I has been years since I have read it (high school term paper during the Carter years. Rural libraries are sometimes under rated. For a small town school, Big Oil kept it well funded and was able to attract the best teachers from not only Sweetwater County but as far as NYC. Alaska gives mails dividend checks, we fix roads and schools and keeps a rainy day fund.) My memory of the point may be off, but that is what I got out of it.
Personally, I think current laws need to made more sensible before we add any further federal regulations. For example, a single shot rifle or shotgun with a 15 inch barrel (in fact many "unrestricted" firearms in Canada) is more strictly regulated than an AR. That missing one to three inches of barrel puts it under the National Firearms Act instead of the Gun Control Act, meaning it falls under the same regulation as machine guns. That isn't sensible. Granted, I would make that provision more liberal, but it would still be more "sensible".
The reason why I say "sensible" instead of sensible is because it is a weasel word. It means whatever you want it to mean.
My view on guns is closer to Cesare Beccaria than Wolfgang's or Nugent's (who are polar extremes since Wolfgang would have supported disarming the police and "uninvent" them if possible.)