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If it's time to bury them, it's past time to use them.

Again with this bilge? (nothing personal, Lurker, it is the position and attitude of that sentence with which I disagree).

Look, it is all about reserves. If every single gun a person has is on a 4473 somewhere, "they" will know about them and expect you to deliver up all of them - when 20 guys in body armor, carrying full autos, grenades, with an armored car and a helicopter gunship overhead visit your humble abode. IOW, you and your family have no chance to resist. EVERY gun you have, and ALL ammo you have (and mags, holsters, etc.) WILL be taken, and you'll be a lucky person if you aren't.

Even if you have guns that are NOT on a 4473 (because you were smart enough to plan ahead), IF YOU HAVE IT ON YOUR PROPERTY THEY WILL GET IT. You see, if they're searching your property for guns they know about and find the unpapered one, it gets taken. If you have papered guns in 9mm, .45, .223, .308 and 12-gauge, and they find 7.62x39, or .303, or anything else, they will KNOW that you have another gun and WILL NOT STOP LOOKING UNTIL THEY FIND IT. Not even if they have to bring in a front-end loader and a wrecking crew to dig up your yard and destroy your house. Go try to sell your house then, assuming you or your family are alive and free, and have anything left after the legal bills.

Now that the above facts are clear, what does any practical person do? Have an unpapered gun off premises. With all of its ammo (or, if you have one in the same caliber that is papered, enough ammo for your purposes). That way, if "they" come and take all of what you have in your home or on your property, you still have something in reserve. If they don't take you away, lay low for a few weeks or months and then do whatever it is you think you have to. Or, if they take you away, after you get back do the same.

The whole goal of the 4473, and moreso the more recent registration schemes that have been proposed, is simply to make every single gun owned by a civilian known to Uncle. Guess what, hiding something that rightfully belongs to you is no crime - and it will insure that it stays YOURS pretty much no matter how draconian the laws become. The 2nd Amendment means nothing if there are no guns in the hands of the militia. In the present and easily forseeable future, 95% of guns may be seized. Make sure that you own one or more of that 5% which aren't. In fact, the more people that follow this advice, the less likely it is that some kind of confiscation will occur - because it will not only be unsuccessful, but it will be the gong that ignites CWII with many millions of guns still in civilian hands.

Absolutely. But it’s not a bad idea to have a cheap import like a Mosin Nagant M91-30 with a couple hundred rounds of ammo cached away.

The Art of the Cache

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a9f53301414.htm

I would add a small appendix to the cache. If you decide to reveal your cache to someone, and times are questionable, give them a false location as a test to see what they do with the info.