Gun control is aimed at the law abiding, since they are the only ones who obey gun laws any way. And one of the purposes of gun control is to create barriers to prevent the legal purchase of firearms. Bureaucrats set up hoops for you to jump through, and then when you dot all your 'i's and cross all your 't's, they simply refuse to do their job; effectively robbing you of your civil rights.

Take Illinois for instance. They recently enacted legislation requiring gun owners to get government permission before selling guns at gun shows. Gun rights advocates claimed that the law was intended to get rid of gun shows. The gun control lobby claims they were just closing a loophole in the law. Any doubt you might have had about the law's intention was erased last weekend when local authorities failed to show up to facilitate the background checks. Law abiding citizens were effectively prevented from exercising their rights, because the government bureaucracy broke down.

People at the gun show were unable to sell guns, which seems to have been the whole idea.