The problem is short that weapon ownership is established as a right in the US - not a privilege. This makes it much harder and less palatable to regulate. It's

The problem is short that weapon ownership is established as a right in the US - not a privilege. This makes it much harder and less palatable to regulate. It's been done, but there's tons of court cases where strict laws were overturned after a lengthy court battle...that and there's enough people in this country that will vote out any lawmaker who goes after firearm ownership. This is why lawmakers faff around with stupid ineffective solutions like "a firearm cannot have any of these features" instead of something more "common sense" - odds are it's been tried, and repealed or overturned.