[ChildOfThe60s]

My concern is that if the dollar flops then the government will try to round up all the gold and silver from people who’ve been buying it as a hedge.

It might try that, but most of the people are a great deal less trusting of the government and its intentions than in the 30s.

More likely would be that the feds would make any kind of transactions with gold/silver to be illegal in an attempt to make PMs worthless in a practical sense. Which I don't think would fly.

I suspect that if things got that critical, we would see armed confrontations between citizens and whomever the feds used to enforce their edicts.

[MeganC]

In the event of the latter then blue helmets make for fine targets.