I think that gun control is being used by Zero et al as a diversion — whereas he’d love it if we’d all just give up and go home, it isn’t what he’s primarily interested in, he’s just not letting a crisis go to waste.
That said, he’s also tried for years to manufacture reasons to head-fake the country into letting him edit the Constitution regarding both the 1st and the 2nd Amendment.
Obamacare will be his giant cowpie after it is finally struck down.
But there will be a lot of pain and suffering in the meanwhile, and plenty of whining here and in the media about the wrong people. Obama and his party are the enemy domestic, and Russia, China, and Islam are the enemy foreign.