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It's not about logic or effective policy; it's about incrementalism. You pass (or dictate by EO) what you can, whenever you can, and these small seemingly insignificant actions are never effectively challenged or indeed repealed by future administrations.

Each one creates a precedent that then provides leverage to justify future seemingly insignificant actions, and 20yrs later you have nothing left at all.

Consider this EO banning reimport of US made military firearms going unchallenged. A year later there is another EO expanding this for non-US military firearms, because, well that just makes sense right ? We stopped US-made reimports last year and since 99% of the public were behind that, it makes sense to do the same for similarly old, unsafe, poor quality European firearms right ? There you go, that's the whole 'C&R loophole' shut down.

What possible rationale is there for the EO on trusts except to introduce the issue into the public mindset, which then becomes leverage for, say, an EO banning trusts from having any NFA items. Because we already banned felons with an EO a year ago, and since 99% of the public were behind that, we now need to shut down those trusts that felons had already set up to own hundreds of machine guns and hand grenades. Hence another unchallenged EO wraps up the 'NFA-items registered to trusts loophole'. And so on until it's all gone.

"...with only a few exceptions such as for museums," - this gives legitimacy to exceptions via back-door deals with the administration, in the same way that Obamacare is law unless you are connected enough to get a waiver saying it doesn't apply to you.