Problem is, the vast bulk of the NRA's money comes from gun owners, since it's our group, the manufacturers' group is the Nation Shooting Sports Foundation (htt

Problem is, the vast bulk of the NRA's money comes from gun owners, since it's our group, the manufacturers' group is the Nation Shooting Sports Foundation (http://www.nssf.org/ http://www.nssf.org/). The NRA's membership would at minimum double, and donations to them would rise exponentially; there was a hint of that after Sandy Hook. I don't see how you and wisty deny that people on my side would turn our current cold civil war into a hot shooting war. We've read our 20th Century history, we know the potential end games for us and our families. We haven't been buying guns and ammo at historically unprecedented rates just to bury them. Then again, you at least acknowledge a constitutional amendment would be required to do this legally, and that's not currently foreseeable. E.g. starting in 1986 with Florida, about the same number of states that would be required to pass an amendment enacted legal "shall issue" concealed carry regimes, which now cover 42 or so states, with the Federal courts only forcing Illinois and maybe California and Hawaii (that's still being litigated), see the first two country maps at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concealed_carry_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concealed_carry_in_the_United_...