You may believe that and you may even be right in this very moment, but overall and in the long run, that turns out to be a lie.
What happens are gradual restrictions slowly choking gun owners. The evolution is quite simple, and has been the same across the vast majority of european countries:
You first have rather permissive gun laws in place. My country for instance allowed legal carry of handguns on your person with extremely little restriction up to the second world war. They were mostly used against wild dogs, not other people.
But then we started tightening those gun laws by making various arguments like "suppressors are only used by poachers and assassins". OK, so we ban those.
Since "our society has fairly little violence, concealed carry of guns is almost never legitimately needed". OK, so we restrict concealed carry to judges, politicians and the absurdly rich.
"Outdoor gun ranges are a fucking nuisance. They're so loud and it's only a tiny minority of people that actually do sportshooting." Surely, that has to be resolved (it's a shame there's not a thing that could suppress this noise, right?). OK, so let's tighten environmental rules on outdoor gun ranges.
And what do you end with? You end up with a population that only knows guns from what they see in Hollywood movies and on the news. And these gullible and uninterested people are then led on by politicians that want to score easy wins. This leads to awesome knee jerk reactions like this example:
FN Herstal releases the FN P90. It is a personal defense weapon meant for vehicle crews that don't need or want full sized rifles. To pass NATO PDW qualification it has to (among other things) penetrate 20 layers of kevlar and a titanium plate at 200 meters. FN-H publishes a press release for this.
What does the press write? "FN-H has released a new super handheld weapon which is capable of piercing 20 bulletproof vests". Everyone reading that shits bricks. Politicians go into full retard mode and pass a law to ban the new 5.7x28 cartridge by name. Now, they can say that they have protected the civilians and the cops from this EVIL COP KILLER BULLET.
Except of course, that over two thirds of my legally owned firearms are WAY MORE POWERFUL than the fucking 5.7x28. There is literally no reason to ban this cartridge. It's not in any way more dangerous than what was already on the market. It was just a different load out. A simple AR15 is significantly more powerful.
Anyhow, what I'm trying to say is that the incremental bans almost never appear to be significant. Often they even make sense. Personally, if I were american, I wouldn't give a rats ass about someone trying to ban bumpfire/slidefire stocks. They are retarded toys that merely exist due to the wording used in american gun laws. They have no real legitimate purpose. But at the same time, it's one more step towards an extinguishing of the liberties of the american people.
It is EXTREMELY rare to see those rights being given back after they have once been taken, so it really should not be any surprise that people fight it tooth & nail. It is extremely naive to think that politicians and the antigun lobby will simply stop at "reasonable gun control". They will continue until no gun is left.
