The general assumption of politically active gun owners in the US is that any attempt to regulate guns is a back-door route to try and outlaw gun ownership. Thi

The general assumption of politically active gun owners in the US is that any attempt to regulate guns is a back-door route to try and outlaw gun ownership. This seems like an accurate assessment of how US gun politics actually works. Even consumer safety law intended to protect against dangerously defective products was used to push gun control under the pretext that firing reliably when called upon to do so was a dangerous defect - and now consumer safety law no longer applies to guns in the US because gun owners no longer trust the government with that power.