Just a second, let me get dressed...
OK.
I think this can be used to disenfranchise the growing libertarian movement.
Libertarian-oriented R's are taking over the party, and Boehner and others of the old guard are threatened by this. Frankly, Obama and the Dems have to be a bit bothered by this, too. They can compromise and sell us all out with the blue-blood GOP, but not so much with libertarian oriented R's. But, blue blooded GOP behavior isn't selling with the electorate. This libertarian-streaked GOP stuff is.
So, queue the guns/flag-burning/gheyzors. This time, it's guns.
The blue-blood GOP will put lots of people back into the Senate and House when the electorate goes back to only seeing red/blue, dem/repub, rather than the current spectrum of "screw all you guys that want to take stuff away from me" and FSA.
It's easy to obfuscate the remaining statism of your campaign platform when you're ra-ra-ing about guns.