In a SHTF situation, the government will clamp down severely using powers of the Patriot Act, FEMA, the National Guard, and executive orders from the President.
I don't mean to fault you for your out-of-box thinking - more of which we need - but that scenario's becoming more unlikely over time. You know why? With the increasing militarization of the police, guns become (relatively speaking) less and less of a threat to them. As long as the constabulary is much better armed than the armed citizen, the armed citizen won't be much of a threat to the constabulary.
Also, in combination with the above point, it's good PR to let people keep their guns. Better that the average armed citizen has no obvious cause to get "unruly."
Huh?
History throughout the world shows that as governments become more powerful, bigger, more controlling, as they become more tyrannical, the governments more and more restrict or take away the guns of the citizens.
Another factor is the overpopulating of the country. As populations increase the governments exert more control and there becomes less and less personal individual liberties. The US is the fastest growing country in the world, mainly due to immigration, and the high birth rates of latinos, blacks, and new immigrants. There will be 400 million people in the US by 2050 and over a billion by the end of the century.
I dont see any way at all that guns will be legal for citizens to own or possess in a United States which has a population of a billion people.
>>In a SHTF situation, the government will clamp down severely using powers of the Patriot Act, FEMA, the National Guard, and executive orders from the President.
Which is why every little police department in east Podunk is being armed to the teeth with automatic weapons, body armour and even armored personnel carriers and such...it will all be used against the american people, not the islamic terrorists.