Thanks for posting the link (Patrick Henry), an excellent, interesting essay.
Thank you, it was a lot of work.
The original post from which it came, Skinning Cats: Legal Means to Disarm the Second Amendment, was well received here at FR. Between it and its successor on my page, it has probably had 15,000 readers over the years.
The rest of the articles on the articles page to which it links should pique your interest as well. Together, the first three explain the regulatory tyranny we see today as a resource racketeering system analogous to the 18th Century mercantilism our Constitutionally limited government was (supposedly) intended to preclude.