| IMO, the government has no right to infringe upon the 2nd amendment's (or in my case the UK's Bill of Rights during the 1600 that was the forerunner to your bill of rights, except we claused ours so much it doesn't exist anymore) ability to fulfill its duty. That is, in the event of a government turning against its people, the ability to reply by overthrowing it. This means gun ownership must remain legal.
However, that does not mean there should not be regulation. I would argue that all gun owners must be licensed for that particular type of weapon (handgun, rifle, sniper rifle (any rifle that can accurately achieve 1000m for detail, and others I can't think of now), and pre-requisite to that license would be six months of training on a range with that type of weapon, plus basic safety and maintenance of weapons classes. I'd also prefer weapons to be stored in an armory, just one of those heavy metal cages the size of a filing cabinet would do, with a good lock on it, but I'm not sure whether that should quite be law.
I don't approve of people carrying them on their body in the streets, concealed or not. In transport to ranges or hunting areas they should be in a case, or at least kept in a vehicle untill at the destination
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