barnbwt raised a few very good questions. Allow me to add:
For Ms. Clinton:
#1: What do you think the Founders meant when they wrote the 2nd Amendment? Why should it be interpreted differently today?
#2: You've said the Supreme Court "got it wrong" with the Heller decision. Please tell us which aspects of that decision you find deficient and why. You have also mentioned tackling gun violence from "day one" of your administration, and you've implied that you'll appoint future Supreme Court Justices who will facilitate this. However,
Heller was only authored ten years ago. Are you comfortable with a court so willing to overturn itself every few years?
#3: You've voiced support for a "universal background check" system. With one exception, every rampage shooter in recent memory has purchased his guns at retail. He underwent and passed the background check. There have been dozens of studies done on the efficacy of background checks in reducing violent crime, and none has found anything more complimentary than "inconclusive." Why then do you wish to expand a system that obviously does not work? Please bear in mind that I remember your promise in 1994 that the Brady Act would reduce firearms-related violence by 50% or more.
#4: Your Vice Presidential candidate supported Operation Ceasefire and Project Exile when he was in office in Virginia. Both of those programs yielded real, measurable reductions in violent crime. Why do you insist on inflicting prior restraint on the law abiding, but ignore those programs?
#5: You have voiced support for rescinding the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) on the premise that it gives gun manufacturers some special and unique protection from liability. Please use your obviously superior knowledge of tort law to explain to us why these manufacturers should be singled out for predatory nuisance lawsuits. Please bear in mind that many of us remember your support for Andrew Cuomo's pledge to use such lawsuits as a means of destroying gun companies through attrition, or as he put it, "death by a thousand cuts."
#6: Please tell us how you would reform the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms. Not a single agent was prosecuted for the Fast & Furious operation, which has resulted in the deaths of over 200 Mexicans, using guns the Bureau funneled to gangs in that country. They are still conducting unsanctioned
sting operations, and those
continue to cause very real problems.
For Mr. Trump:
#1: In
DC v. Heller, the Supreme Court found that the 2nd Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. At the center of that was constitutional protection to keep and bear handguns. You live in a city that strictly limits ownership of handguns and only issues carry permits to a select few. How do you square those opposing ideas?
#2: You've said that you support barring people on the terrorist and/or no-fly lists from owning firearms. Have you researched the process by which people are placed on the list, and the difficulty of getting off it?
#3: You have proposed the idea of 50-state concealed carry. This sounds great on the surface. However, states such as New York, New Jersey, and Maryland will vehemently oppose such an initiative. How do you overcome their objections without creating a federal standard riddled with arbitrary and insurmountable barriers for permit issuance?
#4: You said that Apple should have been legally obligated to engineer a backdoor into the software of their iPhone during the investigation of the San Bernardino shooting. How do you reconcile that with the 1st and 4th Amendments? Please explain how you will balance government authority with civil liberties.
Hence, I'd love it if the questioner specifically brings up the 3 most obvious Trojan horses.