Prospective changes
- Waiting period for all gun sales
- Felons, people convicted of violent crime, people with registered mental illness prohibited from gun ownership
- National database of mental health patients not allowed to own guns
- Prohibitions can be reevaluated in 5 years
- Only mental health physicians can place/remove people from list
- Must re-pass safety test on prior to licensing, or show certificate from approved safety class
- Background checks for 100% of gun sales
- Gun shops run checks for personal sales for a fee, and change ownership
- No gun show loophole
- Must pass safety test on prior to licensing, or show certificate from approved safety class
- 100% gun sales with approved trigger locks
- Ammunition sales only to licensed gun owners
- Ammo sales of > 1000 rounds illegal
- Online ammo sales illegal
- No sales of ammunition designed for military or police use
- No sales of clips > 5 rounds - immediate ban
- Re-license all gun owners every 5 years
- Existing owners must pass safety test on relicensing, or show certificate from approved safety class (1 time only as long as license has never been revoked)
- Cross-border gun and ammo sale prohibited
- Large clip sales prohibited also
Retroactive changes
- All clips > 5 rounds illegal
- Consumer clip buy back program
- Gun ranges / clubs must eject any customers using illegal clips or ammo
- Gun shop / manufacturer tax write-off for illegal clips and ammo in inventory
- Licenses and permits may be revoked immediately
- Convicted of felony or violent crime
- Listed by mental health physician in no-own database
- Unlicensed owners must sell or transfer ownership of all guns and ammo to a gun shop or another licensed owner (assisted by gun shop to transfer ownership)
- Gun shop, club, and range required to check licenses with every purchase
- Similar to credit card authorization, reason for denial not provided to retailer
Funding
- Tax on all gun and ammunition sales
- Given to states to fund school security
- Guards or physical barriers at state discretion
- Tax on gun and ammo manufacturers
- Fund gun training and safety programs, executed by states
- May be run in high schools at state discretion
- National lottery
- Fund state run gun and clip buy back program
- Portion of funding must go to local policing and social services
- NRA forms training arm and given tax exempt status
- Donations help fund state sponsored training and education programs
- Checkbox on tax returns to fund state sponsored gun training and education programs (similar to presidential election funding)
Future
- In 10 years, all guns sold must be smart guns
- Can only be fired by registered owner and can only fire smart ammo
- DARPA projects contributed to gun industry
- In 15 years, all existing guns must be retrofit to smart-gun status, or be classified as non-firing collectables
- In 15 years, all sales of non-smart ammo ceases
- Change ACA to strengthen mental health coverage requirements - implementation in 5 years