Try looking at the mid- to late-1860s, when the newly-freed slaves (which is to say, CITIZENS) were denied the right to own firearms in the former Confederacy. That is a large part of the reason that we have the 14th Amendment.
Try also looking at the Sullivan law, passed in NYC in 1911 (or thereabouts) - aimed at eliminating the ownership of guns by the “swarthy” types - Italians and Eastern Europeans.
Gun control in this country has its post-colonial origins in RACE or racial notions. It has morphed into a means of controlling everyone, not just the “untermenschen” that were targeted (no pun intended) by prior laws. Now we are ALL untermenschen, unless we are employed by the authoritarians.
I’m Italian and I dont think we should be allowed to have guns :) just kidding.
It’s always a slippery slope.
the old “we’re doing this for the country’s own good”
and then it snowballs.
They forget WE are the government. they are just hired hands.