Well, it's starting.
The small arms industry in the US is going to largely collapse. Even those with major, federal contracts are starting to have financial woes, especially since small arms have the worst margins in any ordinance-related manufacture.
Both large corporations and some entire industries, as a block, are moving against anyone even remotely associated with firearms. They don't even have to make or sell firearms. If they are associated, they are targeted. It's been a mass effort that is very well coordinated, and it's going to suffocate all the major, 2nd Amendment supporters.
What will be left will be sparse, small mom'n pop outfits that will come and go as they face litigation and issues from well funded organizations. As Bernie Sanders pegged it before, the end of gun manufacturing in the US. And we already have bans on most things from outside the US.
Which means the right will be difficult to exercise in most of the US.
I have to give the Progressives major credit ...
And Reason.COM for pointing this was going to happen years ago ...
Totalitarian societies start -- not regimes,
again, societies start (people blame the Nazis and Hitler, but it started before them in Germany, as a society) start -- by uniting behind an idea, and
then suffocating any and all counters -- often by
blaming 1 entity, and anyone who associates with them -- by just flat out repeating falsehoods until they stick. They go after emotions and fears, ensuring then logic goes out the window with
their statements that defy science and statistics.
Ironically, I just had a conversation at work with someone here in Alabama that is just spewing things. I couldn't get him to understand that semi-automatic actions in pistols and rifles are similar, or in some cases, exactly the same, and are not military, selective fire capable.
He had also never heard of the USCCA, while he couldn't stop talking about the NRA. He even had that information wrong. I just shook my head. The US media says it enough times, people start believe things that just aren't true.
This is how it ends. After guns it will be anything else the Progressives don't like. And then, decades from now, they'll break apart, and then start fighting themselves. I see abortion being one of the first things to go among Progressives.
This year, 2018, is the year I'm hanging up my civics, libertarianism and other things. All I'm doing with my engineering background, civics knowledge, use of AFT, CDC, FBI and GAO statistics, and other application of logic is upsetting most of my colleagues on-line.
It's 'herd mentality.' On an individual basis, I can reach people. But in a herd, or the increasing number of people who believe what they want to believe after hearing or reading it, and refuse to associate with anyone who disagrees, are becoming impossible to reach.
The 1st Amendment is next. The Press will be their own undoing, sadly enough. We've already thrown reporters in jail, and both Fox News and CNN have had endured the wraith of Presidents. A few media executives will look at it from a business and liability standpoint, and that will be that.
BTW, if you haven't seen it, highly recommend
Kill the Messenger (2014). Some might look at it as an anti-Reagan film, but it's actually an anti-US media one. The US government, in cohorts with the US media, has instigated far, far more organized and sustained crime than the everyday, average American citizen.
