But lets go down both paths.
Lets say they do move, their dubious thinking will only weaken the swing states.
<if so, there is truly nothing of value left to us in CA whatsoever, so isolation from external support while denying them what internal support is possible is the only recourse>
Lets say the move and they are truly 2A'ers. Now a gun free CA is the proven model that it can be done and it will continue to spread to other states.
<actually, this is our end-game; let their gun free Utopia collapse into the hell of unchecked crime and abusive state power, which will almost immediately destroy their economy & drive forth what few liberty-minded supporters remain. So weakened, CA will be unable to defend its tyrannical policies against externally-organized authority. This course of action relies on faith in the historically-proven inferiority of tyrannical systems versus more vibrant freedom.>
California is beyond redemption; it must be forced to reform if things are ever to get better there. I suspect that at this point, the state of California typically siphons more money & resources from each gun owner to be used against them, than they will realistically be able to offset with contributions of time or money to gun rights orgs.
My viewpoint on this from outside California is purely strategic at this point; sorry if that offends or upsets anyone, but the objective view is that the battle there is already lost, and you are at the point where only stragglers remain to be picked off. However, due to the very scale of the Californian super-state, even those stragglers would constitute an unbeatable force in many, many other districts that currently hang in the balance. Thanks to the Constitution and congress, there is a lower limit on how little representation they can enjoy at the federal level, and it is at this time far higher than what is available to gun owners in California. Senators, specifically, but also representatives.
Examples of CA gun laws that have spread to other parts of the country
Your example is a national law (AWB) that leaked out of California to be passed by a narrow majority in congress. This is the exact scenario the emptying CA of its ineffective pro-gun representation & employing it into more contentious districts will specifically protect against. Again, our system of governments is supposed to reward the freest, and stifle the tyrannical; what good can possibly come of supporting such a system with no realistic path to victory?
I would implore gun owners to pour back into California were court decisions or constitutional amendments or secession re-opening the possibility that gun owners would find their freedoms protected and their voices represented. None of these things is likely at this time, however further arbitrary restrictions passing unopposed that make life even more unbearable are inevitable.
Last question: why do you think the refugees & immigrants being imported to expand future Democrat representation are not being isolated to their main power bases in California and NYC? Is it because it makes more sense to distribute them to more contentious areas in the hope they will tilt some left, and expand the held territory?
TCB