If you're going to wait for the confrontation, and put all this planning and strategizing into it, remember that she might be doing the same thing. There could be a discussion thread mirroring this one out there, with her asking her anti-gun colleagues what she can do about her otherwise-spectacular gun-nut boyfriend.
If you aren't willing to walk away from the relationship, and she is, then she'll have all the ammunition in her camp when it comes to negotiating this issue. You'll sell all your guns, leave the NRA, and think to yourself every night, "This girl is worth the price I paid." Hopefully. If there's any doubt as to whether she's worth losing the guns, then you'll have to decide at what point you'll choose them over her, and you'll need the strength to make that hard decision when the time comes.
I don't think anyone here envies you. It's a brutal situation when a man must choose between two loves. I hope you're lucky, and don't have to make the choice, but if you must, I hope you handle it as well as anyone can.
My advice is to make your decision based on how much regret you'll feel in ten years.
If you aren't willing to walk away from the relationship, and she is, then she'll have all the ammunition in her camp when it comes to negotiating this issue. You'll sell all your guns, leave the NRA, and think to yourself every night, "This girl is worth the price I paid." Hopefully. If there's any doubt as to whether she's worth losing the guns, then you'll have to decide at what point you'll choose them over her, and you'll need the strength to make that hard decision when the time comes.
I don't think anyone here envies you. It's a brutal situation when a man must choose between two loves. I hope you're lucky, and don't have to make the choice, but if you must, I hope you handle it as well as anyone can.
My advice is to make your decision based on how much regret you'll feel in ten years.