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“It’s impossible to fathom why these people keep trying to disarm Americans... But out of an estimated 400 million +/- guns, just how many do you imagine thry could actually confiscate (a few thousand maybe?... Chances of citizen compliance - two percent tops?”

Suppose the government announced today that all Americans have two weeks to turn in all firearms or face prosecution. That is it not really confiscation, merely a temporary but necessary measure due to mostly unnamed factors, and that the firearms would be returned within a short time frame. The public’s decisions would be influenced by the following:

1. Many new gun-owners own one firearm recently purchased out of fear of the unknown, and many barely know how to use it, if at all. Many have never fired their weapon, and to “temporarily” relinquish it would not be a hardship for them. This is a new thing, and all will be ok.

2. Most Americans still like to think that the government is actually there for their benefit, and that any act of “temporary gun inspection” is in their best interest. Most cling to the ideals of their youth or those of their forefathers, and still hold the US Government in high regard.

3. Many believe any real threat to national or local security can be best handled by the government.

Most Americans would willingly line up to turn in their weapons, still holding a misguided faith that all will be well. I really believe that AT LEAST half of all guns in America would be turned in, rather than their owners risking criminal charges.

Many would be hold-outs and risk the consequences, some actively resisting. The number of gun-owners who would actually resist, particularly armed resistance, would be astoundingly small compared to the bluster and bloviating done by millions of internet arm-chair Keyboard Kommandos.

Besides, what would YOU do if a SWAT team stood at your door with a warrant, or whatever is needed, to search your premises for weapons? Would you have a shoot-out with them? I doubt it. They would leave with every firearm in your house, and you would be left sitting and wondering what happened. Talk is cheap. Kudos to those who are prepared. Almost none really are.

Besides, what would YOU do if a SWAT team stood at your door with a warrant, or whatever is needed, to search your premises for weapons? Would you have a shoot-out with them? I doubt it. They would leave with every firearm in your house...

FRiend, I don't think you've thought this through, nor do I believe that "most Americans" would give up their weapons as easily as you appear to be willing to do. In fact, I'd submit that most new gun owners have joined our ranks precisely because they no longer trust this government, nor hold it in high regard. Do you really believe that they'd be so quick to surrender their weapons? Note how many weapons, expensive weapons, have been purchased in an otherwise down economy, and think about the message behind that.

Of course no one with any sense would seek to have an armed confrontation in such conditions as you mention. However, think 4GW - do you really believe that those who gave such orders, who live here among us and not not an ocean away, would be immune from eventual consequences?

What makes you believe that every firearm will necessarily be stored in the same place? Maybe there are some "low hanging fruit" pieces available for confiscation in such an eventuality, but maybe some stored elsewhere too... Especially once word gets out that this is coming.

You decry the "bluster" of "internet arm-chair Keyboard Kommandos", but I suggest that Americans are an ornery, clever, independent-minded bunch, and even if some of those you seem to look down on might be all hat and no cattle, there are most certainly many who would just keep their mouths shut, and become a royal pain in the a$$.

Take a look at post # 24, regarding CT and NY non-compliance.

Also, in smalltown USA where I live, everyone knows police officers and sheriff’s deputies and where they live. Food for thought.

We disagree is all.
I do not see most Americans as doing what you predict.
Very few, IMHO.

But anyways, its just my opinion.
Thanks,

Besides, what would YOU do if a SWAT team stood at your door with a warrant, or whatever is needed, to search your premises for weapons? Would you have a shoot-out with them? I doubt it.

I will die anyway at some point on this earth. Why not die for a higher calling, such as standing up for the 2A?

Yes, I would be and am willing to die to protect what is mine, if a thug tries to take it or someone from Fedgov tries to take it.

I understand my mortality; the fact that I do is the greatest threat to them should they ever try anything.

A few things for you to consider:

1. The SWAT raids will succeed - at first and for a while. Then they will begin to encounter the kind of resistance that will ensure that at least some of them will not be going home.

2. The ones who send them will find their lives have become nasty, brutish and short m

3. All of them have families and friends.

4. There will be no rules of engagement - only retaliation and retribution.