Well, the first thing they need to do is have a list of what everyone has... after all of those “Boating accidents”..
There actions are very strange - entertaining to a degree - it’s always fun to watch budding totalitarians get their just comeuppance. :-)
Yes they just keep trying for registration ie. universal background checks which will never happen and even if it did nobody will adhere to it. The line in the sand for the American public is guns. If they push too hard CWII commences.