I thought the point of the right to bear arms was about freedom. If you need consent from a sheriff and it's based on their feelings, it's giving them freedom to take rights away.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a US citizen and guns are banned here, but the main reason for it seems to be playing out, and taking those freedoms away could be massively dangerous. More so than the threat of gun violence right now. How could any opposition defend themselves being shipped off to El Salvador en masse if a secretary of state things you contradict foreign policy goals?