You have pretty much summed it up and yes, we had incidents to reclaim our freedom but didn’t, but I always thought there would be one moment where we would not allow it to stand. There was the one event, the one moment when I believe we had our LAST chance and that was the open, obvious and egregious theft of the 2020 election. Our votes were stolen, our freedom collapsed on J6 when we became afraid and did not revolt against the theft and imprisonment of those true patriots. The only mistake on J6 was that the entire Capitol building was not swarmed by the thousands upon thousands protesting in the streets.
I am a coward. I had twenty-three ancestors that fought in the American Revolution. (All farmers, militia). Ten on my mothers side and thirteen on my fathers. One would think my bloodline would provoke courage but it doesn’t.
The "Molon Labe" crowd gets me the most. Yeah, sure, "Come and take them", but they won't. I know we all believe the left is ignorant and stupid with no common sense. This isn't the case. They know EXACTLY what they are doing. Fact is, when the time comes for them to get the guns, they won't be going door to door. They truly are not that stupid. Yes, there will be isolated cases where they do, but in reality, that will be but a handful of the gun owning population.
Instead, what they will do is pass a fine for not turning over your firearms when asked. This has already been true in some states. For now, these proposals usually get shot down, pun intended. Someday in the not so distant future, it will go through and no courts will stop them. In one case a while back, it was a $1,000 fine per day per firearm. I've also heard a one time fine of $30,000 per firearm you fail to turn in. Either way, the feds will "legally" own you in a very short period of time.
After 90 days, they will begin the legal process to collect those fines. Lien on your house, liens on your vehicles, garnishments on your wages. Still refusing to turn over your firearms? Next they cut your electricity. Now they've accomplished a few things: If you fail to turn over your firearms, you now have a greatly diminished ability to provide for your family and continue to pay those bills. Within a year, your paycheck has been cut short, the government owns your home and vehicles and now the wife is packing up the kids and heading to her parents because she can't live in a home with little food and no electric/water, all because you refuse to turn your firearms over.
Before long, one of two things WILL happen: You will either BEG them to take your guns, or you will have nothing - no job, no money, no home, no vehicles and they will have done it all through lawfare, as we are seeing with Trump right now.
Before you go bragging about all the guns you own that you never had a background check done on, so there are no records of ownership, consider this: they have tracked down all of the J6 folks fairly easily. They know about your guns, too, background check or not. They have record via your cell phone of you going to the range regularly. They have recorded the texts and phone calls you did while making the purchases. They have record of your credit/debit card purchases of those 80% receivers. They will fill in the rest of the info they need with friends and family members talking about how you have a whole collection of firearms that haven't gone through the background check process. Believe it or not, they know what you have. And if they don't know exactly, it will only take simple investigation and intimidation of friends, family and coworkers over the years who can piece that info together for them.
Molon Labe, indeed.