I have no faith the so called do-gooders have any intentions of stopping at a reasonable point.
You should have
absolute faith that they will stop at a reasonable point! The trouble is that their idea of a "reasonable" point is no guns for the peons (us).
They seldom have a problem with guns in the hands of the people who work for them. Although there have been gun control laws passed which do not exempt the military, police and private armed security, the majority of gun control laws DO exclude these people.
Somehow, I just never saw the validity in thinking guns in the hands of people who wear a uniform /badge, or who's paycheck you sign, to protect your elitist butt, are good, and guns in my hands to protect my "great unwashed" butt are a bad thing.
Uncle Sam put a machine gun in my hands when I was still a teenager. They told me it was a good thing. Now, here I am, decades later, and not only can I NOT have that exact same machinegun, I cannot even have something that looks like it, but isn't, depending on what state I live in. AND good ol Uncle Sam is STILL putting machineguns into the hands of teenagers today. Without a background check every time the weapon is issued. Without CLEO sign off, without the $200 transfer tax and tax stamp, and without months of wait while the paperwork is processed.
If you wanted to stop the US military from being a functional force, all you would have to do is to require them to follow ALL of the gun control laws that non military people have to follow.