Interesting concept.
I would have to agree with this, but I think you need to further refine it.
In the US, as in most Western nations, you have government agencies writing “regulations” that are de facto the law but never went through a real legislative or judicial process.
You today have some dweeb in the DOJ, EPA, FAA making some rule, and you the citizen need to follow it. That rule was never voted on in Congress.
You have 50 volumes of CFR (Code of Federal Regulations), annual additions spanning more than 25,000 pages, with 3,000 various offenses for which you can be fined, incarcerated, or have your property seized.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Federal_Regulations
For example: https://www.faa.gov/space/legislation_regulation_guidance/
Some lawyers working for the FAA write some great new rules. These rules get posted and you the citizen (if you were paying attention) have a window where you can complain etc. (not that this really matters). After that, the rule gets posted and is the law of the land. There is no vote, Congress doesn’t look at it, most the news won’t report it, and so more and more rules are written by about 15 different agencies that write regulations that directly impact the lives of citizens. And here we are, you live in a “free” country where the EPA regulates how much water your toilet uses per flush and what lightbulb you use so you’re not in the dark. The DEA wants a report on how much, when and where you buy a decongestant and considers MJ a schedule 1 drug (like heroin and LSD). The ATF/FBI need to know if you buy a gun but claim they don’t share that information nor store it (they said you can trust them), and the TSA writes rules on what they get to do to you when you’re at the airport. But no worries, it’s all for public safety, so it’s all good.
Congress has abdicated it’s job to federal agencies and departments that are de facto legislating.
Congress could send a proposed bill to the federal agencies involved.
The agencies could send back their proposed revisions.
“The ATF/FBI need to know if you buy a gun but claim they don’t share that information nor store it (they said you can trust them)”
I have previously posted this:
It should be noted that it was in 1993 and is in 2021 technically possible to have gun purchase criminal database background checking along with gun buyer anonymity with respect to the government.
One means would be to have each state government issue bar books to gun dealers covering all persons to which it has issued ID cards. There might be annual cumulative bar books, monthly cumulative update bar books and daily/dealer request cumulative bar fax updates.
Another means for 1993 technology would have the gun dealer would call an 800 number, give the operator the prospective buyer’s ID type, the five-digit zip code off the ID or the first three alphanumeric characters of the ID, say 545 in the case of my passport or G61 or 34275 in the case of my state ID card. The government would then fax back the associated bar list. If my passport number or last eight digits of my state ID card number was not on that list, I could then pay the dealer and walk out the door with my purchase. In 2021, an Internet website could make this far easier, and cheaper, and Amendment IV compatible.