Is this the American Experience?

Are you for real? Why would any sane person seeking to own a lethal weapon not want to prove his or her identity?

Usually the Southern states have the least restrictive gun laws and, in general, the lowest crime rates. In Texas there is no license required to own a gun or to carry it, open or concealed. You can buy all the ammo you want and you can shoot in most any safe place outside of any city limits. Most of the other states In the South have similar laws.

Our Australian gun laws also make it a VERY safe country in terms of gun-related violence and crime! We do NOT want to take the approach that exists in the USA.

Nope, no such regulations/laws exist in the U.S.

California has the most stringent laws, but not near as stringent as Australia's.

We certainly need something close to what you have, but I don't see it ever coming to pass.

Interesting - I did not realise Australia like America has no cohesive, national gun laws either; though I knew they vary between the American States.

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A friend told me of an odd experience when visiting the USA (from England) with another friend, to attend an outdoor-pursuits symposium. This was probably in an area that sees few foreign tourists, most of whom are likely to go to the "honey pots" like Florida, New York and the Grand Canyon.

They befriended a local attendee who invited them back to his family's farm, where they were proudly shown the household arsenal. "Twenty a lot? Oh no!" their host said, "Some have far more guns than this!"

Next day, he recounted, he visited the local shop to buy replacements for the ammunition they'd been invited to expend on the farm's private range; and while he was at it, a couple of cans of beer.

The cashier had to refuse the beer because he could not prove his age. He'd left his passport at his hosts' and the shop assistant could not understand how the British driving-licence he did have with him, shows the holder's date of birth. (It is discreetly disguised in what looks just like a pure serial number, but the car-hire office staff would be familiar with foreign licences. of course.)

The ammunition? No problem, and him not only a stranger in town, but a foreign one where they probably see few foreigners!

California new York new jersey are all fighting to have the strictest firearm regulations. However Australia doesn't have the levels of criminal activity because gangs aren't as prevalent there and most gun crimes are related to gang activity in the us.

You really are softer than elephant diarrhea

The laws in the US are not that stringent. Although, at one time, handguns were banned in Chicago and Washington DC. Handguns owned prior to the ban were grandfathered in, but strict storage requirements rendered them useless in the event of a home invasion. The Supreme Court eventually overturned the bans in both cities.

Two Territories. NT and the ACT.

Year the States are a rule unto themselves. Duplicity everywhere. The Constitution is written that way and the Federal government can't do squat. No way the States will voluntarily give up power.

I have never owned a gun license or a gun, but a long time ago I did have to get a firearms identification card, because I was transporting my father's antique rifle collection in the trunk of my car. All I had to do to get that was show a photo ID.

The Blue, strict gun controlled one's, have the most crime. Fact. This concept of 'protection'. is proven daily, the world over!

Why do you want a gun?
What would you use it for?

Depends on the state, but gun laws in America are nowhere near this restrictive.

I may be wrong but I think that's even stricter and more bureaucratic than in the UK!

May I ask why you need a gun?

Some states are the wild west, limited or no checks in the right situation. Open carry, some states even want to eliminate the permit.

I currently live in the upper midwestern state of iowa, I went to the local Sheriff's office, got my permit to purchase after a background check that was near instataneous, so I can go into any shop, pick out any firearm in any caliber I wish, fill out the required federal forms, show my permit to purchase card, pay for the weapon, and walk out with it within an hour, and since I live alone, no safe is required, I can even wear it on my hip concealed pretty much everywhere.