It is discredit all those evil gun shops and their owners in the media.
The move to cancel their license was made to grab another nation wide sound bite or headline and milk the publicity of the tragedy for as long as possible.
And it will scare the hell out of all other gun shop owners. They can move to Texas (And I hope they do). But the firearms license comes from the feds. The only way to stop this is by secession. Well, there’s another way but....