Given who’s currently heading the military? All of them, I’d say.
This law feels emotionally satisfying to me, but I think it’s impractical. The Federal government isn’t going to allow counties or states to arrest their people. The first step will be cutting off all Federal funding to anyone who enacts the policy. That will economically devastate whoever tries it. After that, I think they’ll show up in such massive displays of force that no arrests would be possible without bloodshed, and nobody’s going to do that.
I do think that having state and local laws nullifying unconstitutional Federal gun laws are good, and I think state and local laws barring any state or local law enforcement from assisting the Feds in enforcing such laws are also great to have. You can’t stop the Feds from doing what they want to do, but you can stop helping them. That actually makes a big difference as the Feds don’t have the resources to do all the ground work themselves. They count on local cooperation. Take that away and their operational capacity is greatly diminished.
After that, I think they’ll show up in such massive displays of force that no arrests would be possible without bloodshed, and nobody’s going to do that.”
Don’t bet the life on that. We ain’t in Kansas anymore...
“After that, I think they’ll show up in such massive displays of force that no arrests would be possible without bloodshed, and nobody’s going to do that.”
It took two months to find enough fed volunteers to show up in their ninja clown suits at Bundy ranch. The feds had to go to three different states and six different agencies to find 200 federal gestapo. More than 5,000 patriots were waiting.
The feds can show up in force and they can hold an area at will in force. When they leave they no longer control the area and they can’t muster enough forces to control the vast areas of the US. Even if they recall the entire Army and Marine corp and mobilize all federal law enforcement they are going to come up short.
The National Guard is an entirely different story in itself. You are going to send cousin Fred to disarm cousin George in the next county and if need be shoot him, don’t think so. Also once you start shooting and killing civilians and you can expect unarmed family members in this process, whether intentional or by accident you open up a whole new can of worms: retaliation, it’s human nature and it will happen. God I hope this doesn’t happen for everyone’s sake!