When the NRA's Instant Check was finally put into effect in some states it stopped more felons from buying guns in one week than the Brady Bill did in nearly a decade. I went to wander off to the range with my XP-100 target pistol, carrying it in my car like I used to do and was informed by a friend that I had just violated a federal law and that it was a felony to have that monster single shot target pistol in the car unless it was in a locked container. So, if I someday just forget to lock my new pistol box before heading to the range I would then be guilty of a federal felony. The same exacty gun can have a few ounces of wood removed from its stock and become an illegal assault weapon. It took some of the finest and most expensive handguns and target pistols off the market as well.
Guns are a sort of tool just like a screwdriver or a chisel.
The gun can not do anything that the person handling it does not make it do. If a gun is used in a crime then triple the mandatory prison term. If a gun is discharged in the course of a crime then make it a mandatory life term. If I turn on the TV or go to a movie I can see dozens of murders and shootings and other attrocities in a single evening. In real life I have never once seen anything like the horrors I can view on TV or at the movies.