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Since the primary purpose of the second amendment right to keep and bear arms... is to provide the people with the ability to defend against exactly this precise kind of tyranny, that being a government that attempts to disarm the citizens .......the consequences -- that being that the citizens will use their arms in precisely this intended manner, shooting back before submitting or permitting their confiscation....just like the Founders of our Republic did when the British King tried to confiscate or outlaw private arms ownership in America (its just history, is all, and history can and oft does repeat itself... because subsequent generations frequently make the same or similar mistakes over and over again). The Founders knew that private arms can also be used for things like protection against crime, and that the widespread dispersion of arms ownership tends to reduce the incidence of crimes, and that arms can be used for hunting for food, etc., and that arms can serve as a deterrent against foreign invasion of America, etc. But, the primary consideration of the Founders of America was against the possible eventual imposition of a tyranny by the federal government (thus, of limited enumerated powers only and with several additional structural features to limit the danger of it growing into a dictatorship)... the main idea was to protect in all possible ways against this from happening. "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” ― James Madison, Federalist Papers Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents.” ― James Madison, Letters and Other Writings of James Madison Volume 3 "To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them." - George Mason "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe." - Noah Webster "A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace." - James Madison "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." - Richard Henry Lee "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.... The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun." - Patrick Henry "This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty.... The right of self defense is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction." - St. George Tucker "The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them." - Joseph Story "What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty .... Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins." - Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts