In 2009, the FBI reported 71,000 cases. The DOJ only prosecuted 77 of them.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/l ... 86006.html
Add the Names of the Known Mentally Disturbed to Background Check Database, in Addition to Felons
Under DOJās proposal, agencies like the Social Security Administration would have to alert the F.B.I. if they were sending checks to a trustee because a beneficiary had been ruled mentally incompetent.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/l ... 86006.html
Create a Registry of Who Owns What Firearms
"I think under the Heller decision, registration would be constitutional," Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation in Bellevue, Wash., told CBSNews.com this week. "It doesn't make it good public policy." At the moment, a minority of states including New York, Maryland, California, New Jersey, and Massachusetts require mandatory registration for handguns.
This isn't a mere abstraction: four years ago, after Hurricane Katrina laid waste to much of New Orleans, local police, the National Guard, and U.S. Marshals began breaking into homes at gunpoint and confiscating lawfully-owned firearms.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504383_162- ... 04383.html
Require a Government-Issued License to Purchase
A Possession and Acquisition Licence is a licence that allows individuals in Canada to possess and acquire firearms as well as ammunition. Licences are typically valid for five (5) years and must be renewed prior to expiry to maintain all classes. Individuals who wish to possess or acquire firearms, and acquire ammunition in Canada, must have a valid Possession and Acquisition Licence. This licence is distributed exclusively by the RCMP and is generally obtained in the following three steps: safety training, application, security screening.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession ... on_Licence
Reinstate Federal Assault Weapons Ban
The Federal Assault Weapons Ban ... was a federal law in the United States that included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of semi-automatic rifles able to accept detachable magazines and two or more of the following: folding stock, pistol grip, bayonet, grenade launcher, flash suppressor. The Act also defined and banned 'large capacity ammunition feeding devices', which generally applied to magazines or other ammunition feeding devices with capacities of greater than a certain number of rounds. The now defunct federal ban set the limit at 10 rounds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_As ... eapons_Ban
Require Firearms be Stored at a Gun Range or in a Government-Inspected Vault in the Home
Ban all Firearms