I think that you might be way low on this.
After Sandy Hook, several states enacted mandatory registration laws.
Those laws were not very popular.
In fact, in both NY and CT, compliance was so sparse that the state just sort of let the whole thing go rather than admit that most of the gun owners in their states were de facto felons.
Agreed. The idea is to present it in a very believable form - then add your point.
Compliance with the NY SAFE act is about 4%.