Gents....
I think if Ol' Wild Bill was to rejoin us today it wouldn't be long before he put his treasured pair of '51 Navies away and took up something more modern. Apparently he stuck to his cap & ball's because he didn't trust the reliability of early rim fire metallic cartridges. Since then cartridges and revolvers have come a long way.
This is not to say that the old-time guns aren't lethal. Of course they are. In fact during World War Two in one of the countries the Germans occupied, one individual - after having his modern firearms confiscated because the occupiers had the country's firearms registration lists - loaded a single-shot percussion pistol and went out to pick up a new Mauser rifle that the former owner didn't need anymore. In fact he didn't need anything anymore.
I don't know that the Democrats are going to win the election or not, it's way too early to predict. But the way the economy is going whoever gets in is going to have far more serious problems to worry about then guns. Also at this point there are so many older unregistered guns in this country that they couldn't get very far with total confiscation, and considering the number of folks that own guns it highly unlikely they'd win another election for a long, long time.
Last but not least, before the next election the Supreme Court may have found that the right to keep and bear arms is indeed an individual right, and any attempt at overall confiscation wouldn't get far.
That said, everyone should go out and buy guns, including the black powder kind. The more folks that buy guns the less likely the government will tangle with them, which is exactly what the founding fathers had in mind.
