Gun control is not about controlling guns and it never has been.
If they had a point, they wouldn’t have to lie.
They know they are wrong because they know they are lying.
Gun control that works is to keep the criminals in jail where they don’t have access to guns.
The referenced article holds up NFA law as proof registration works: machine guns et al are strictly registered, few unto no crimes committed with them, no confiscations (arguably).
The problem with their reasoning is that taken to that degree, NFA basically proves how useless (at best) registration is. Only the most law abiding submit. Millions of such guns remain unregistered. The registration amounts to a list of people for whom there is absolutely no reason to register, and whom the government would be very unwise to attempt wholesale confiscation from. This is NOT where the Left really wants to go.