I don't know. I wish I could answer that question. I started this thread You can have my guns when you pry them from my cold, dead hands...or not. to answer that very question.

Unfortunately, it raised more questions than answers...Here is what I have figured out so far...

1. I can't fight off a SWAT team. So if the gov't wants to take them, they can...
2. The blueprint for confiscation is already in place, with precedents.
3. The promises of our officials and our inaliable rights go out the window if martial law is declared, or a national emergency, or any other catch-phrase they want to use.
4. The second that the gov't gained access to weaponry that was too sophisticated or lethal for civilian use, we became 'subjects'.
5. It will probably happen in our lifetime, and I don't think there is a dang thing we can do about it.
6. Any armed resistance would be passed off as crack pots/Keresh/Waco type incidents and would be a rallying point for the Brady Bunch.
7. I don't believe there will be much resistance, because it will happen on a 'local'/temporary scale, and before we knew it wasn't local, or temporary, we would be disarmed.
8. Much like the smoking ban, where it was tried 12 or 13 times, and struck down easily every time, until everybody assumed it would get struck down and stopped paying attention...Then it passed.
9. A Representative form of government has outlived it's usefullness. The reason we went to a representative based gov't was because towns got too big for town meetings. People lived too far away to communicate/travel to vote on issues. Technology has put us all a few keystrokes away.
10. A gov't big enough to give you what you want is big enough to take it away.
11. The ban will probably start with ammo, in the form of restrictions that make it cost prohibitive to purchase. Either by regulating primers and gunpowder as Hazmat, or serialization. Along with higher taxes on ammo.


My solution...get out and vote, put the strongest constitutionalists into power. Work to overturn 'common sense gun laws', because we have to start eroding the traction and getting rid of the precedents that they have already set. Inform as many people as we can about these types of illegal activity by our own gov't. Press our politicians to follow up with these investigations.

My best solution is the following, and it would take work, time, and organization, but here it goes...
If you see an anti/propaganda type show, jot down the commercials that played on air, make a list of these companies, and write to those companies explaining why you will no longer purchase their products.

That's the best I have so far. And unfortunately, during a local crisis or emergency, I'm afraid none of it will be effective.