I heard John Lott on a radio show the other day. He was teaching at Chicago University at the same time as Obama, and talked to him in passing a few times. The first time he introduced himself Obama said, “Oh, you’re the gun guy?”
Lott said, “Yeah, I guess I am.”
Obama said, “I don’t think people should be allowed to own guns”, then turned around and walked away.
What more do you need to know?
That's Obama advertising that he's a doctrinaire Marxist. Supremacy of the State, dictatorship of the Proletariat, all that.
Even Machiavelli told European tyrants to let their people have firearms and other weapons as a bond of trust between ruler and ruled.