It matters not whether your guns are registered or unregistered. The whole point and purpose of having ANY firearm is to protect yourself and your family from grievous harm, and to maintain the force necessary to dislodge a tyrannical government, should it ever become necessary for the continued survival of the nation.
You think if you stand down and turn over your registered firearms that the storm troopers won't turn over every rock to find any others you might have? Think again.
The right thing to do is to begin making face to face alliances with others who intend to fight back, should the unthinkable happen.
1. To thoroughly search the grounds of 100 million registered gun owners, there would need to be many bazillions of storm troopers. There probably are not, but if there ARE that many, then why would you think your little alliances would prevail against their numbers, their training, their organized and coordinated tactics, and their logistical superiority anyway?
2. Bury them off-site. (No brainer).
3. If you have only one rifle, one shot gun, and one pistol, then certainly keep them with you. If you have more of each, then what are you gonna do with them anyway? Most people I know have tons of guns, more than they could reasonably tote into battle - why not bury a few off site that you bought unregistered?
4. This thread started over an article about a plan by the gun grabbers to close the private sale loophole at gunshows. WHY do you think they want to stop this? Why would they want every last gun registered? What is it about an unregistered gun, such that they at least want to control that, even if they can't get the full monty done yet?
5. Alliances are a good idea, especially if informal, and therefore not easily disrupted ahead of time. But, if they cannot quite quickly BECOME formally organized after the SHTF, then they will be no match for those who ARE organized. And trained. And experienced. And mobile. And well-supplied. And with superior communications. And with superior weaponry. I doubt an uncoordinated rabble of alliances will stand much of a chance without turning to guerrilla tactics as a primary modality, and guerrilla tactics require much stealth and deception, and hidden caches of weapons are an important component of that.
Let me again reference “Total Resistance,” with a quote from page 104, a sub-heading (under the larger heading of “Operations of the Resistance Movement”) titled, “Concealment of Weapons and Ammunition from The Enemy”:
“In practically every Swiss household you will find weapons and ammunition.
“They must be removed from the reach of the enemy when the country is occupied. . . .
“Keep these weapons until guerrilla detachments or the resistance movement needs them.
“The best method for concealing weapons is by burying them. . . .”
And then it goes on to describe the best way to protect the weapons for burial.
I also think the book, “How Wars are Won”, by Bevin Alexander, and the cleverly insightful little tome, “How to Stage a Military Coup,” by David Hebditch and Ken Connor shed interesting light on matters germane to the future that probably lies before us. It is NOT unthinkable, Windflier, but certain ways to fight back may be more likely to succeed than others.