Criminal lifestyle and access to guns
I think if there were less access to guns it would make things much better and more realistic so im thinking if maybe you removed access to buy guns from the gun store and make it where you either only get them from house robberies or if you wanna have one for protection maybe go through a process with PD so everything is legal and you wont use it for illegal activities (Robbing,shooting etc.) maybe by removing guns for everyones access it will cause more RP between gangs to fight it out with either bats knives or even a pool cue instead of just non stop shootings and if they do by chance come across a gun it will have limited bullets so you will use it smarter instead of just shooting anyone that says your car is ugly or outfit is ugly. I just feel like there could be better ways to handle things and bring a more enjoyable experience for the criminals and the cops and make the cops have to worry less about feeling they will be shot at for even the simplest traffic stop. Maybe in the long run add searching people an option and maybe set certain rules on it to prevent PD from becoming loot pools maybe by just not allowing cops to be searched physically only by /me. I have had a decent amount of friends come into the city and not be interested because certain criminal features are not in the server and i feel like if this was a thing it would bring a bigger audience.
Or, players could create their own businesses - ammunations. And they could sell weapons. How they get those weapons (by house robberies or other methods) it's up to them. So basically redirect this into an RP opportunity. [this implies that public Ammunations are shut down]
These guys could sell to people who don't have gun licences as well (their risk, better pay). And I agree with the idea of people having to get gun licences from LSPD, creates another RP opportunity.