A Compromise Gun Bill That I Can Live With

In celebration of the upcoming anniversary of the murders at Sandy Hook Elementary, the antis are doing 'retrospectives' and bemoaning the lack of action towards disarming people who haven't murdered a bunch of children. Normally I am loathe to offer the Leviathan any additional power, but in this case I believe we should propose our own gun control bill. My modest proposal . . .

• Repeal the Brady Bill and do away with NICS entirely. It was supposed to keep felons from getting firearms but has failed miserably. The answer is not to “tweak” background checks; the answer is to get rid of them entirely.
• Repeal the Hughes Amendment to the Firearm Owners Protection Act limiting ownership of full-auto weapons to those made prior to 1986.
• IAW the 1968 amendments to the NFA there will be a 90-day amnesty registration period every year, from January 1^st through April 1^st (or March 30^th on leap years). The ATF has 30 days to process any NFA transaction. Failure to complete a transaction in 30 days will result in the refunding of all fees to the transferees and issuance of a default registration letter, stating that the NFA items in question are legally possessed even if they are not entered in the NFRTR.
• Any pilot or aircraft crew member who is an honorably discharged veteran or possesses a permit to carry from any state is authorized to carry a firearm on their airplane in any manner they deem fit.
• Repeal the Gun Free School Zone Act of 1990.
• Any schoolteacher, school employee or school volunteer who is an honorably discharged veteran or possesses a permit to carry from any state is authorized to carry a firearm in any school in any manner they deem fit. Any school district which found in violation of this law shall forfeit all Federal funds for a period of 6 months (for a first offense) and not less than 1 year for subsequent offenses.
• Congress shall deem that Article IV Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution (commonly known as the full faith and credit clause) applies to state issued permits to carry. Any state which fails to honor the permits of every other state shall forfeit all Federal funds for a period of 6 months (for a first offense) and not less than 1 year for subsequent offenses.
• IAW Coffin v. United States a person who is attacked in a place s/he has a right to be and who is not engaged in unlawful activity has no duty to retreat and has the right to meet force with force, including deadly force if s/he reasonably believes it is necessary in order to prevent death or great bodily harm to him/herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony and shall be presumed to have acted in self-defense until proven otherwise. Law enforcement may not arrest an individual for using deadly force unless they have probable cause to believe that the use of force was unlawful.
• The definition of “sporting purposes” shall include all types of sport and competitive shooting and all “military style” and semi-automatic rifles, shotguns and handguns are hereby deemed suitable for sport shooting.
• Any firearm or firearm accessory made by a private individual for their personal use is beyond the authority of Congress under its constitutional power to regulate commerce among the states.
• “High capacity” magazines are hereby defined as any ammunition feeding device designed to hold more than 150 rounds.
• “Armor piercing” bullets are hereby defined as any round which, when fired from a pistol with a barrel of no more than 4 inches (not including recoil or sound suppressor) can pierce 1 inch of HY-100 steel (or its equivalent) at 200 yards.