Over the last several decades, RKBA advocates and 2nd amendment rights' supporters have seen the slow whitering of the RKBA and the slow withering and increased 'gun control' which will inevitably lead to an attempt at a total ban, a national "needs based" licensing system, a national registration database (some say it already exists; it certainly does in California), and perhaps a confiscation. Those enemies of freedom have nothing to lose; all they need is patience, while we lose the RKBA slowly over the years. Look where gun rights were prior to 1968 and compare that to where we are today.
Its true that some great progress has been made in the number of states that now have a "shall issue" CCW laws; these have been interpreted as a "turning of the tide" against private gun ownership. That is true to some extent, but when the government has totally changed the RIGHT to keep and bear to the PRIVILEGE to keep and bear, then "What the government giveth, the goverment can take away."
One federal law is all it would take to negate every state's CCW issuance.
The sunsetting will be more than symbolic; it will mark a REAL turning point in the right to arms, so basic to the liberty of the citizens of the Republic. And we cannot ever expect that any member of the RAT party leadership will ever stop trying to destroy the private ownership of guns. The minute those "fine gentlemen" regain control of government, they will once again start hammering the RKBA. So in the meantime, it would be nice to see a gesture of "rolling back" egregious gun laws on the part of the Repubo Party, the self-appointed "party of freedom".
If not? "I'll see you on the beach..."