OH, and Registration is a key to Confiscation. They aren't going to up and ban your guns on the spur of the moment. Too many Feds would die trying to confiscate the guns.
1) They regulate the sales of guns. For example, closing the "gun show loophole" so that all sales are through Dealers.
2) They pass a law requiring dealers to notify the locals/state of any sales.
3) They pass a law banning some cockamamy made up type of gun that is the favorite of Drug Dealers. I.E. "Hi-Powered .50 Caliber Sniper Assault Rifle"
4) They use their records to find anybody who doesn't comply with the ban. Those people are arrested and the rest of the gun community says it is their own fault for not complying like good little sheeple.
5) They pass a lawrequiring owners to be liscensed or obtain permits.
6) They arrest anybody who does not or cannot obtain a lisence. Again, the gun community blames the gun owner.
7) They pass a law requiring the registration of firearms.
8) Again, non-compliers are arrested. And again, the gun community blames the gun owner.
9) Requirements are tightened and discretion broadened to make it harder to get a lisence or permit.
10) They make it impossible to take your gun outside your home, except under limited circumstances.
11) Those violating will be arrested and the gun community will blame the gun owner.
12) More and more classes of "Favorite Guns Of Drug Dealers" will be banned.
13) More people will be arrrested and the gun community will continue to blame the gun owners.
14) The few owners still left will be ordered to surrender their guns.
15) Their crappy guns will be no match for Automatic Weapons, etc...being utilized by the police when their homes get raided.
16) Many gun owners will die, the rest will end up in prison.
17) The gun community will wonder how it came to this meanwhile forgetting they condoned it by condeming those who fought back.