Congress knows that tactic too.
While we're all worked up over S.1805, the House has a bill in a subcommittee that can really whack us.
We all know what we'd do if they were to pass some really restrictive law, don't we? We'd go out and, in the interval between the time the law was signed and when it went into effect, we'd buy up everything in sight... Right? Well, let me direct you to H.R.2403, Title II, Sec. 201(g):
STOCKPILING- It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, purchase, or import a firearm product, after the date a regulation is prescribed under this Act with respect to the product and before the date the regulation takes effect, at a rate that is significantly greater than the rate at which the person manufactured, purchased, or imported the product during a base period (prescribed by the Attorney General in regulations) ending before the date the regulation is so prescribed.
Neat, ain't it? And, while it's boxed up in the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security right now, anybody want to guess how long it'll take to tack it onto some other bill that's being pushed through a conference committee?
Now you know why Washington D.C. has such stringent laws regarding firearms.
Solution: by as many new firearms as you can afford and stock up on ammo with great vigor -- and get all of your friends, neighbors, relatives, and complete strangers to do likewise.
And learn the fine arts of gunsmithing,reloading, and caching.....