guns and ammo
*Impartial to background checks
*Waiting period should only take as long as the background check
*No to Open Carry Permits
*No to Concealed Carry Permits
*Allow large caliber and fully automatic weapons
I would require privatized logs of all gun sales from dealers containing the guns make & model number, who it went to & proof of address. This information should not be disclosed freely, a court must issue a warrant to disclose the information. Upon the dissolution of a gun dealership company these records should be turned over to a legally protected agreement with an assigned agent.
My ideas and beliefs on the subject wouldn't be considered ideal gun laws as much as it would be considered complete gun reform. Most registrations would be masked from government agencies, public view and law enforcement, restricted to the mandates of court orders. I would even go as far as saying registrations and permits should be privatized to an IDC (Identification Code) assigned to people who have passed a background check and that IDC should not bear the persons name, rather the persons name should be in a database protected by the private organization. Extreme privacy and anonymity unless a crime is in the works - and even then anonymity and privacy from public, including full indemnification to everyone in the database from any legal action or consequences that are not being pursued within the mandate.
In such cases, RAS (Reasonable Articulable Suspicion) should be handled as a document application form filled out by a judge, which should also require full disclosure of the purpose of extracting this information, the intention of its use - and it should require a seal of approval from a certified firearms expert consultant to the court and public.
The idea is simple. More liberty, more privacy, more anonymity. Provide a practical approach for a court and law enforcement agency to do their job when a legal issue occurs that does not include absolute invasion of privacy and information free-for-alls. Information and databases should not be used as an all-you-can-eat buffet feeding the belly of RAS.
To enhance gun safety one regulation I wouldn't mind seeing is a law requiring a dealer to provide a brochure on gun safety with the purchase of every firearm. Thats non-intrusive, cheap and practical in my opinion.
In regards to criminals owning guns, if someone has committed a federal offense of a nature that would suggest they are unfit for gun ownership then the real issue isn't the idea of them owning guns, its the idea of them being on the streets at all. Petty offenses shouldn't be considered.