He must be like one of those Elmer Fudd gun owners, you know, the type who believe "sporting purposes" are the only real reason anyone should own a firearm. They're basically museum curators, fondling their engraved and gold inlaid over/under duck guns, looking down at the loud rabble with their "assault rifles" and semi-auto pistols.
It's another element of the neo-feudal social and political order that has sprung up around us, this "guild" mentality. You see it everywhere. Self-serving credentialism, designed to keep certain pursuits monopolized and accessible only through their graces.
He and others use the reduction-to-absurdity argument in favor of gun control: "So you'd be fine with convicted felons owning guns then? That's a type of restriction too you know." As if this is the same as restrictions on the wider law abiding citizen. The convicted felon has already abrogated the responsibilities that come with rights; the law abiding citizen has not. Besides, if a convicted felon is determined to acquire a gun he will. I think there's a philosophical issue with this too -- I'm a bit uneasy with the willingness of people to accept virtually any imposition if it's targeted at some despised group, such as felons. In theory hasn't a felon paid his debt to society after his prison term? If he cannot be trusted to resume life as a citizen, then perhaps he hasn't really paid his debt to society? Once people are comfortable with this or that exception, it just means they'll start broadening the scope of who's a felon.