As I mentioned, I'm from Australia, so if I misrepresented anything about the US then I'm happy to be corrected. In my original post I described an exaggerated

As I mentioned, I'm from Australia, so if I misrepresented anything about the US then I'm happy to be corrected. In my original post I described an exaggerated caricature of gun ownership. The point still stands though: that any private citizen (regardless of the amount of paper work they filled out) can choose to sleep with an assault rifle (or shotgun or semi-auto pistol etc.etc.) under their pillow at night is rather .... disturbing.