Look at what happened in Colorado.
Yes, they had recalls and such but the laws aren't repealed yet and they are having to fight in order to gain lost ground. Seemed to have come out of nowhere.
All it takes is 1 election to flip Texas blue (and have a devastating impact here and across the nation).
Preemption language only stops laws stricter than standing state laws from being passed, it does not stop a state law from being passed saying your 1911 suddenly takes illegal hi capacity magazines.
So in my view, we are never more than 1 election cycle away. Having laws in place to make it more difficult to ram crap down our throats before we can put a stop to it would be a huge advantage should we catch a bad cycle.
I don't disagree with that. How do you work through what seems to be the challenge of the state legislature's MO of taking baby steps in regards to an issue? I'm on board with you but from all I've read about how the leg. works it's hard to eat the whole hamburger at once. Instead we have to keep ordering plates of sliders.