All new applicants for handgun licenses will now have to show they've been active members of a gun club for one year.
Well that should greatly cut down on the number of people that get them for self defense. Especialy women.
I don't know too many women who are not gun owners you could convince to get a gun for protection with a "In just over a year of paying fees you may be able to qualify to purchase one to defend yourself in your home after a couple interviews, tests..." argument.
No short term tangible results and most will not bother with the process. Which of course is the whole point, to greatly cut down on the number of legaly held handguns.
Only a small number of recreational shooters will continue to go through the process year after year.
After a number of years with that in place the number of legal gun owners strongly in favor of gun rights will have dwindled, allowing even further measures to be taken to reduce the 'proliferation of small arms' a noteworthy U.N. objective.
Pretty much only people into guns as a hobby will have them, well and of course the criminals with other sources, including theft. Of course when the only people with guns are criminals, they can then be demonized even more, because clearly the only thing they are being used for is criminal acts. Also requiring people to back larger government to protect them, leaving them needing and relying on others to give the false illusion of providing for a basic need.
So it all works out in the end.
The result is larger government, people willing to give up increasingly greater rights (like privacy rights, search and siezure rights etc etc) and taxes to pay for people to protect them because they are legaly prohibited from providing for that need themselves. Leaving them feeling they rely on thier protectors even more, and willing to allow whatever thier protectors say is needed to provide for thier safety.
