Its the old liberal tactic. If they cannot ban guns, then they'll ban certain guns. If they cannot ban certain guns, they will then throw up every exotic catch 22 that they can conceive of to ensure that while you can LEGALLY own a gun, they will make you work to own it.
After reading her blog I suppose we should be grateful that she need not sail to the Potomac and fight the Kracken , after which she must take the tooth of the slain Kracken to the gates of Sauron's Castle, whereupon the dragons tooth must then be used to smite the Ring of Hoplophobia on the Quest to Free the Scrolls of the Constitution and receive as a prize the Talisman of the Sig Sauer.