Right, that prohibitions rarely work. See "Prohibition" and the 18th/21st Amendments even.

I would SETTLE for just any of the same requirements of certain other legal products - alcohol amongst them...if one has to be 21 to drink alcohol or to go gambling, bcs these are "dangerous" items to health....then 21 min age to purchase a gun AND ammo seems quite logically in order.

I would actually put the onus more on the ammunition than on the gun itself.

Just database track the purchases of ammunition, use the exact same software as what was already required for selling obstensibly "over-the-counter" products with pseudoenephrine in it. The database is required and as such even tho OTC, it is kept locked up behind the pharmacy desk now - and ID is required too.

Tax the hell out of selling ammunition. Just like other legal yet high taxes on cigarettes, skoal, alcohol...

Also, people have trouble buying insurance for their potential dangerous actions it seems...so include an insurance premium pricing on each bullet as well, that goes to a victims insurance fund program.

That way nothing is banned nor illegal...but as in the case of cigarettes, raising the prices very high will result in some people choosing to quit the habit!

A new proposal I would say is to register the bullets/ammo with numbers or rfid chips, then the database entry will know which numbers were in which boxes and who they were sold to.

Any consequent crime would not necessarily be assumed to be the purchaser....but it would certainly give the police a person to start questioning at least to see if they were transferrred after purchase and to whom.

Eliminate the purchase loopholes of course to be consistent. Tax the sales of guns. Require ID, and minimum age requirements, just like the Feds and states make for cigarette or alcohol sales.

Add a FOID requirement for all gun purchases. And FOIDs need to be registered/renewed, so put an insurance policy premium on those prices as well.

Right to bear arms to me means the guns. Ammunition was not included specifically in the Constitution. And in any case, ID requirements and taxes come under the constitution as "well-regulated" and taxes for the benefit and betterment of the society as a whole.