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Your premise if fundamentally flawed. Most of the Federal laws we're talking about, which can comrpise 100s of thousands of crimes, do not have any "intent" element. You break it, even without intending too, you are guilty. There is no "willful" element. You either imported fish in plastic or you did not. You got lost in a blizzard on your snowmobile and crossed an invisible line, or you did not. Your intent, even your intent to be lawful in the face of a criminal code so vast nobody can know it, is utterly irrelevant.
This is becoming "beating a dead horse". You have a lot of gun owners, a majority, who are never going to hear you. They do not believe in rights, until it effects them. They will tell you it's not dark at night before they give this up. Right up until it effects them. Then they scream but it's too late then <shrug>