Gun Control

I support your constitutional right to own guns necessary to protect your home, hunt, target practice and other legal activities.
I do not believe that everyone should be allowed to carry a gun in public. I also believe that certain types of guns should be illegal. The government typically bans guns by model and then the gun manufacturers just sell a different model that does basically the same thing. I would determine which gun characteristics are necessary to protect our homes, hunt, target practice etc and then ban guns with characteristics not required for lawful activities. For example the number of shots per minute, the maximum caliber, the number of shots without reloading. It is true that when we limit guns only criminals will have guns but we will have given the police another tool to arrest criminals.
We don't let people drive, vote, smoke, or drink alcohol until they reach a certain age. I think similar rules should apply to guns.
We theoretically now have rules limiting who can purchase guns. A recent school shooting shows how broken the current system is. Not all states report the names of those who have been in mental institutions and there are loopholes in the definitions.