> I no longer really accept any changes to status quo.

How about, at the very least, making it mandatory to report firearm theft? IIRC currently only 15 states actually have such a requirement.

I'm not American and for a long time I could not understand why American fiction, be it books or movies, assumes guns are available even in a zombie apocalypse. That is until I learned the above fact.

The fact that one can steal a gun and have no one report that makes firearms essentially a natural resource in the US.