Even if it means it's "ready for him", it doesn't fucking matter.  Any such confiscation would be against the 2nd amendment and therefore unconstitutional to begin with.  The 2nd amendment exists precisely to empower the populace to shoot anyone who tries to take a legally owned firearm from them. The congressman's response was completely justified. It's really no different than if Beto had said "hell yes, I'm gonna kidnap your wife."    Or if the Chinese president said "we're going to take the americans' guns". All three statements deserve the same response: "fucking try". One leads to the other anyhow.