“The rational consensus seems to be that if the gun-grab order were given, cops would pinch a registration scofflaw at the grocery store, at work, on the road”
No, they will come at you in force at home. The purpose is not to grab you, as they could if you were in a store, but to TERRORIZE YOU and to put the fear of such a thing happening to all others who have not registered.
By TERRORIZING YOU, they TERRORIZE everyone. The MSM will also be there to show the world what happens to scoffaws and it is a warning to others that “THIS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU!” if you don’t turn in your guns.
They’ll get away with it the first few times. After that...
They'll terrorize some.
Others they'll enrage and fill with a terrible resolve.
One more thing.
From Adm. James Stockdale, on his seven years checked-in at the Hanoi Hilton:
“This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”