Onesies-twosies, yeah, they can confiscate a few.
Yes, some will get taken down in “non-confrontational raids”.
Any serious attempt at widespread confiscation WILL be widely reported and acted on.
Remember Waco & Ruby Ridge? two hardcore confiscations that happened within just months of each other?
The feds do. They haven’t repeated that for, what, 15 years now?
Something less confrontational was tried after Katrina. Ya notice it stopped? and pretty quickly at that? Yeah, some people got theirs confiscated ... but we didn’t get the whole story, and indications are someone reminded someone else that extreme badness would occur if they continued.
There is a line.
There are people who will fight when that line is crossed.
Sure, some registered arms would be meekly handed over.
That won’t be anywhere close to all of them.
The question is: who cares more? the bureaucratic agents who ultimately just want their paycheck and go home to watch TV & play golf? or the citizen who isn’t going to go quietly? which group outnumbers the other?
I was at a meeting where two agents from the CA DOJ spoke. They assured us all that they agreed with us that the US Constitution assured our RKBA and that they were as glad as we were...blah, blah, blah.
Someone asked them if a CA law were passed that required confiscation, would they do it? Yup, they would. How could they reconcile the contradiction? "Our job is not to make or interpret the laws. Our job is to enforce them. It's up to the elected legislature to make law and the courts to interpret. We are required to enforce..."
I don't know how many would resign or how many would jack-boot right in to "do their job", but I agree with you:
There is a line. There are people who will fight when that line is crossed. Sure, some registered arms would be meekly handed over. That won’t be anywhere close to all of them. The question is: who cares more? the bureaucratic agents who ultimately just want their paycheck and go home to watch TV & play golf? or the citizen who isn’t going to go quietly? which group outnumbers the other?
Also agree with your observation that after RR and Waco, there had been no further such attempts until the rapidly backed off on Katrina incidents:
...indications are someone reminded someone else that extreme badness would occur if they continued.
WRT which group outnumbers the other: in my calls and emails regarding Shamnesty I reminded them that 84% of 300 million people was a lot of people to cross.