You're full of it. The democrats are falling all over themselves not to appear anti-gun, and the few whackjobs in safe districts are just using this as a whipping boy for their idiot voters.
These guys remember full well what happened in 1994 and aren't about to repeat it.
The kids of today who think the musket toting "Minuteman" is a white racist genocidal Indian killing maniac will be writing the laws in twenty years.