The track of history shows that every Communist regime has followed this sequence, in relation to subjugating a country:
1. Gun registration
2. Confiscation
3. Subjugation
Up until the point where all the guns are surrendered, it's all politics. Once that's accomplished, there's no need for a political structure anymore, and one party becomes the all dominant force which rules the land. Dictatorship is secured, and all dissent is crushed through violence and murder.
Western countries that have been disarmed are at the mercy of their ruling political class. I personally don't see how they can avoid eventually descending into totalitarian barbarism, because 'evil never sleeps'.
They always will. Man is by nature an aggressor. Religion helped hold back that instinct by attaching morality to action. Without it, as in all the Socialist/Communist controlled countries, there is no difference between a human life and a boat anchor. Humans are a thing to serve a purpose. When it serves no or the wrong purpose, you replace/get rid of it.
Since they are unburdened by morality, the logical move is for Socialist/Communist leaders to remove the possibility of resistance to their rule. And what better way than disarming your potential problem?
Then there is the 1984 aspect where you start outlawing/banning words until the mere ideas of resistance can’t even be formed in the human mind since there are no words to explain a given concept.
Together they show the philosophies of every tyrannical regime in history.