No, I did not serve in the military. DQ'ed for service because of messed-up kidneys. Tried the Navy literally about 3 months after my first surgery at 21yrs old. (Kind of sad for me, one of very few in my family not serve and not by my choice.)
I have alot of respect for those that serve honorably.
If things got to the point of nationwide confiscation, MANY military personnel WOULD either divide or desert upon receiving such an order.
The majority of REMAINING people would simply follow orders and do as they are told by their superiors. This could because they are INTENTIONALLY GIVEN MISINFORMATION BY THE AFOREMENTIONED SUPERIORS.
I am not talking about ALL law enforcement. The regular beat cops for the most part are good people and deserve credit for what they do. However, I think most will agree that the chiefs of police in many large metro areas are closer to being politicians than actual cops who perform their civil duties.
Sadly, they are the ones in charge of giving the orders to the regular guys (and gals) on the street. Just like the military many will refuse the orders and simply quit and again those that remain will not be the ones you really want doing the job.
Here is a MAJOR underlying problem in our country:
The Federal government has MADE the individual states OVERLY DEPENDENT on them for both finance and defensive puposes. The Federal government has grown so large (as an entity), its powers so over-reaching (into what should be states issues), has influence of private industry (auto an wall-street bail-outs) that it really NO LONGER needs the support of the GENERAL population. Rather, all that is required is to have people PRIMARILY in APPOINTENTED positions to strong arm DESIRED policies through any opposition by cutting off funding or aid in other areas.
The educational, utility, and transportation systems rely heavily on money rationed out by the FEDERAL government. The National Guard (a good group of people who really care about their country) are funded, supplied and controlled by the FEDERAL government. There are few (if any) actual organized state militias anymore. ALL that WE HAVE is ourselves (as citizens) to insure our rights. Those are all facts!
The Founding Fathers understood all these things and dealt with them during the formation of this Republic.
Now going somewhat into tin-foil hat territory....
One would hope (and IMO in some of the better states they would) that if things ever started to breakdown from the Federal government passing too many unjust laws (IMO national confiscation could be an example of such), the state and local LE communities would fill the role of a makeshift state militia with the help of citizen volunteers. Like I said, this starts to get into the obscure and hopefully unlikely stuff territory... so I'm not really going to go on about it anymore than what had already been discussed.
-Ed
P.S. I do truly believe that a national registry (even if not initially) will be used at some point for confiscation or at least monitoring purposes. This based on the history of nearly every single nationwide weapons registry in the last 100 years.
