Please offer a out of the box reasoned suggestions for effective gun control
Background checks and firmly enforced storage requirements. With those two you can licence all manner of stuff, from muzzle loading flintlocks to Hughes Chain Guns (no exageration) and still keep deaths by firearms pretty much limited to organised crime. Evidence-Australia.
Better communication between states and reporting of those unfit to own firearms. Licensing and training for owners. And I own multiple firearms myself. Including an AR-15 and a FiveseveN.
Was here and it's a good question but I've chosen to stay publicly quiet on my views.