While reading through this thread, I found it interesting that this morning's CNN Headline News broadcast mentioned the FBI has a "hiring blitz" going on right now. I find it difficult, however, to believe that house-to-house confiscations discussed here can ever come to reality simply because of the huge amount of manpower resources that would be required, and the obvious danger to those L.E. officers on the front lines given that task.
It comes down to weighing all of the possibilities and choosing what would be most likely if this scenario ever comes to pass. It's a no-brainer that, given our current Congressional leadership and our president-elect's political position while in his Illinois office, the 2nd amendment and our rights are going to be under tremendous pressure in the next 4 years.
But, it's probably more likely that they'll find a way to usurp the 2nd Amendment through other means than direct confrontation. Perhaps tie your gun ownership to your home mortgage and foreclose if you don't voluntarily turn them in? Maybe huge taxes? Kill your credit rating and prevent you from buying anything on credit until you turn your pieces in? The list could be endless.... and there is probably a think tank somewhere in D.C. at this moment working out the creative possibilities to get us all into the gun-free Garden of Eden they'd all like to see.
If you've seen the movie "Shining Through" or "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", both movies had scenes where German citizens were cheering Hitler. He had a huge following - indeed, an entire nation -- that had been brainwashed and ultimately became cultish. They followed him into oblivion and ruination, blind to what was going on behind the scenes while millions were first disarmed under the guise of "common sense security measures", then shipped to death camps.
During this campaign and election, we have witnessed a similar event that some history buffs could possibly correlate to an earlier generation of similar glee and ignorance. Let us all pray that those experts are wrong, and the need to bury the means of protecting oneself guaranteed by the framers of our Constitution never comes.
But I -did- read the article you linked in the first post.
