I actually think this could occur.

Sporting firearms manufacturers are relatively small companies for the most part, and wouldn't be too much of a burden on the taxpayers to buy out and liquidate for the benefit of the nation.

This last sentence is an attempt to dive into the cesspool of Barney Frank's and Chris Dodd's minds, a literary masterpiece of brevity and clarity {if I do say so myself} that any Democrat Party Committeeman should copy and paste and save for a future fundraiser.