Notice all of those are states where you can buy and possess a firearm without a government permission slip? We are in a sticky situation here in MA. Shirts like that at public hearings here would of course get the same response from the anti gunners looking to find out who they were, except here some percentage of them would then lose their license due to nonsense suitability. Some would be fine if the chief of police didn't care, but how many are going to be willing to roll the dice knowing that they will be targeted and lose their rights?
This won't be high profile loss of rights where you will be a martyr and people might rally behind it, it will be you getting a visit from the PD some morning with a letter revoking your LTC and them walking in to take everything you have. Maybe you win in court sometime later, and maybe you get your stuff out of PD lockup before the bonded thefthouse gets it, but how many will have that luck?
Those other states activists are actually virtually totally safe. They might get hassled by local police if they are known, they might have some people bitch at them about how they are "Threatening" because the premise of not complying implies violence, but they will not lose their ability to even touch a gun. We aren't defeating anything here by voting bloc because numbers. We surely won't stop anything by veiled threat of noncompliance for the same reason, their position is "Great, we would love the photo op of taking guns by force from "Domestic terrorists" please don't comply."
No good, they would co-opt it. The media would paint you all as gun control advocates who want "No more" gun violence. By the time they were forced to retract (If ever) the damage would be done and nobody reads the third page story about how they were "Mistaken" and you actually support "The other side" while still not being clear about who or what you support.
