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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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Nitedoc · 51-55, M
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.
Vetrov · 61-69, M
@Nitedoc There are some SW members here from Texas and the often discuss 2nd Ammendment.