H.R.121 - To provide for the hiring of 200 additional Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents and investigators to enforce gun laws.
H.R.125 - To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for a 7-day waiting period before a semiautomatic firearm, a silencer, armor piercing ammunition, or a large capacity ammunition magazine may be transferred.
H.R.127 - To provide for the licensing of firearm and ammunition possession and the registration of firearms, and to prohibit the possession of certain ammunition.
H.R.130 - To require the safe storage of firearms and ammunition, and to require the investigation of reports of improper storage of firearms or ammunition.
H.R.167 - To prohibit the transfer of a firearm at a gun show by a person who is not a federally licensed firearms dealer.
They have been inching to ban guns. They don't want the people to have any power to fight back.
Guns aren't power; they're a force multiplier, a tool. And like any other tool, guns don't mean shit if you have no will to use them. And will comes from a hungry belly. The comfortable don't revolt, even if they're told to shut up and take it. And even now, it's still comfortable. Look forward a couple of years, when the Dempression puts people in bread lines and has them living in mass shelters.
Additionally, people don't need guns to overthrow tyranny. It makes it easier, but if it ever gets to the point where millions are dead-set on resisting, boomsticks will be forceably acquired from the tyrants, regardless. And until then they'll use bricks, rocks, sticks, hammers, pitchforks, molotovs and other IEDs, etc., etc., etc.
Banning guns could be one of the best things they could do to accelerate a response, because they're just going to criminalize even more people, make even more radicals out of the peasants they so deeply detest.