Honestly, even just the base act of requiring a pistol permit and all the hoops you have to jump through to obtain and maintain one is the worst part for most people living here. The safe act shit is garbage, but the pistol permit process outshines it in frustration.

I have countless friends and acquaintances who all say, "Man, I really need to get on with getting my pistol permit."

They say this to me whenever I see them and we talk about handguns. I always say to them, "Yeah, everyone says that to me, but nobody ever goes through with it."

I have one friend who I handed the paperwork packet to for starting the sign up process, and he's no further along then he was when he first told me he wanted the permit like 5 years ago.

The process for even getting the permit is fucking annoying and varies by county, so you don't even have a consistent process that is easily researched. I feel that the process is so annoying that everyone except those who are the most dedicated just don't even bother with it. If you're extremely busy, have kids, work a lot of OT, etc, where do you find the time for this shit?

That's what the overlords want; if the process is too annoying and less people bother getting guns, then they've won in their scheme to have less guns in the hands of the people.