Edwardian I know what you state is true but the tin foil hat crowd will see nasty conspiracies everywhere because they always think that they do see them. I do not foresee confiscation of my guns, in my lifetime as being more than pipe dream of the anti gun people. What does concern me is the back door attempts to make it less enjoyable to have and shoot guns. But a frontal assault will be doomed to failure even by Executive Order, Government regulation or outright gun grabbing. Heck we spent weeks debating where a person can and can not go to pee for Gods sake. Revoking one of the first ten amendments should be just about out of question.