So poor people can’t own guns? A lot of people make grand statements and forget about the secondary and tertiary effects. OBTW I was of age when this whole “cheap gun” issue raised its head. One of the reasons that no laws were passed to remove “cheap handguns” is because the way they categorized cheap guns was to outlaw a lot of very good guns, e.g. Smith and Wesson five shot guns, Colt Peacemakers, and many antique guns. And allowed the continuation of a lot of poorly made (and inexpensive guns).
Which shows it is almost impossible to legislate the removal of a classification of guns, e.g. AR15s.
That and the more targeted line of "black people can't own guns?" was the line of arguments that successfully block banning "Saturday Night Specials".
The Left, which like cancer never sleeps just switched targets and was successful a short time later in 1986 at banning imports and manufacture of new full autos for sale to civilians.