It is precisely the system you would want if your actual aim was no reduction of gun crime, and a further hinderance on the law abiding. That way, your perfunctorys can point at the law abiding, and proclaim the need for more draconian laws upon them, since, gun crime has not gone down.
The entire 1968 gun control mess mess should be repealed. It has done nothing save snare the law abiding.

Best,
Ted