[Gay State Conservative]

When it comes to firearms the only restriction I will accept is that there'd be laws denying access to people who have *proven* themselves to be bad...unreliable...untrustworthy. That proof would be in the form of a criminal conviction for certain types of crimes.

Actually,I thought of two more restrictions. 1) Only US citizens could manufacture,distribute or possess a firearm and 2) Nobody under the age of "x" (perhaps 16) could possess a firearm.

[curious7]

‘... proven themselves to be bad...’ - like politicians and bureaucrats, for instance. We should push to deny bureaucrats any form of protection paid for by taxpayers. They should have to live like the ‘little people’.

[Smokin' Joe]

Possession means holding it in your hand.

At 16, I had already been hunting for seven years.

I got my first deer at 11.

But then, I grew up in the sticks, well outside of town.