Cory Booker wants to require federal license for gun owners

“My plan to address gun violence is simple - we will make it harder for people who should not have a gun to get one,” the senator explained.

And Senator Booker... who decides who should and should not have a gun?
And Senator Booker... who pays for the background check, and permitting process? My guess is you'll put the burden on the person who wants the gun.
_A person will have to PAY the government to exercise a constitutional right.
_The gun permitting fees, just like the tax code, will become a social engineering tool. When do we the governed get to vote on the fee schedule of a government agency. Anti-gun political elite will use fee schedules to restrain the right of the financially disadvantaged. You know the people that don't live in gated communities and who don't have security forces to augment the police response.
And Senator Booker... what is the average response time for an armed response to an armed threat in your constituency, among those who don't live in gated secured communities.?

Redundant.
Every state in the union already requires a license and background checks of some sort.
Last I saw, this was not an enumerated power of the federal government. What's next, federal marriage licenses? Federal license plates? Federal driver's licenses?

I admire the desire to do something about the problem. However, I also call bullshit on the ingenuousness of this proposal. Where was it last year when he wasn't running for President?
He's been a Senator for a while.

I guess we need to conduct a Federal Investigation into the Obama gun running operation to see if they had a Federal License to provide evil black assault looking weapons to foreign individuals with a known criminal history.