For people who don’t understand how lawful firearm owners feel their rights are being infringed by the laws as they exist let us take a look at a world where the right to free speech has the same rules on it that the right to keep and bear arms currently has.
So you are planning to give a speech (or just talk to your friends) about a topic that is important to you. So you get up in front of the people, assemble your speech papers and introduce yourself. Then before you speak a man comes up and does a background check on you running your name and social through a national database to show that you have no history of using speech badly or are crazy (the people you are speaking out against get to judge both of these things). In some states you are required to wait seven days before speaking even though the check takes five minutes.
The check goes through and you are cleared to speak after you write the check for the privilege of having been checked. Now you start speaking. "Welcome." "I". "am." "glad." "to." "see." "so." "many." "people."...you see you didn’t pay the 200 dollar fee, fill out multiple forms and give them fingerprints (perhaps in this case voiceprints) in order to speak at a rate greater than one word per breath. Luckily you did pay the fee, finger printing, and filing out forms in order to use words bigger than the government feels you should use (because they could be dangerous to the government – words like "quagmire" ,"debacle", "individual rights" and the like) and to turn the volume of your voice down to a somber whisper for part of your speech. So you continue "gathered." "here." "for." "this." "noble."...then you are taken off the stage and cuffed and jailed.
Turns out you were using parts of speech that could be assembled into a statement that can be spoken at more than one word per breath. These parts of speech are called "letters" or "words" and can be assembled to be the very things you promised not to do on that first form you signed! It doesn’t really matter what they are called because the agency that monitors speech has regulations written so vaguely it cannot even say what they mean when on the stand and has successfully jailed people for miss-pronouncing words accidentally even when all their forms were filled out. This absurdity doesn’t matter thought because they are the only agency capable of testifying and who has authority in this matter. You are found guilty, made a felon, imprisoned and fined and forbidden from using speech in the future.
I hope looking at it like this gives a little insight into how many owner’s of firearms feel they get a raw deal not only from our government in regard to their rights but in regards to people who have no idea what has to occur or what even the words they use in the debate to restrict rights mean.