Start with nullification. Fed.gov wants to take away guns? Just say “not here.”
Perfect first step. They had absolutely no fear of anything when they were doing the same to the President about illegals. And if the states had some really ballsy Sheriffs, it’d be a no brainer and easy thing to do.
Be like that Sheriff in Virginia who said he would deputize everyone in town that he could.
IMHO - Obama’s purposeful stoking of racial conflict in cities over “police brutality,” if you watched the upshot, was to promote much stronger management/control of local police via “civil rights” actions and directives from the DOJ
“Defund the Police” is another pawn in this game. As you can imagine, there is no leftist/Democrat call to “defund” any Federal police or intelligence agencies, of which there are dozens.
The goal is to control, if not outright federalize police. Then the potential for local cities, counties, states to declare non-enforcement of statist/Fed.gov edicts become steadily reduced.