The fallacy of the entire thing is that the bad guys will still get whatever they can afford with no problem so gun law number 20,001 will do what the other 20,000 do. Nothing. Waste of tax payers (makers) dollars.
you are, of course correct. the elites don’t want to curb criminal behavior as long as they can use it as a lever to pry more and more rights. which explains their haste to harass the innocent gun owners over the guilty criminals