The "open carry" folks might be making a big mistake. There are a lot of people who see their actions as a misguided, swaggering, macho
charade Strutting around with arms strapped on serves no purpose other than to demonstrate that there is still plenty of opportunity for private citizens to keep and bear arms.
The gun toters and their lobby need to be patient and let the recent Supreme Court decision concerning the District of Columbia's gun laws evolve, as it most likely will, into a substantial relaxation of gun laws in the various states. The workings out of these kinds of things are not, and never will be, instantaneous. And the paranoid goofballs who spread the silly notion that "Obama is after your gun" are contributing nothing useful to the national discussion. The real beneficiaries of that nuttiness are the gun and ammo dealers, feeding on the delusions created by the nutty side!