Remember that no one went to jail for it. Absence of evidence is not evidence.
You make my point. What would the Clintoons have done with expanded powers?
I consider the murder of the children at Waco to be a direct result of the government's campaign suggesting that citizen's cannot be trusted with arms because the may cause harm. The demonization of the NRA and militia groups was a necessary prelude to killing innocent Americans for keeping and bearing arms.