Saw the video and heard the podcast. Gottlieb isn't a traitor. If you don't know cars much, think of him as the salesman who sold you your last few cars that all ran great.
Gottlieb is opening with a gambit that appears to give up Background Checks to make sizable gains in gun rights, while ceding little tangible ground. Granted, there is risk here, but simply expecting to shoot down the gun controllers' bills with no legislation passed at all is a pipe dream. Really. Vote for that Presidential candidate nobody heard of instead of Romney to make your point, but don't torpedo SAF yet.
POTUS is coming out against us - the 40-50% of homes that have firearms - using the full force of his office, claiming moral superiority based on a fictitious 90% support base. This will not whimper and die.
I continue to write, call and generally harass my legislators to oppose any legislation that would enable the possibility of registration of guns/owners or new bans/limits on firearm purchase, possession and use by honest citizens. I am specifying the intent, not the bill designator number, as amendments can push the bill right or left.