I guess what you believe depends on weighing the government’s malignancy against its incompetence. Tough call.
Not a tough call at all: never attribute to incompetence that which can be attributed to malevolence.
This was done on purpose, to make all gun owners nervous.
This shit needs to backfire bigly.
Everytime the gun grabbers start up their bullshit or any President starts talking about taking away "assault rifles", high capacity magazines or whatever, I run right out with whatever I can spend and buy more.