>therefore we should find a more clear-cut way to define what firearms are too dangerous for people to have access to and pass efficient legislation to limit that access"
>A well regulated(1) Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep(2) and bear Arms, shall not be infringed(2).
(1)Regulated, at the time of authorship of the Constitution, was meant to communicate the state of being in good or well working condition, not "constrained by executive or legislative dictat".
(2)To keep implies not only the mere act of possession or ownership, but the ability to maintain in a functional and useful state, which also implies that any tools or consumables needed for this maintenance are similarly protected.
>https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/keep
(3)Infringed:
Definition of infringe
transitive verb
1 : to encroach upon in a way that violates law or the rights of another infringe a patent
2 obsolete : defeat, frustrate
intransitive verb
: encroach —used with on or upon infringe on our rights
>https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infringe
Open/shut case really.
Stop trying to encroach on a Constitutionally guaranteed Civil Right, and these types of problems won't emerge. Your end state is in violation of the highest law in the entire country. It is not a tenable state of affairs in the U.S. that citizens should be able to be denied the capability to exercise a Constitutionally guaranteed right by default.
Yes, I'm a hardliner. No, I'm not salty because I want a minigun. Too much maintenance and ammo is expensive as all get out. More than anything I want the legal word torture that props up most firearms regulations to end, because all it does is set precedents for even more brazen violations of plain English rendered Constitutional rights under the guise of Public Safety.
Even machine guns are not regulated under the auspices of "Public Safety" and instead, are handled under the banner of regulating interstate commerce through taxation, with particularly high penalties for being caught having tax evaded. Yes, I find the closing of the machine gun registry in 1986 to be questionable in the legislative sense, as it's an end run around saying machine gun registering is henceforth illegal/impossible (unconstitutional) by instead restricting what the Federal Government can spend money on to not include maintaining and updating the registry (debatable legit on the cover, but second order or higher thinking renders this highly suspect). There's a contention there between the power of the purse, and the restriction of laws Congress can legally make that thusfar, there is a great deal of reticence on anyone that floats up to the Supreme Court to resolve.
Frankly, I've seen it as a madness that's only been getting worse over the years, and has served to rot the quality of legislation ever since it was enacted. That's just me though.