Why is everyone in this thread assuming a firearm confiscation is going to take place? I would rather take the optimistic view that such will not happen in my life time.
It's called a
realistic view of the current Executive Branch of the U.S. Government. It is replete with Communist/Marxist/Socialist/Left-Wing, Liberal-"Progressives". Then, when you connect the dots of recent government agency (DHS) purchasing activities (10 million pistol cartridge .40 caliber 165 grain, jacketed hollow point bullets and 10 million 9mm 115 grain jacketed hollow point bullets, 1.6 million pistol cartridge 9mm ball bullets and 7,000 AR-15s), lack of government concerns over border security (we KNOW the ammo and guns won't be used there), the so-called "Patriot Act" and National Defense Authorization Act (which have
severely abridged our 4th Amendment rights), unreasonable gun control proposals, and the authorized use of "surveillance" UAVs within the CONUS, there is a firm foundation for distrust. Then there's the government coverups of activities such as "Operation Fast & Furious", outright
lies about the Benghazi fiasco when our Libyan Ambassador and 3 other Americans were killed, Presidential "recess appointments" while Congress is
still in-session, and a Congress that lacks the courage to confront the Administration in it's circumvention of the Bill of Rights and other Constitutional issues, there is
sufficient reason to distrust our "leadership". This is a lesson that Native Americans learned the hard way. The "Great White Father" (or, in our case, the Great Grey Father)
does "speak with forked tongue". If you don't like unpleasant surprises, be prepared for them. Pax...