The incessant pressures for gun control are the same as the relentless pressures for “immigration reform”. Both are reminiscent of villains in the horror movies that will not die.
Connected elites, crony capitalists, and MSM have their perpetual hooks in Congress looking for their favors and handouts. They combine with a large uniformed segment of America also looking for handouts.
Phony benevolent elites in society will always promote disarming the masses, because it will minimize any perception by their peers in power that masses should have political power. Self defense always equals political power. Elites prefer unilateral power.
That’s why the groups that benefit most from collectivism are the rich and the poor with the rich being the largest proponents of collectivism.