Compromise?
How about we begin with things as they were when I graduated high school in 1967?
No gun permits (at least out west, anyway). No registration. No licensed dealers.
Guns by mail. Guns at Sears. Guns at Montgomery Wards. Guns at hardware stores and gas stations. Guns, for crying out loud, at my local supermarket (Raley's) in Placerville, California.
No school shootings. No theater rampages. Murder was still something charged to a person rather than whatever he used to do it.
Let's start there.
Now, the compromise I want to offer is that in exchange for declassifying gun mufflers (suppressors/silencers), I am willing to endure legislation that makes gun safety training mandatory in schools, kind of like the old driver's ed programs.
How about that, then?