One would hope that your “5,000 regular troops” will have the intestinal fortitude to uphold the oath they took when they enlisted.
If the Armed Forces, who have sworn an oath to the US Constitution cannot honor that oath, we are doomed!
There need be no obvious reason to think there was anything underhanded going on.
For instance, imagine you turn on the Nightly news some evening...
you hear Brian Williams (or whoever the shill of the day say “Breaking news: Today, the CDC has confirmed three cases of Ebola in (fill in the city of your choice, just for grins, lets pick) Atlanta, Georgia.”
There. There ya go.
One things for sure. It would no longer be “business as usual”. In fact it might never be “business as usual” again.
Now, think about this: If your neighbor and his family was starving, do you think he might tell the Feds you have guns if they give him say, a case of nice T-Bones from Kansas?
I’m just playing hypothetical games here. Probably, whatever happens, it will be different from anything any of us has ever imagined.
But I think the very last scenario is anybody going door-to-door to collect guns. The cost of that approach would be way, way to high.