There aren’t enough Feds, including military, to invoke martial law on tiny Mass. let alone the US. There just aren’t the numbers.
unless everyone is unarmed and compliant. The lock down showed that it’s not too unrealistic. I’ve heard the talk of marshal law many times and I never even thought twice about it. I didn’t think it was very realistic. I just watched what happened in MA and it’s realistic to me now
MA is tiny geographically but remember there are north of 6 million MA residents, more by far than most other states.
But of course if they are compliant, you don’t need to sustain a huge force to exert your will. You count on the locals, turning each other in, to do it for you.
But they can target, what if their target is wrong and they hit you. Search warrant, reasonable search and seizure. Not a with hunt!