If you don't offer helpful suggestions nothing will change
Basically the biggest problem I see is sort of a disconnect between the average gun owner who's a member of a club and the gun rights groups. Clubs also have very few "Know your rights" events.
Let me give you an example from my experience. I volunteered to help a group make connections with gun clubs. In my experience, gun clubs have the membership body that's required for rallies, letter writing and phone calls, coordinating some sort of effort, event planning, etc. At least at my club, it is possible to get people to help out and contribute to the cause. But no effort is made to politely contact the clubs and spread the message.
The group I was working with had the idea to simply email the Federated Sportsmen's. For the uninformed, Federated is the coordinating body for gun clubs in RI. The plan was to email Federated and ask for a contact list of names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses. That idea did not work.
I managed to contact four clubs before me and the group parted ways: Wallum Lake (where I'm a member), Fall River, Stony Brook, and Pine Tree. I did this in a couple weeks. With Stony Brook, I simply stopped by a local FFL and asked about the club. Wallum Lake was a matter of sending an email to the club's appropriate committee chair. I contacted FR and PT by sending their Facebook page a message each. This group had been trying to contact people for a year or more, and I managed to do this task in a couple weeks. I was also invited to a Federated Sportsmen's meeting. After we parted, I forwarded phone numbers and emails to the group, but I doubt they ever called the gun clubs or replied to forwarded emails.
Another thing that irks me is some groups' lack of effort to connect to the common man. Take the Exeter recall election - the pro-recall side communicated with the people of Exeter by mailings, going door to door, and I think 3 or 4 road signs that were manned before the election. There was no rally. I'm not aware of an attempt to get TV or radio ads, however the pro-recall side was happy to be mentioned by Daria Bruno. I'm aware of the pro-recall side's budget also, and I think mailings were the worst way to spend the money.
Think about it, when a local restaurant or politician sends you a mailing, where does it go? The trash. The average person might glance over the mailing, but there's a difference between glancing and getting out to vote. If you want people to get out and vote, you need to work the people into a frenzy. The pro-recall side was also inflexible in their planning methodology, and I think out of touch with the average person.
One comment by a member of the group drove me off the edge and his basic idea was that average people don't pay attention to facts, figures, logical reasoning, and anything that's not on TV. Obviously a lot of people are sheeple, but I didn't see any effort to connect to them or to get their attention. In an election, you simply need 51% of the vote. You don't need the intellectual high ground.
So to sum up, my suggestions are for the current groups to connect with the average conservative person. And New England does have a mass of conservative people who sometimes simply don't know who to talk to or what to do. This can be done easily in the 21st Century via Facebook, Twitter, this and other forums, and old fashioned methods like simply getting to know people. I think I'm going to ask my gun club about a "know your gun rights" event also.