These Stores Don't Want You to Bring Your Gun, Now

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I just don't see why a "regular" person who is not in the active military should be allowed to own an "assault, semi-automatic" weapon.

There's a big difference between a gun which shoots one bullet at a time----and semi/automatic weapons which use cartridges which fire many bullets.

That's why possession of an unlicensed rifle in NY State is a misdemeanor----and possession of an unlicensed handgun is a felony.

Please note that I'm not fanatical about TAKING AWAY A PERSON'S GUNS. I would just rather civilians not have assault, automatic or semiautomatic weapons.

Sure. I'd just like to say first that I don't support a complete gun ban, just stricter gun control. In fact, in rural areas (rural for real with woods, fields, wasteland and such, not simply small towns) they can really be necessary because of animals.

I think it'd be for the best to have strict psychological evaluation for everyone who wants to buy a gun before they can do that. Or if not for all guns, then the more dangerous ones at least. I know that some people can pretend to be perfectly sane despite not being so and they could pass it anyway, but I'm sure that there are also many not so stable people who wouldn't be able to get a gun because of it.

Also, I think it'd be better to make the rules of who gets to sell guns stricter. Maybe even make it so that a private person wouldn't be allowed to sell their own guns to other people but that they'd always have to be sold to a licensed gun store when the owner wants to get rid of them. That way it'd be easier to keep track of who has what guns, for they'd always have to be registered, too. Of course, some people would still sell theirs illegally, but the amount of the people who'd sell theirs to questionable people would be lower. I think this would also directly lessen the amounts of crimes, for those who have the need to get a gun illegally are more likely to commit crimes with it and this would make getting one harder.

There are also lot of cases where a child gets their hands on a gun and accidents happen, right? I don't know what kind of punishments the owners of those guns get for not storing them properly, but I really hope they're strict ones. Also, I think that for these reasons it'd be for the best if everyone who bought a gun had to take some kind of course about safe handling and storing of a gun. Maybe there could even be a test and if you can't pass it, you can't buy a gun.

Of course, the best thing would be to get rid of the root of the problems, as in find a way to get help to those who do mass killings before they do them, but as long as that's not sorted out, rules like this could slow down at least some of them.

I just don't see why a "regular" person who is not in the active military should be allowed to own an "assault, semi-automatic" weapon.

There's a big difference between a gun which shoots one bullet at a time----and semi/automatic weapons which use cartridges which fire many bullets.

That's why possession of an unlicensed rifle in NY State is a misdemeanor----and possession of an unlicensed handgun is a felony.

Please note that I'm not fanatical about TAKING AWAY A PERSON'S GUNS. I would just rather civilians not have assault, automatic or semiautomatic weapons.