Yep, just following orders. I cannot begin to tell you how many people here I have read saying the police will not enforce those laws even if they are passed. Heads in the sand....
Yes, this the template for confiscation of firearms. It will be low key at first, with a few examples of what happens when one *resists*, followed by wholesale nighttime no knock raids and murders in the name of the state.
The nazis tried that defense at the Nuremburg trials.