It is not only control, but one must look at the revenue. The government, local, state, federal have to fleece the populace for their nose wetting vig, and more laws gives them a twofer. The reason to exist and the revenue to enforce it.Absolutely and its just another "law" in a long line of them that is all about making it a hassle to own and carry firearms. Death of a thousand cuts. Same with smoking laws over the past 30 years. Drug, seatbelt, helmet laws, low flow toilets etc. that just make life more of a hassle and give the government more control. Those comparisons are what has driven me to "constitutional carry" in the past ten years. I don't believe in background checks anymore either as a good thing. Its just one more law, often a hypocritical one that government holds the people to but not themselves.
So, maybe we should all just start breaking laws like the loaded mag law and take it to the courts?
We can keep running from state to state but this encroachment is going to finally strangle all of us.