The gun industry should set its sights on a different target: certification.S'cuse me?
It should develop and adopt a private licensing and certification program fashioned on the highly successful scuba diving industry model to provide safety, legal, and marksmanship training to all gun owners and users.
We have it. From many sources.
No diver may fill their tanks or take part in recreational or professional diving trips without first obtaining a certification card from one of these private organizations.
Oh, I see.
No. I don't consent to be ruled by a "private" group, either. But I see you've managed to start a subversive new meme. If nothing else, it ought to make things harder for "those people," at least the ones in poorer, more dangerous communities who try to live by the rules.
And, it'll no doubt discourage many "fence sitters" from buying guns and ammo--possibly people who could have saved their lives--say--you never did say how many deaths you'd find acceptable with your little experiment here, because every benefit does have costs, you know.
I'm assuming you also have plans for those of us who own some of the 200 million guns already in circulation? And you can't forget those who reload.
Hey, have you figured out the economic impact to gun dealers? You may end up shutting more of them down than BATFU!
Y'know what, Mr. Media Conglomerate Mucky-Muck? What if somebody thinks we ought to treat the First Amendment the way you want to treat the Second, and make sure every Beckett subscriber/magazine purchaser has to undergo private certification before they can buy your trivial bread-and-circuses products?
Anything else, "hunter and gun owner" Peter A. Gudmundsson?