DETROIT (WWJ) - A member of the Wayne County Commission is calling for mental checks and other limits on the sale of ammunition under what he's calling the “Bullet Bill."

Wayne County Commissioner Reggie "Reg" Davis, who represents northwest Detroit, said he's been working with a team to start "a movement" beginning with a proposed local ordinance.

Standing beside mothers who lost children to gun violence, Davis said the proposed "Bullet Bill" would do the following:

Require law enforcement agencies to perform a background check that includes mental health data on the purchaser, using the FBI's national instant criminal background, prior to any sale of firearm ammunition, to screen out individuals who post a threat to themselves or others.

Require mental health providers to submit mental health records to law enforcement

Require ammunition to be purchased from either a law enforcement agency or from a retailer upon showing documentation of a successful background check

Limit the amount of ammunition that can be purchased

Sharply increase taxes on the sale of ammunition, with proceeds dedicated to assisting victims of gun violence and fund education and gun safety programs

Require serial numbers on bullets or someone similar to allow law enforcement to trace the source of ammunition

Davis said he's often asked why he's doing this.

"Detroit is the wild wild west. When you turn on the television every single day and you see, younger versions of myself especially, at the gas station, the dollar store, you know...shooting and killing each other for senseless reasons," Davis told WWJ's Vickie Thomas and other reporters "You know....'You stepped on my shoe,' 'You cursed out my girlfriend.' That has to stop, and that's why we're here today."

Davis said he realizes that, due to state and federal statues, there will be a tough legal battles ahead; but, eventually, Davis said he hopes for the "Bullet Bill" to become federal law.

"Let's begin to unload guns that mean harm to us. Let's take the bullets out of guns that our mentally ill family members may have access to. Let's put an end to the frequent stories about Wayne County residents, about Detroiters, identifying loved ones at the morgue who have been fatally shot as a result of the senseless gun violence that continues on our city streets."

Machete Mohammad, chief of staff for Davis, said he wants the public to understand that this is not an attack on the NRA.

"What were looking to do is find a way where we can get a hold of these guns that are being transported into our communities, and we want to be able to hold those who are purchasing these guns accountable, those who are buying these bullets accountable," Mohammad said. "It's not a step on anyone's second amendment right; it's just a way that we can find a way where we can stop this senseless violence in our communities."

Also along those gathered with Davis was local resident Tom Wilson, who called pervasive gun violence in Wayne County "insanity."

"And this is us doing it to us," Wilson said. "I told (former Detroit Police Chief and current head of Detroit Public Schools police) Ralph Godbee one time this is nobody coming from the 'hostile suburbs' or from Southwest Detroit coming in here and committing these heinous crimes. This is black people doing it to black people, and it has got to come to an end."

Susan Watson held up a photo of her son who was fatally shot in July of 2015.

"He was shot with an assault rifle, AK, in the back and in his leg...He was murdered," she said. "He had left two children behind; it is devastating. When they killed him they killed our whole family. This is enough is enough."

Davis said he's been speaking with the Detroit City Council about this proposal, and he'd love to take his ideas all the way up to President Donald Trump.

Davis said the Wayne County Commission will take up the issue at the Thursday, September 27 meeting.