This is the method argument writ huge: it doesn't matter if the stick bow wins over the compound, or the traditional ML over the inline, or the bolt action over the semi-auto if there isn't a right to bear arms. If the antis succeed in shaving off one type of arm at a time, they will continue to do so until there are none. They are never satisfied, and if you think they will be, well...
Take a look at England and Australia if you want to see onion peeling in action, and well advanced at that.
The really twisted thing to this whole situation is the "controllers" don't care what you do or don't do or like or don't like, they want to control *you*. Your guns prevent that, at least in their minds.
I shot my first M-16 in 1969 and used it in Viet Nam in '70 before there were all these semi-automatic options in the market. All this noise because the rifles have a look about them: their function is the same as models introduced in 1903. This year I am going to configure a 6.8 SPC AR-15 variant and use it for at least one deer hunt.
Of course I will also use my '06, and my ML rifles for other hunts, and maybe find a hunt for a crossbow.
So don't look down on others because of their method, embrace them all and remain free.
jim