That is basically the focus. Make the gun business so risky and costly to do that the supply lines begin to dry up.

There are huge factions within the government that just want to have a state-run gun industry for the most part that would more closely resemble how it was up to WW2. Companies that sold guns to the government rarely sold them to the public, and the government usually owned the manufacturing facility one way or another.

There are some changes coming down in small arms and equipment technology that they feel current laws are "insufficient to handle" but if the government were to gain total control of the manufacturing through a number of means, they could do a lot to keep the new technology out of civilian hands. Part of that is to attack and try to capture control of those firms which are capable of making and selling the stuff to the general public.

The other thing you have to realize is that the Justice Department is the primary shareholder in UNICOR, the prison industry conglomerate that effectively uses the law enforcement agencies to gain ownership of slave workers. UNICOR already has a lot of government contracts for a lot of stuff and has moved well into Defense Department contracts.

The security protocols can even be put in place for the manufacture of small arms, especially next generation stuff where you are unlikely to have ammunition circulating around where weapon components are made.

There is another way this can go when the government gets mean and goes to entrap and attack large corporations who are quite capable of defending themselves. Some corporations actually do it. Unfortunately for the 21 guys who got indicted the gun companies are probably not as likely to use that option on their behalf, but the flip side of that foreign business is sure, you pay bribes up to a certain point.

Then the foreign government decides to get greedy, and that usually means someone gets "arrested" on trumped up charges and the government "asks" for large sums of money, contract renegotiation, other unreasonable demands engineered to change the real structure of what is going on.

Not long after that is when the ex-Delta force guys start showing up. Ross Perot would be flat broke by now if he were not pulling that sort of stuff with the Iranians back in the 1970s.

He thought he could play with the big bad fed in the 1990s and apparently got intimidated out of it. I don't think you could call him the "last" of America's corporate tough guy tycoons, but there was a point where Clinton and the Justice department actually violated Ross Perot's personal third amendment rights by getting a court order that he had to house the IRS and other agents who were running surveillance against him. On his own property, in his own house. The IRS agent was to constantly monitor Perot for any possible tax law violations, but had been trained to monitor him for any possible law violations at all and then alert his supervisors of it.

Even now, he surrounds himself with a level of security some national leaders don't have, and if some crew of feddie punks steps up to lay hands on him, they are quite likely to get splattered.