Two things:

1) Gun control laws only affect law abiding citizens anyways, some crackhead probably doesn't own a legal gun and even if he does he doesn't care about the laws.

2)They don't need new gun control laws they just need to enforce the existing ones.

Abaddon my dad has an m1 garand also, he used to be a gun collector at one point he had over 400 then he sold most of them off when my parents got divorced but he probably still has a couple dozen. I go down to my brothers house he has a little over 100 acres and we set up a nice range in a shale pit in the side of the mountain. He has to AR15's one preban one post ban but both are very nice.