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An alternate approach would be this.
Dont try to control gun sales, instead pass laws with severe penalties on gun mishandling.
In this case, the mother was shot, so could not be prosecuted, but, if people have accidents with guns, threaten with guns, commit misdemeanors and other crimes with guns, allow minors unsupervised access to guns, do not keep guns properly locked, or in any way commit the common gun mishandling problems that cause accidents or crimes, they could legally, and constitutionally, be severly fined, jailed, and punished.
There is no constitutional protection for bad gun handling.
I was reading an analysis of the drug war failure the other day, and a part fo the article caught my eye. A police chief noticed thru statistical analysis that people who had minor gun crime incidents on their records were usuallythe same people that went on to commit worse gun crimes - by telling his police tyo watch those people, and watch for minor gun offenses and follow up on them, he reduced crimes in general by some fairly astonishing percentage.
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