No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
The Second Amendment didn't say "keep and hide arms." It will be time to bear them and put them to their intended use once the traitors outlaw them.
Geez, folks!
I did NOT say to hide ALL your fire arms!
I said to get and hide your UNREGISTERED ones.
Imagine they have a list of all registered firearms. They know what you have, and where you live. You may not be home when they come to collect them. They may come to take them with overwhelming force. They may use incapacitating gas agents to remove your ability to resist. Whatever.
Imagine, therefore that they merely collect all your registered guns. They think they’ve got all you have, and if there was no shootout for some reason, and there is no legal reason to arrest you, they let you go. You might want to have some guns the authorities don’t know about to fall back on.
Imagine you are killed in the initial shit using your registered guns. Having a list, they are all confiscated. Your wife and children are left alive, but unarmed. Having some unregistered guns buried off-site would keep them armed if they so chose. Some trusted neighbors that you informed before the shit might also be able to make use of them.
It’s called contingency planning, back-up plans, “action on”. If all you have is registered, readily available guns and ammo, your options may be quite limited, especially if you or your loved ones survive the initial confiscation.
The idea of a Federal takeover, followed by an active resistance movement, is another consideration, well delineated in “Total Resistance” by Major H. von Dach, “The Swiss Army guide to guerrilla warfare and underground operations.” The resistance will do better initially with a few weapons in reserve that were not seized, from which they can plan ops to get more.
If we all go out in a blaze of glory trying our best against troops and LEOs whose life work and daily practice it is to kill or contain people like us, and who come much better armed and organized and trained than we will ever be, then we will have accomplished little more than the Charge of the Light Brigade. We will be like the “dumb bastard” in Patton’s quote, who never won a war dying for our country. It might be better to use deception, usually a key element in military victory.
Do we want to win, or do we want to make a statement?