They won’t be given up voluntarily in large numbers.
Any government that forcefully or coercively snatches them will receive unwanted donations.
Exactly. Mayors and high level police officials will be in crosshairs or red dot, which ever you prefer. Bolt action rifles are preferred by snipers for their accuracy and ability to control the cartridge extraction. It took Oswald 3 rounds to commit a coup in the US with a $25 mail order catalog Italian rifle.
If our civic leaders attempt this, there will be a rifle behind every tree, every blade of grass.
Voluntarily is the operative word. Watch Trudeau in Canada. He will apply his COVID protestors strategy and digitally freeze assets of known firearm owners - part of the WEF’s “Great Reset”. DemonRats want the same in the U.S.