Its not that the CCP is allowing the people to think for themselves its just that oppression can only last for so long before the people get wise and start to stand up for themselves. The reason guns are banned in China is not to protect the people from hurting themselves, its to keep them from making a stand against the government.
Funny, isn't that the same reason that Hillary wants to ban them here?
If these people start making rifles as well as shotguns, it could get very difficult for the CRP to maintain it's iron-fisted rule over the country. What then?