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Is this the American Experience?

I live in Australia and I recently moved state.
Australia has six states and one territory, with slightly different laws applying to the road rules and so on.

I was a pistol shooter in my old state, the process of obtaining my handgun license took almost two years, you have to be accepted by the club, be a member for at least six months and pass a gun safety course, practical course and written test.

Then you can buy certain calibre guns, after waiting up to 28 days and only through a dealer.

You have to keep it at home in a safe with 3 mm thick walls, with an alarm you have to be able to respond to 24 hours a day or monitored with a camera to a hard drive in another location.

Then you can only take the gun back to the range to take part in an official competition.

Of which you have to compete in a minimum number a year or the police come looking for you!

You can’t take it into the woods to shoot at stuff.

Anyway l am in a new state and enquiring about getting a handgun license, (they aren’t transferable).

Even more difficult AND you have to be fingerprinted as well.

I personally draw the line at this….

Do any American states have such strict requirements?

Which state is the strictest?
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zonavar68 · 51-55, M
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.
@zonavar68 Then explain the serious rise in knife crimes.
Nitedoc · 51-55, M
@zonavar68 It's very safe where I live too. I wonder why that is?