Well, for me, the premise of this whole thread is wrong. What's going on now has nothing to do with how much gun-owners may be willing to give up ...
What's going on now has everything to do with minimizing what's going to be taken away from us.
If the anti-gun left wants to dialogue, and the law-abiding gun-owners of America either refuse to show up at the table, or do show up at the table but then clearly state a refusal to engage in dialogue, we've already lost the most important thing -- our image. Frankly, I think we just appear obtuse when we say things to the uneducated such as "What part of 'shall not be infringed' don't you understand?" or "The 2nd Amendment is my concealed carry permit." This stuff means nothing to the non-gun folks out there.
We simply continue to preach to the choir. The left continues to portray American gun-owners as rural, redneck, racist trailer-park dwellers or farmers of dubious intellect -- refusing to put forward intelligent, articulate folks from our side to counter the anti-gun arguments is conceding everything.
Universal background checks are coming everywhere and to a state near you ... The bump-stock ban, as stupid and ineffectual as it may be, is imminent. We're at a crossroads right now, and if we're not communicating with our legislators NOW, all the internet pontificating and hand-wringing is useless. Yeah, that "line in the sand" was clearly drawn in December 1791 ... but guess what? The Bill of Rights means nothing to our adversaries, so we need to frame our opposition to further gun control effects much differently. Logic, statistics and facts for a start. Get off the internet and send out those e-mails and snail-mail letters. I can quote my pocket-carry Constitution all I want to my non-gun-owning co-workers, friends and relatives, but that's not what's going to sway them.
All the gun people I know up here talked a lot of smack when I-594 was on the ballot, but guess what? Not all of them voted, and now we have UBCs in my state. I'm getting the same feeling right now as I had in November of 2014 ...