Maybe you don’t know, because you never served.
OK, let’s take your numbers:
~120 million households
~ 2 million goons
So each goon would have to search 60 houses.
Say they go in packs of 3-4 that is ~200 houses to search per pack of goons.
If they search 5 houses a day that’s ~40 days to search every house in the US.
I am glad we had this conversation. I think getting searched in Obama’s America is a distinct possibility. Keeping two stashes with one sacrificial one to be confiscated makes a lot of sense to me.
I don't know if you have noticed... It's only PBI that gets to clear houses with 3-4, and then, you have to have a significant reserve to support them if they get into trouble.
For goodness sake, don't poison the sacrificial stash. That would be unlawful. And mean. And maybe racist. ;)
I'm always willing to run the numbers again. It was a good, if informal table-top.
/johnny