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Liberty makes a good point. The guns become useless except for a hypothetical 'revolution'.

You cannot compete with them, hunt with them and using it for self-defense will have all sort of risks of jury bias and charges for you as having the gun. You stand the risk of exposure if your ex decides to screw you, your kid babbles at school, a gun friend secretly doesn't like you, there is a fire and the fire folk find it, etc. Maybe the local sheriff is pro but the state troopers may not be and the Feds wouldn't be.

The accessory industry is destroyed. Red dot sights, scopes, all sorts of aftermarket gadgets are kaput.

Thus, it is nice to chortle about having the gun buried in the basement or bragging you will tell the law it fell off your fishing boat. It's just virtue signaling to try to avoid the disaster a ban will be. State bans will increase as states turn purple or rampages lead to moral panics even among so-call gun supports such as Dump the Bump Trump. Will SCOTUS save the day with Gorsuch and Kavanaugh as golden boys- that is an unknown empirical question.Will they even take a case? Will Roberts not go with existing precedent which seems to support the limits in the lower courts, given vagueness of Heller.

So noncompliance isn't anything to be happy about as far as a really positive outcome.