J. Clarke wrote:

BTW, if you want to change something, you don't directly attack
something, you encapsulate it.

I'm certain you don't need an explanation.

So tell us how this "encapsulation" would work.

It seems the anti-gun crowd has recognized they won't get what they want in
the foreseeable future. I heard Diane Feinstein say as much recently, they
just don't have the votes in Congress because too many voters back home
wouldn't take kindly to sweeping bans such as Feinstein is on record as
supporting. So instead they're using the death of a thousand cuts method.
E.g. if you can't outright ban guns then make it a pain in the ass to buy
ammo; require training courses with difficult tests, permits, registration
(all with steep fees); require inspections of home storage facilities and so
on and so forth until owning a firearm is so much trouble many people just
give up.

Similar tactics have been used in other countries, just keep raising the
height of the hoops people have to jump through and eventually most of them
won't try anymore. That's the sort of thing Washington DC was talking about
doing right after the recent DC v. Heller decision. Many similar
regulations have already been upheld by lower courts post-Heller, so those
who figure Heller has changed the whole ballgame need to take a closer look.
That decision will end total bans such as DC and Chicago have tried (with
little effect on crime), but it won't result in many local, state and
federal regulations and restrictions being scrapped. In fact, and perhaps
ironically, the recent 9th Circuit decision that the 2nd Amendment does
apply to state and local governments nonetheless upheld the right of a
county to prohibit firearms (and thus a gun show) from county property. The
Devil is in the details, and the Heller ruling doesn't mean your local govt.
can't put *any* firearms restrictions or regulations in place.

I think some regulations make sense, safe storage laws for example. But
when such laws are designed and enforced in such a way as to discourage
firearms ownership rather than ensure public safety, well that's another
story.