I'm leery of automatic approvals but applications should be approved or denied in a timely manner with a pathway for appeal. 45 days seems like a decent figure.
I guess I don't really care if automatic approvals happen in practice, but I'd like some hard date for the government to have to respond by. Given that most of the paperwork system can be (or already is) automated, this should be trivial. I'd also like to see a lower tax stamp price (vs the $200 today). Given the scale or something like this, I would think they could get a mostly automated system down to $50-100 per event.
Initial registration would be free for say a one year period and the buyback would be in effect for the same.
Yeah a year should be a sufficient amount of time, especially because there would probably be a period of time (like a year) where the law was in review/revision before becoming effective.
Such a system seems possible but the background should be re-run on some regular basis to keep people current. Also transfers should be logged and owners randomly audited.
Sure - I could definitely see the background checks being run every 2-4 years. I envision this as being a separate pathway that one could take as opposed to the option outlined above (standard NFA paperwork). This would be good for people who will be buying multiple items consistently OR simply don't want to wait 45 days+
I'm not entirely opposed to including semi-auto handguns in this program.
I just threw this out there as food for though. I own slightly over a dozen guns myself, and about 1/3 of them would fall into this area as "evil assault weapons" and probably 2/3 in total if we include semi auto pistols. Heck my shotgun (I have one) would fall into the definition (potentially) depending on how it was written.
Out of curiosity, why did you pick 1945 and 5 round mags? Do you mean detachable mags, or anything with a 5+1 capacity (including blind mags)? Would exclusions be given for airguns and/or rimfires?
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