If there is any serious gun confiscation (ie Australian model), there will be a civil war. That’s why the government thugs have been careful to limit gun control to leftist states and the big cities. We have had beta testing on a few vets and there is a push in the schools and in health care to identify and selectively target gun owners.
Any full throttled across the board gun confiscation effort by a hitlery or 0bama EO would meet with resistance. Yes, there will be some in the military that will blindly follow orders and shoot US citizens that resist. But many if not most will go AWOL or figure out clever means of evading orders as things deteriorate. These are the people that will wait to see who will be the winner (s). Meanwhile, some will remain military with the aim of overthrowing the existing order and installing themselves as leaders or warlords. At that point, the central government will cease to exist.
A demoralized and divided military cannot function as an effective operating unit. As we have seen in many examples in history, large forces can be defeated when only 10% or so of the unit refuses to follow orders. Look at the Italians in Libya vs the British in WW2. On the opposite extreme, the Japanese soldier fervently and religiously believed that their life belonged to the emperor fought to the death and only rarely surrendered.
A US civil war would likely result in a civil war within the military. It seems inconceivable that under these circumstances the military could maintain cohesion in a war against American conservatives, vets, Christians. The individual soldier would need a unifying ideology that clearly separates themselves from their target. The Nazis had one, the Japanese had one, the Italians did not.
What would the individual American soldier fight for in a CW2? Leftism, communism, fascism; the worship of an 0bama or hitlery?
A CW is not the future of America. When the globalist oligarchy has all the plans in place to carry out the post apocalypse agenda, the American economy will be collapsed and the resulting chaos, starvation and disease will ‘pacify’ the survivors so that the already established ‘policing forces’ sustained during the chaos will have little trouble ‘cleaning up the neighborhoods’ for the new world order. Gun confiscation will be instituted AFTER the chaos, disease, starvation, and mayhem have reduced the populations to ‘manageable’ levels.