In California in about 1995 they passed a handgun safety act that made you show competency you knew how to handle a gun. This was introduced as a lifetime thing. Once you passed the test you were good to go for life buying guns cause you knew how to use them right.... Then about five years later the people saying this was a great idea didn't think it was enough. Now we have to take a safety test to buy a gun every five years because it expires. This means you have to pay the state additional taxes to prove again and again that you know how to use a gun. Then the tests started to get more tricky and the questions more stupid and focusing on obscure law to trip you up. All of these "reasonable" steps are all a means to an end. In the original california assault weapons ban that went national in 1994 it was "evil features" that caused a rifle to become an assault weapon. Now it just has to have a detachable magazine in the view of many California legislaters. Tomorrow it will be any gun that fires more than 1 round in 10 seconds...... As we saw in a recent multiple homicide in Southern california where a shotgun was the weapon used to kill multiple people over a long period of time, rate of fire and reload time was not even a factor in the multiple shooting as the perp went from location to location leaving bodies in his wake. People who were unarmed were carjacked and shot as he changed vehicles.
We are being backed into a corner by those who would abolish the second amendment one step at a time. They don't care how long it takes as long as they are making progress and the end result is the same. Only those with special government permission will be granted to have guns such as police and military. Farmers will be very limited on what they can use for rodent control, hunting in the traditional sense will be outlawed and ammunition will be tracked. All other guns will be prohibited.... That's what I see in my crystal ball if current trends continue unchecked.
We are being backed into a corner by those who would abolish the second amendment one step at a time. They don't care how long it takes as long as they are making progress and the end result is the same. Only those with special government permission will be granted to have guns such as police and military. Farmers will be very limited on what they can use for rodent control, hunting in the traditional sense will be outlawed and ammunition will be tracked. All other guns will be prohibited.... That's what I see in my crystal ball if current trends continue unchecked.