if you must ask permission to buy a gun then you do not anymore have a RIGHT you have a privilege, and those can be revoked with little or no cause.
as of now, to lose your RIGHT to own firearms you have to commit a felony and be convicted, and even then it's not necessarily permanent. when the feds simply end the privilege of gun ownership, it will be gone forever, and we will be RULED.
citizens are conronted by armed gangs of home invaders, looters, rioters, street thugs, and armed robbers.
a gun which will put them on their butts is essential, since suppressive fire from your squad while you withdraw is not an option.
limiting the 'firepower" of the citizen is infringing on the right to bear arms. shooting is not a hobby, and the second amendment is not about hunting.
"The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ...the unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.
The militia, who are in fact the effective part of the people at large, will render many troops quite unnecessary. They will form a powerful check upon the regular troops, and will generally be sufficient to over-awe them.Whereas civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as military forces, which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms." ~Tench Coxe Pennsylvanian delegate to the continental congress