It's not just the weapons. It's the culture around them and attitudes towards them that need to go.
Right now, they are the magical totems, fetish objects that bestow a (narrow and mostly illusory) sense of freedom on their advocates. They make them feel capable and righteous.
I'm not naive. I do not believe meaningful gun control is possible in the US without a massive cultural shift. I don't know what could start such a shift. Dead children aren't enough.
'Vinyl is the poor man's art collection'.
Let in the refugees, deport the racists.