Ask Russia how well the "full might of the.. government" went against the Muslim guerrillas, with far less-accurate weaponry than is deployed afield BY THE MILLIONS during any given deer season in any US state.
To answer your question, you panty-wetting nitwit, we don't have to. Just OWNING weaponry scares the hell out of the US government, and lily-livered state-worshippers like you.
See my reference to what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had to say regarding this point.
Lol, I think a couple dozen Cowboys on horseback scared the Libs running the BLM and the Whitehouse staff!
My personal opinion is that the Feds knew that one dead cowboy might mean them facing a million armed and pissed off people the next day with another million or two “on the way” from as far as Maine and Hawaii.
If they weren’t armed, do you think the Feds would have hesitated to bust some heads, I don’t.