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Gun owners should defect and go third party. If we started just with the states with majority gun ownership: we'd have twenty-four electoral votes. If we included states with 40% and above, that would increase to seventy-six votes.

Most of these states are Republican, but New Mexico surprisingly has 49.9% gun ownership, and Hawaii has 45.1%, which means it could also hurt the Democrats, if only a little. The purpose of a "Gun Owner's Party" (also GOP) wouldn't be to win elections, but rather to scare the GOP, and provide for a formal voting bloc that can support other third parties should the GOP not back down.

I'm not really seriously advocating for this, it's more of a thought experiment, but I'd definitely join a third party for gun owners, so long as it remained a single issue party.