The gun buyers "out there" have always behaved as though the 2nd Amendment acknowledged an individual right, thank God, and we have something in excess of 200 million individually owned firearms in this country. This, hopefully, will give some pause to potential invaders, as the wide individual ownership of firearms by the Swiss did the Germans during WWII.
Gun ownership is "a natural" here in the West and I'm both an owner and a holder of a permit to carry (which I very seldom do because I have no wish to give my clients an anxiety attack). I behave as though gun ownership is an individual right because I believe that it is and I will resist any practical effort to disarm me. If the Supreme Court should decide that guns are to be banned, then it is the Supreme Court that is wrong and I will act accordingly.
Guns, like books, are to me a matter of personal empowerment, and by this I mean self-determination, not power over others (which interests me not at all).
Thanks again for the fine post.