Yes, exactly. We have been banning obvious solutions to problems, and then complaining that nuclear is hard. It's ridiculous.

You forgot natural gas. Though that may have unfortunate geopolitical implications depending on where it is.

Why would you want to discharge tritium? It has many practical applications (and is fairly expensive because of that).

How to cheaply, efficiently and safely dispose of nuclear waste:

1. Enclose it in a huge solid block of glass (just melted sand, so it's cheap).
2. Take it to any deep ocean trench and dump it.
3. Tectonic plate subduction takes care of the rest.

Libya? So will they trade with ISIS once it's running the place? (and let's face it, the way it's going, it almost certainly will... in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they end up running the entire North Africa)

What I'm saying is that "in" and "on" is not really something that is strictly defined (and, indeed, some existing laws already interpret "on" as "in"). And if you mount one on top of your vehicle, and then build an enclosure around it such that there is a hole for bullets to come out of, but the gun itself cannot be seen, which one is it?

Are you sure that's enough? They did just what you said in Australia in the 90s; now they're worried that lever-action guns are "too fast", and want to ban them, too. Pump-action is also pretty fast.

And then you have guns specifically designed to work around restrictions like these, which are still not technically semi-auto (because they require you to perform a manual action to chamber the round for every shot), but are almost as fast in practice. Presumably you'd want to prohibit them, too. How would you word such a law?

Oh, and no additional magazine restrictions? 10 rounds is good enough?

As a gun owner, I'll trust another person to pull or not pull the trigger as appropriate, but when it gets complicated enough that there are electronic components in play, I start getting twitchy. Too many variables. I mean, just try to mentally apply the four rules to this thing... you would have to actively maintain it in the right orientation to avoid pointing the barrel in the wrong direction, and the "finger" is basically always on the trigger (and that aside it could go haywire and activate by itself if it gets shortened or something). Since the gun is away it can't be safely cleared if there is say an FTF. There's no way to verify that a shot was not a squib, and firing a second one could just blow the whole thing up in pieces and rain shrapnel on anyone unlucky enough to be nearby.

It's not about criminals, it's about honest people playing with a fun new "toy" without proper understanding of how dangerous it can be, and with no proper protocols to even ensure said safety designed into it.

So they know what the law says, they just know what it means.

What would you consider to be enough?

A puny .22 LR round can still punch through a frozen turkey wrapped in two layers of denim at 300 yards.

Actually hitting things at that distance will be difficult, and then there's bullet drop. But the bullet can still be plenty deadly at even extreme distances.

It depends on the state and the gun. In WA, for example, carrying a loaded rifle or shotgun in a car is illegal (and "in" is defined very broadly here, often to the point of even just leaning a loaded gun against a parked car). But carrying a loaded handgun concealed (in the car) is fine so long as you have a permit. The question is, what counts as "concealed" here. If you were to, say, mount it inside and rig up a pipe such that it has a line of fire, I think it would, strictly speaking, meet the definition.

What if it's a trans pre-teen girl?

(yes, they do exist these days)

Episode 1? Good writing? Seriously?

This is the single most ridiculous thing you've said in this thread so far, and you've said plenty of ridiculous things already.

While we're at it, Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.2 has also been released at the same time. In addition to VS 2015 support, this is mainly a bugfix and do-small-features-that-never-make-the-bar release. If you're a Python developer on Windows, please give it a try, especially if you've never heard about it before. Feel free to tell me that we suck so long as you also file a bug in the tracker. ~

(Full disclosure: I am a developer on the PTVS team.)