I can't say, actually, because when *I* got my driver's license it was drop-dead easy, but when my wife had to get hers again (she had, literally, not noticed that it had expired FOUR YEARS AGO and thus had to start the whole process again) it had turned into a nightmare circus.
Never having applied for a firearm myself, I know some areas where it's a matter of filling out a form and waiting a bit, and other areas where it would probably be easier to MAKE the gun than to actually get a license to use it.
Of course, a driver's license should be much harder. A handgun is harder to aim and can't smash through walls, doors, light poles, and so on. The amount of energy in a car is immense -- the kinetic energy of two tons of steel travelling at 60mph is very impressive, and the chemical energy in the tank is worse.
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Never having applied for a firearm myself, I know some areas where it's a matter of filling out a form and waiting a bit, and other areas where it would probably be easier to MAKE the gun than to actually get a license to use it.
Of course, a driver's license should be much harder. A handgun is harder to aim and can't smash through walls, doors, light poles, and so on. The amount of energy in a car is immense -- the kinetic energy of two tons of steel travelling at 60mph is very impressive, and the chemical energy in the tank is worse.
By comparison, handguns are harmless.