I'm split on this one mostly because I've lived under the shackles of infringed rights for too long.
Part of me is like they're afraid of the big evil "assault weapons / weapons of mass destruction / machine guns", but wouldn't bitch so loudly over a handgun in a holster which is just complete fear-driven crazy and unwillingness to understand the detailed differences between reality and their make-believe understanding of exactly what kind of weapon an AR is and that's something we need to work on through education.
Part of me however, is well, they're entrenched and never going to change their minds because they're close-minded and myopic, and have plenty of others who agree with them so they have no reason in their minds to want to change. And because of that, I fear that if/when enough of them rise up they'll eventually either get their way with a complete ban, or work their way through to it like happens all across the country these days (either MDA/Bloomberg/etc... or how they're doing it in California with the microstamping, and the 10 bullet max law and the bullet button law...)
And because of THAT fear I have, I wonder whether it really is helpful to do it as a political statement where they're most fearful (such as airports - TSA has done a great job of making them so fearful of course, yet it really is where they are most fearful regardless of the cause). I mean, we have the right, and now Arizona acknowledges the right. So why push people's buttons purely to make a political statement on this scale?
I'm not against the concept of or your right to carry what you want, where you want. Just trying to walk through my own understanding overall. Because unlike the antis,I'm actually open-minded and am posting here directly and outright for feedback to help broaden my understanding, or at least have dialogue with people who won't condemn me for my own personal 2A RKBA views...