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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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Why do you want a gun?
What would you use it for?
Nitedoc · 51-55, M
@hartfire In most of America we don't need a reason to own a gun. It's called freedom.
Vetrov · 61-69, M
Shooting at things @hartfire
Ozuye502 · 36-40, M
@hartfire my weapons all fill different rolls from daily carry to competition shooting and hunting. Also a few are for liberty use only. There are more firearms in civilian hands then people in the US. But if you remove 5 cities from the crime stats we are no violent than the rest of the world.