It is irrelevant.
At least the SFB’s didn’t try and push gun control as the usual answer.
This time.
That will come, but indirectly. I expect that manufacture and import will be made illegal or just commercially impossible, probably before the end of next summer. I think the Revolution will be at a climax or even complete next Summer.
Before they knew what hit them, Governor Haley quickly turned this into a referendum on the Confederate battle flag, sucking all the air out of the gun controllers' sails.