This has been going on for a lot longer than these particular idiots have been in power.
If anything, it started with the 1936 NFA, and has gone on almost uninterrupted ever since. FDR, LBJ, RR, and even SCOTUS have snatched up rights wholesale, and now the Shrub has just outdone them all in one fell swoop.
And to think i voted for this idiot. I guess that makes ME the idiot afterall...