The article is complete spin, aimed at putting guns into the same category as Big Tobacco (and soon, Big SUV and Big Mac) as especially evil objects subject to extra-legal controls. To do this, they proudly point out that the Nanny State already controls toys and appliances, and then asks the typical stupidly-liberal rhetorical question, "why not guns?".
The article implies, falsely, that guns are completely immune from legal liability for genuinely defective products. So they want the government to design the guns first, before they can be sold. They will handily "discover" that current guns can't meet their new safety standards, and future guns never will, either.
It's all part of their plan to eliminate (or tax heavily) all things they disapprove of through threats of trial by crooked judges and idiot juries, or approval from agencies sworn to eliminate the items. For Big Tobacco, Big SUV, and Big Mac, they just want the power, and the money. "Big Gun" is scheduled for extinction under this scheme, money be hanged.