Going after a small fish like .223 is like going after the .25 and .32 and short barrel hand firearms.
They leave us with the short end of the stick.
They later can then say that the larger stuff is even worse and as they have already said the small stuff is bad enough......
ie. 'how hard is it after you ban small calibers etc to then sell the idea to and scare a soccer mom that bigger is badder and larger calibers are not worse'?
We are at a tipping point with this stuff.
That is why the chair is against the wall.