These are very reasonable tactics, if guns are just toys, and if shooting is just a vice. If guns are useful tools, then such laws become tools of oppression (by denying them to the poor—historically with the explicit intention of denying them to members of ethnic minorities).

I used to come down on the side of useful tool, but I'm beginning to think that their practical usefulness is so limited as to make this a very minor concern.

I still don't like the idea that only rich people should be able to have guns.