So ATF and IRS starts hiring again. Nothing like an army of minimum wage federal employees handling your taxes. 
Looks good on the unemployment numbers as well.
Fienstein and others are setting bargaining positions from which to work. Maybe No-Grandfathering and NFA won't work, but they're willing to work from there down.
What's our position? Status Quo? We loose. It's why we've lost in the past.
The antis have made it clear there end-game is ZERO guns in private hands. ZERO. NADA. The Washington Times even said it in 2004. The AWB may not really do any good, but it's a stepping stone towards more gun control. (paraphrase)
So our position should be roll back of NFA and everything since. We'll work on bargaining from there.....for the time being.
And no I don't think we should use celebrities. We need to make new celebrities out of those who've been there. Those who've defended themselves and others. That's who Fluke was, an "every women" (at least in the liberals eyes) whom they made into a celebrity.
That's what I've been talking about .
We have the numbers in members of the public who stand to lose several hundred $ worth of real property if we let the antis win.
All we need is aggressive leadership who have vision and the will to win.
You want to keep machine guns registered ?
OK, but it will cost you passage of nation wide CCW.
You want to keep registering SBR's ?
OK, but only if you allow import of the South Korean M1's
You want to keep the machine gun registry closed ?
Only if you remove silencers from the NFA, hearing protection is a health issue, it's for the children.