Fifth Amendment: "No person shall be...deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..."
IMO The fact that they're thinking of ways to confiscate peoples' firearms, is evidence that they know people will not meekly surrender them.
The result, of course, would mean Ruby Ridge & Branch Davidian style raids, across the country, and would likely provide Obama the excuse he needs, to declare martial law.
Which, perhaps, is the ultimate goal.
What good will martial law do obama? 90% of the military hates him, and by far the biggest majority of them are the sons/daughters of conservatives.
Someone I know 'wargamed' that situation out to where the surrounders became the surrounded.
It would also draw public enemy no. 2 to the scene--the msm...