Cross-posted from Castle Bansalot, since we can discuss this here but not there

[petronius]

9. That's not from the original source, it's from the DUer who posted it

Not worth paying any attention to, IMO.

As for the MM article, it seems that everyone in the post election days is eager to prove that their main issue won (or would have won) the race. The NRA may be overstating, but it would not surprise me at all if a more moderate/rational gun control tone from the Democrats could have peeled away the requisite ~100k votes in those swing states (all else being equal).

Gun control advocates crow over local victories, but it seems to me that some ever-more-stringent regulation in places like California--additional regulation unlikely to have any affect at all on crime or safety--is a poor trade for losses at the national (and by extension USSC) level...