The NRA has been around for quite a long time already...
These experts have been around for some time as well...
But what do we have to show for that effort? I would say that we are losing the war, though we might win some battles. Right now, status quo is the best for the NRA. It allows them to keep their member contributions up, but where are the results? Where are the rollbacks of the bad gun control laws? Where are the rollbacks of the GCA68, NFA34, AWB94, etc?
What is feared here is that Gorski might succeed.
Every pro-2A activist will need to make their own determination if Gorski/Silveira vs Lockyer is good or not. In my book, lack of action all these past years brings us to where we are at now, where the rights I enjoy now is definitely less than the rights my ancestors enjoyed previously.
Well the GOPA of the 1980s did roll back some of the provisions of the GCA68, and (temporarily) inhibited some of the worst of the BATF's abuses. It also protected those transporting firearms through arms hostile jurisdicitions. This was at the expense of prohibition of new production machineguns even for folks willing to pay the $200 tax and go through all the hoops, assumning that their local laws and local CLEO would allow it.