It's not the law abiding gun owners that they have identified that they should be worried about. It's the nut jobs that they love to sensationalize that they should fear. Those seeking their 15 minutes of fame. Those not effected by gun bans.
And the funny thing about it is that they weren't threatened, just got a flood of e-mails. :biggrin: And that scared them as both owners and non owners thought they were dumb to print it.