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The way the lobbying works here (or used to work, before the NRA went bankrupt) is that any candidate who knows about guns, or represents a district with lots of gun ownership, can't be involved at all in any gun control laws without losing the NRA's support. Therefore, the only people left to write the gun control laws are the ones who know nothing about it.
You can have lots of gun knowledge without owning guns or having NRA support.
I agree, but is this hypothetical person electable in either party right now? Probably not, which is why the gun laws we get are generally poor.
Gun toting liberals exist just as LGBTQ+ conservatives exist. Also, it's not incumbent upon legislators to know everything about everything that could be legislated upon. This is why legislators have staff.
The problem is most(not all) people who care to actually learn about guns generally oppose gun control.
And most (not all) people who care to actually learn about gambling, or street racing, or cooking meth oppose regulating their interest. This is a meaningless universal truth about most hobbies, made even less relevant because a politician isn't picking a person at random from their supporters to help them figure out a subject, they're going to the "not all" people who care to learn and are willing to help.
This is the same argument cryptobros trot out whenever crypto legislation is brought up. These aren't complex subjects only a long term user could possibly understand. A gun is a relatively simple tool and a legislative aid could garner more than enough expertise in a couple weeks to understand anything necessary for regulation. The real reason this argument is made isn't because they want better and smarter regulation, it's because they want to argue that all regulation is illegitimate so they can keep playing with their toys unimpeded.
That's because nobody who knows anything about guns would ever support the Democrats effort to ban guns, which they label as "commonsense gun control"