Canada's Prime Minister mandates examination of a full ban on handguns and assault weapons

[AlexG55]

@Mister44

If you want a real world example on this, not a hypothetical, it used to be fairly common in many states to need a sheriff to sign off on a pistol purchase. The state I moved to, Missouri, had this as law when I first moved here. It was part of the various Jim Crow laws.

Which is why IMO any gun control legislation in the US should be shall-issue as long as some objective requirements- for instance not having a criminal record or any disqualifying medical conditions and having a safe place to store the gun- are met.