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Also, I recall that, a few years ago, they surveyed, at some level a bunch of Marines about conducting operations in the US to disarm American Citizens.

IIRC, a majority said they would do it.

Okay. I'm calling BS on that one. I spent 20 years in the Corps and I can say without a doubt that statement is utter BS!

It was a survey done back on 1994 by LTC Guy Cunningham as part of a Masters thesis. It was called the "Combat Arms Survey" or "Twenty-nine Palms Survey". I remember it being a huge deal when it was first leaked. The responses were broken down by time in service and basically, the younger more inexperienced respondees were more likely to follow an order to fire upon American citizens if under orders to disarm American citizens. The purpose of the survey was to show how uninformed many of the younger soldiers were about the Constitution and history of the country.

Unfortunately, the majority of the younger soldiers agreed with this question:

46. The U.S. government declares a ban on the possession, sale, transportation, and transfer of all non-approved firearms. A 30-day amnesty period is established for these firearms to be turned over to the local authorities. At the end of this period, a number of irregular citizen groups and defiant individuals refuse to turn over their firearms to authority. Consider the following statement: [SD D A SA NO] "I would fire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the United States government."