Added to that “why”...
Why do they ALWAYS proceed in the same fashion, with a blatantly coordinated attemp to “DO SOMETHING!” about law abiding citizens’ firearms?
I keep thinking back to the Obama era BATF's Operation Gunwalker aka Fast and Furious that promoted illegal gun sales to the Mexican drug cartels. This was ostensibly to set up the cartels for total destruction.
But it is pretty clear the true purpose was to promote gun atrocities which could be traced to insufficient gun control in the US. The plan was to turn public opinion against RKBA in furtherance of the globalist goal of UK/Canada/Australia style total gun confiscation.