:::There has never been 'consensus' regarding this article. What has occurred, on and off, is that the supporters of the NPOV-violating pro-gun propaganda have driven off any contributors actually interested in creating an informative and neutral encyclopaedic treatment of the subject by tag-teaming, tendentious and circular stonewalling talk pace 'discussions', and the periodic holding of bogus NPOV-violating 'RFCs' clearly intended to rally supporters rather than encourage any outside input. Sadly for them (but not for Wikipedia), it seems to have backfired this time, and we actually have a significant number of experienced contributors from beyond the U.S. gun lobby willing and able to knock the article into credible shape. As for what happens next, I very much doubt that such new contributors are going to stand back and have the article return to the repulsive state it was in before.