My father was a member of the Military Order of World Wars. He thought that I was sometimes too extreme in my defense of RKBA. He handed me a brochure one day, printed by MOWW, stating the the NG was the “militia” in a constitutional sense. This view is prevalent in parts of law enforcement as well.
You may not find very many cops and military officers who would refuse an order to confiscate your guns, on some simple whim of government.
I can’t say many bad things about my father, except doubting he would have ever questioned orders, and refused them, even bad orders.
You are all too correct. Few have either the knowledge or the backbone to refuse an order. Fortunately, that “Ah wuz jest follerin’ orders” defense made by NOLA’s uniformed, armed and armored ‘Missing Links In Uniform’ was dealt with at Nurenburg, Germany after WW II.
It was held to be an invalid defense.
IMHO, the NOLA ‘ossifers’ who collected those guns should be in prison for decades on a number of charges.
Do you remember back in the mid 90s, before freerepublic had come into being, a brigade of USMC in a training expidition at Twentynine Palms was given a questionaire by the Klinton Admin that asked, among other things, "would you obey an order to disarm the American public?" All but a few of the enlisted men stated that they had taken an oath that required them to disobey such an order.
Let's hope that the USMC is still such a high caliber organisation.