[RickS]

Rich people aren't scared of plastic guns, that's completely unrelated. This is drone legislation in disguise. They passed a bunch of import laws on new parts, motors, etc from overseas within the last year or so too. The US is wholly unprepared for the drone warfare of 2020, let alone 2030, and is playing catchup, but cannot come out and say as much, because then everyone would get ideas. Just as "think of the children" is understood by all to be a fabricated excuse for what is actually "systematically deanonymize and surveil all inconvenient adults", this is using a less objectionable goal they don't care about as a foothold for a thing that would be difficult to argue for directly.