"my main point is about the loss of gun rights at the federal level. ... I have a feeling that somewhere down the line we'll be taken the way of our enlightened neighbors in Canada, the UK, Australia, etc. We've already taken the first steps."
We've already taken the first steps to roll all of that back. The federal Assault Weapons Ban is dead. D E A D. Dead.
The federal ban against arming commercial pilots is likewise dead.
We're voting on new bills this year to prevent the gun-banners from suing our gun manufacturers out of business (needed tort reform).
We've rolled back, federally, the various state, county, and city anti-gun laws that were being used to arrest gun owners from merely driving through certain areas.
...And state after state (now 46 out of 50) has passed CCW laws in our favor!
We are losing ground on every other issue, though - and it is only because the politicians FEAR us gun owners that they are restoring our rights, not because they believe in firearms ownership.
The right to shoot back at the government when it steps over the line is the most important of all, but if we could organize on behalf of other rights, in a monolithic bloc, the way we have on behalf of RKBA, we might be able to reverse the depradations of our other rights by the statist scum, also.