“They are expecting some serious dissent” I believe you are correct. Too bad they forget upon which this nation was founded - the shot heard round the world. When our government (King George) wanted to take away our guns, and we said no.
In any civil war, this whole gun registration crap lasts approx 2 weeks until enough Brownshirts get killed and citizens take THEIR guns off the dead bodies.
At that point, tracing the typical M4 used by the Resistance only leads back to DHS or whoever issued the gun to their rank-and-file Brownshirt.
The danger of registration is the islamo-commie illegitimate govt grabbing the guns BEFORE full-on
war breaks out.