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[Douglas Jr.]

Folks,

As an outsider, let me ask you something about the proceedings to buy a firearm in US.
From what I could understand there is a background check when you are buying a gun. But in addition, are there any psicological tests required to buy a gun over here?

As a father of a toddler and having a girl on the way, I was quite shocked with this coward act. Although I'm a supporter of the right to gun ownership but, to be realistic, be sure that you're going to have to deal with new restrictions about gun ownership.

[Olle]

Originally Posted by Douglas Jr.

Folks,

As an outsider, let me ask you something about the proceedings to buy a firearm in US.
From what I could understand there is a background check when you are buying a gun. But in addition, are there any psicological tests required to buy a gun over here?

As a father of a toddler and having a girl on the way, I was quite shocked with this coward act. Although I'm a supporter of the right to gun ownership but, to be realistic, be sure that you're going to have to deal with new restrictions about gun ownership.

Being from Sweden, I'm also kind of an outsider. I do enjoy the liberal gun laws here in the US, but when put in my perspective they are too liberal. I don't think bans on certain guns, registration etc will help a bit, the problem is in the people using the guns so the only logical remedy is to keep the guns out of the wrong hands. This is easier said than done, but one good start would be to introduce some form of license for owning and using firearms, very much like the CCW license. This would not be tied to certain guns, restrict the number or types of guns you can own etc, it would just be a license to shows that you have been properly trained and checked for criminal/mental issues. I'm sure we all agree that people driving cars should have a license and we all know the reason why it should be that way, so a license to own and use firearms should hopefully be seen as a positive thing by most responsible gun owners.

It seems like many of these mass shootings are done by people who shouldn't be able to acquire guns even under the current laws (minors, mentally ill etc) so I still don't know if more laws will help. Still, it's way to easy to check those "not mentally defective" and "not convicted felon" boxes when you buy a gun and the background check is obviously slipping as well, so that part amounts to nothing if nobody follows up on it.