[mad_as_he$$]

I was specifically responding to the Feds at the gate were armed with AR’s statement in the OP. Government sniper were armed with long barrel bolt action weapons.

[mountainlion]

Feds at the gate were armed with....

I would bet they had truck fulls of surveillance equipment and body armor and such. Drones and air cover/surveillance would not be out of consideration. I wonder what they used to shoot all the cows?