Folks: I'm looking for an authoritative list of U.S. jurisdictions in which legally owning a handgun (not getting a license to carry, but being able to legally own a handgun in one's home) is quite difficult - for instance, because there's a discretionary licensing scheme, a long (more than a month) waiting period, a huge amount of hassle, or very high fees (say, above $100). By way of comparison, I know California is a relatively high-regulation jurisdiction, but when I bought my handgun in the late 1990s, I basically had to wait 21 days (I think), pay a relatively modest fee (I forget what it was), and take a simple written test. I'm looking for jurisdictions that impose considerably greater constraints than this.
I'm giving a talk on guns in America, and I wanted to draw a handgun ownership laws map of the U.S. comparable to the right-to-carry laws maps that we've all seen. I don't want to score any political points; I just wanted to accurately and simply portray where handgun home ownership is quite difficult and where it's not that difficult. Many thanks for any help you can provide, Eugene
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