“It will be a co-ordinated massive assault on thousands, perhaps a million high profile gun owners at one time.”
Er, how many will be involved in this “massive assault”?
There aren’t enough personnel to pull that off without giving enormous prior notice to the public.
There will be rumors and leaks that will be denied. A few people will prepare, very few. The military will probably be used and local law enforcement for their SWATs.
“It will be a co-ordinated massive assault on thousands, perhaps a million high profile gun owners at one time.”
Lets take the posited middle ground of 100,000 at one time. You need at least 5 personnel for each raid. That is half a million law enforcement types, all coordinated at one time, with *none* of the people in the know leaking the information to the resistance in advance.
I posit it cannot be done. Probably half of federal law enforcement are at least nominally pro Second Amendment. Probably 5% are enthusiastically pro Second Amendment. Likely 1% take their oaths seriously.
The raids would be telegraphed and the intelligence would go out quickly.
Simply logistically not possible as put forward.
Too many moving parts, too many failure points.
For it to work, you need, at miminum, federal legislation nullifying the Second Amendment.
That would be a huge signal in itself. The resistance against that already dwarfs the resistance against actual confiscation.
So, how do you get there. You have to create a tyranny first.
To do that, you need government control of the Internet.
Lots of pre-event signals that make everyone more nervous and committed to resistance.