re: #186 Feline Fearless Leader

How would legislation of in-home gun storage work out?

Without weapon registration you don’t know how many guns are in any particular home. And then you get into how one goes about inspecting and enforcing storage rules once enacted. Any sort of active or periodic inspection regime will raise howls of protest over invasion of homes and privacy. And if there is not any sort of active inspection, a passive system is going to turn into fines and charges added on after the fact when improper storage is noted as a follow-up to something else having the police enter the house.

Passive after-the-fact works fine.

Licensed pilots are required to keep up a certain amount of practice, to have the plane go through certain inspections every x hours of flight time, and to keep detailed logs. But nobody ever comes around to look at your logs, you don’t have to bring them anywhere to show anyone… unless there’s an “Incident”, when the investigators are there anyway, that’s when they take a look, and god help you if you haven’t dotted every I and crossed every T. (and you can’t claim you didn’t know, these requirements are part of the questions on the written test you have to pass before they let you take the checkride to demonstrate proficiency. And the checkride is super-picky, you don’t get a license unless you truly are capable.)