As a firearm user/owner since I was about 5, most of these proposals make sense. And in fact most firearm owners (definitely not all) I talk to are all for universal background checks. Very few people with average common sense want convicted felons to be able to walk into gun shows and purchase firearms with zero background check required. Which is the case right now. I've seen some really shady characters at gun shows, people that if  I knew they lived in my neighborhood, I definitely wouldn't want owning firearms. That said, trying to ban semi-automatic weapons is what scares most in the firearm community, and politicians/citizens who are uneducated about firearms need to realize this: semi-automatic firearms encompass a huge variety of weapons, many used for hunting and sport. Trying to ban them is ridiculous. Stop with that rhetoric, and instead focus solely on common sense things like universal background checks, and we might make progress on this.