What Requirements Should People Need To Purchase A Gun?

MrBeef said:
Don’t want someone who’s planning to do something to be able to act on it quickly

Like if someone was planning to shoot up a Benny the butcher show they got tickets to in Oct

They can’t try and get a gun in June when they decide Benny should get aired out
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Don't want law abiding citizens waiting
 
MrBeef said:
1. Being 21 or older
2. Taking a firearms safety course
3. Mental evaluation
4. Cannot receive a gun the same year you apply to get a license
5. A bi annual evaluation
6. Background check (obviously)
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I'm fine with increasing the age as long as you just make everything at 21. Officially make 21 as being the age of an adult

So everything you can do at 18.. make that now 21
 
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Every state should have a 5 person panel that reviews and approves every gun ownership application. Panel should include 2 mental health professionals, a lawyer, a sociologist, and an internet researcher.

That panel should review:

-The gun ownership application submitted by the applicant
-The person's legal history
-The person's mental health history
-Their social services history
-All publicly available information about the person, including social media profiles

There should be some applications that don't even make it to the panel. Automatic denials for any person charged with any violent crime within the last 5 years. Automatic denials for any person convicted of a violent crime in the last 15 years.
 
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5th Letter said:
Background check, mental health evaluation
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Matt123 said:
More thorough background check, checking for any history of mental illness. Gun shop owners should be able to use their own judgment to a certain extent to deny someone a purchase if he/she seems unstable or throws up any red flags.
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FBI background checks are already done when you buy from a gun shop or pawn shop that handles guns. The only way to strengthen them would be to require the same background check on private sales which, IMO, would be the best thing possible.

There's a checkbox that I'm pretty sure folks lie on, but the 4473 does specifically ask if you've ever been involuntarily committed to a mental institution and if you check "yes" you're automatically disqualified from buying a gun. Taking that a step further would mean that anyone involuntarily committed would need to be flagged at the federal level so this question isn't even necessary; it will reject the purchase automatically.
 
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