Yes, and when things get so bad in the USA that firearms confiscations begin, you won't be able to use them for hunting or going to the range anyway and so you can cache them securely, along with your Smith and Wesson T-shirt and Colt belt-buckle until a more enlightened era comes around. You can continue fishing and take up bow-hunting and tell all of your friends who have become sheep and turned in their guns to be destroyed that you have done the same, and then change the subject. You can even show them the receipt for the 'junk gun' that you actually turned in as evidence of this.
Some 'select' weapons are of course kept for home protection, so that you will at least have the opportunity to be judged by twelve as opposed to being carried by six if some criminal thug decides to break into your home or carjack you.
And all the while, you tell NOBODY that you have a gun.
After all, how are you going to be able to get to the polls to vote for rescinding the gun ban if you are in jail for firearms violations?
All of us have different circumstances but a thoughtful and a suitably creative person can usually find a way to deal with a threat, and also to have the agility and stealth necessary to make changes in order to address a changing threat.
>>We're already profiled.<<
Yes we are. That is why IMO, we should stash our extra tools away. I wouldn't be surprised if some day a gang of Feds bangs on the door and demands all my weapons. Go ahead and take everything in the safe will be my smiling response, knowing that I have other specialized tools within 3 to 40 miles along all the highways leaving town.
Taking a $50 rifle and burying it, then digging it up two years later will tell you if you have the technique down pat.
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Now that's high class stuff there. LOL
"Profiled"? Well, of course. As a white, middle-aged, heterosexual Christian male, I'm profiled many times over. The larger worry is being "on the list" - which I most assuredly am. Back before the anti-gun crowd caught my attention and made me re-evaluate certain practices of mine, I bought several firearms over the counter from a local dealer. Years later, that dealer was investigated and eventually the FFL holder was convicted of selling guns to felons. All the transactions were legit, as I understand the regs governing FFL holders; it was an ATF fishing expedition. But I digress.
Bottom line - ALL of the dealer's 4473s were seized. So, the feds know what I bought there - as well as the purchases by many others, including my dad, cousins, friends, etc. We're all in the database. So now, I consider all of the stuff bought on a 4473 to be "sacrificial". It's not the entirety of my collection, though... and it's certainly not all in one place.
Here's another thought: Do y'all remember the Smith & Wesson "agreement"? Well, it's not dead. In fact, I think I just saw it twitch.