Obama wants background checks for all gun buyers (closing the private-sale loophole) and limits on military-style weapons and high-capacity clips. Add enhanced crime-gun tracing, modernizing ATF data management, tougher penalties for gun trafficking, a waiting period for gun buyers (with an emergency override for those under active threat), and a monthly limit on any individual’s volume of guns purchased (with an emergency override for those under active threat), and you’d have a pretty good proposal that didn’t burden the right to keep and bear arms.

Update In response to comments, the override provision has been moved to where it should have been, qualifying the waiting period rather than the purchase limit.