The problem is they will promise to let us all go to work and live our lives if we just register our guns and pay huge "fees" for the privilege of owning them. And the fees will increase, and then "unregistered firearms" will be confiscated while people are at work. There might be a few shoot-outs with "domestic terrorists". They don't want gulags - conservatives pay lots of taxes and will accept higher and higher taxes just for the promise to be left alone to work and live.