Indeed. The moment a people let their government disarm them they become a permanent class of serfs existing by the whims and pleasure of that same government, period. We saw this happen in real time with the Australians.
Many of them never had gun rights to begin with. And this even predates firearms. A peasant could not possess a crossbow, under penalty of death. Couldn't have a man on foot given parity with an armored knight on horseback.
