Yes, they are. And we make it easy for them, by continuing to indulge in fantasies about citizens using guns to confront government tyranny.
The time to confront Government Tyranny is always now. Especially when this is still a war of words, when the epithet is the worst thing hurled.
Don't forget this country started because people used guns to confront Government tyranny, when all avenues of political approach had failed.
Yes, those citizens were trained later, and we got help from the French, among others, which kept Cornwallis' troops from evacuating Yorktown by sea, but those citizens won. The decisive weapons were not the muskets the British used, but the rifles the Colonists used which were the battle rifles of their day. THat is the very class of weapons that many in our Government would unconstitutionally deny us.
This nonsense of infringing the Second Amendment has only created a class of criminals with a decided firepower advantage over the law abiding in virtually every jurisdiction. With nothing to lose, the criminals may own anything they can get their hands on, and have the means to do so.
With everything to lose, and attempting to remain compliant with the law, the law abiding people are hobbled, are told they cannot own the same weapons the criminals possess, and are left 'outgunned', as the police are so fond of saying. The exceptions in those laws are for police and active duty military, and leave the citizen in the worst legal position, even if they manage to obtain permits, etc.
Every new law only puts the citizenry who comply at a greater disadvantage. This is why that Right of the People was not to be infringed. Every citizen who quietly fails to comply for the purpose of being better armed, risks losing all they own and being branded a criminal. Anyone who might possess arms which do not comply with present law where they are is either forced to move, to run the risk, or surrender items they will never get back--to forcibly divest themselves of property without compensation or with little compensation without having ever been convicted of a crime.
Moving target gun laws only create a new class of criminal every time something else is banned.
We will really find out in a couple of weeks when the bump stock ban, a ban based on a lie, goes into effect.
The bump stock does not materially alter the function of the weapon, it just makes pulling the trigger once per round a very efficient process. It does not permit the weapon to fire fully automatic (one squeeze of the trigger causing the weapon to fire more than once), but enables the user to squeeze the trigger at an optimal rate, once per round fired, making the rate of fire faster than the user might be able to do without it.
Considering the questionable nature of the incident, the general absence of reports, and serious questions about multiple shooters, the Las Vegas incident leaves a lot of questions in the minds of average gun owners who are going to be affected by this legal fallout from the incident.
Are they going to just give them up? Without compensation?--and some 500,000 of them have been sold since the devices went on the market in 2010.