It's called, turning a right into a privilege, until that privilege can then be removed at some future time. I agree with your assessment.
1. Require insurance. (Camel's nose.)
2. Base the premiums on the type of gun, the degree of danger it presents.
3. Require owners to certify what kinds of guns they have to make sure they are not cheating on #2.
4. Require the insurance agent to inspect the guns because folks keep cheating.
5. Require the agents to record makes, models, and serial numbers to make sure they aren't cheating.
6. Require that the government keep this paperwork for a short period of time and not allow it to be used for anything else.
7. Increase the amount of time the records are kept.
8. Allow the use of the records to help investigate crimes against children. After all, it's for the chill'en.
9. Well, as long as we have the data, why not use it to solve other crimes.
10. Gun crime rises because of a cyclic downturn in the economy, and all crime goes up when the economy goes down. So guns are collected from "at risk" gun owners (unemployed, poor, otherwise unfortunate).
11. Gun crime goes up because those who need protection most have had their guns taken away "for their own good." So more gun owners need to be protected from their guns.
12. Well, heck, let's take 'em all. After all, we know where they are.
13. Well, heck, let's take other rights.
14. Well, heck, let's take 'em all. (Camel's ass.)