What Would Happen if the Government Banned Firearms and Tried to Confiscate Our Guns?
Posted by Robbie Cooper on 1/1/2013 Add comments
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If you read the summary of Sen. Diane Feinstein’s proposed assault weapons ban (read it here on her Senate page) it’s very clear that — despite having no idea what an assault weapon actually is, or how it differs from a semi-automatic hunting rifle (hint: it doesn’t) — Feinstein’s ultimate motive is no different than it was back in 1995when she was for the complete ban and confiscation of ALL weapons from American citizens:
Dianne Feinstein: “If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States, for an outright ban, picking up [every gun]… Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in.”
I was discussing Feinstein’s newest assault on our second amendment rights last night with some neighbors — men who have spent more hours hunting and shooting guns than most people spend watching television. Then I brought up this 1995 video. Our conversation naturally turned to “what if…” scenarios and how they would unfold.
 A rifle behind very blade of grass. And blending into every tree.
As in, “What if…the government banned all semi-automatic weapons and ordered them be turned in or confiscated from US citizens who would not do so voluntarily?”
We all quickly agreed a violent revolution and rebellion would occur almost immediately. Most, if not all, members of Congress who voted for the ban/confiscation would be assassinated. In fact, what Bob Owens describes in this post “What You’ll See At the Revolution” is exactly what we described would happen.
Tens of millions of Americans will refuse to comply with an order that is clearly a violation of the explicit intent of the Second Amendment. Among the most ardent opposing these measures will be military veterans, active duty servicemen, and local law enforcement officers. Many of these individuals will refuse to carry out what they view as Constitutionally illegal orders. Perhaps 40-50 million citizens will view such a law as treason. Perhaps ten percent of those, 4-5 million, would support a rebellion in some way, and maybe 40,000-100,000 Americans will form small independently-functioning active resistance cells, or become lone-wolves.
They will be leaderless, stateless, difficult to track, and considering the number of military veterans that would likely be among their number, extremely skilled at sabotage, assassination, and ambush.
After a number of carefully-planned, highly-publicized, and successful raids by the government, one or more will invariably end “badly.” Whether innocents are gunned down, a city block is burned to ash, or especially fierce resistance leads to a disastrously failed raid doesn’t particularly matter. What matters is that when illusion of the government’s invincibility and infallibility is broken, the hunters will become the hunted.
Which very closely follows the thoughts described in this oft-linked and -discussed post: “What I Saw At The Coup”.
And the very first prey that would find themselves in the scopes of the rebels would be the members of Congress who passed this ban and the members of the media who have been their willing mouthpieces and agents of propaganda.
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Pam says:
1/1/2013 at 6:08 pm
Robbie,
Would like to get your opinion on the article. Is this BS? Discusses DHS working with local law enforcement and gaining their buy in at disarming the citizenry. bit.ly
Happy New Year and thanks for your service.
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Robbie Cooper says:
1/1/2013 at 7:15 pm
I think it’s bunk, for a lot of reasons that Bob Owen’s spelled out in his article. Mainly, lots of local law enforcement would also fall into the group of private gun owners who would be required to turn in their personal weapons. Or their wife’s. Or their brothers, parents, and cousins. And lots more of those same LEOs are also private military, who also take very seriously their oath to support and protect the Constitution.
And, finally, local law enforcement would be seriously out-manned and out-gunned if they started trying to confiscate guns. The entirety of the Austin Police Dept. wouldn’t be able to confiscate just the guns from our smallish neighborhood of ~200 homes. It wouldn’t take the massacre of too many police officers before they refused to follow the order and/or joined the rebellion.
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the_enforcer says:
1/2/2013 at 2:48 am
You are dead on… almost. I work for a large law enforcement agency in your area, but per agency policy I cannot say which one since I don’t want to be accused of speaking for the agency or its officers in an official capacity.
Let me say that I have spoken with a few other supervisors and officers (the ones I trust enough to discuss such matters) at my agency about this issue, and I can tell you with a reasonable level of confidence that if we were ordered to go out and confiscate firearms from law abiding Americans, a large number of officers, possibly even more than 50%, would flat out refuse to do so… not because the officers are afraid of getting into the resultant gunfights, but because most people I know in law enforcement actually love the Constitution, and remember that we swore an oath to defend it.
The only thing I would disagree with you on is the comment about the entirety of the APD not being able to disarm your neighborhood. With 1700 (plus or minus) officers, your neighborhood could be disarmed, but not without heavy casualties on both sides. But like I said above, probably half of those Officers would refuse to follow the unlawful order. The resultant internal chaos at APD would make it virtually impossible to carry out even day to day law enforcement operations, let alone organize some sort of massive tactical operation with the few Officers that are willing to attempt to carry it out… as far as trying to disarm an entire city with over 600,000 residents, that would be absolutely impossible without a full scale military occupation…
I think even Obama is not ignorant enough to attempt such folly…. |
