Sounds like a place where an old Colt 45 might be useful. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a serf.
With all due respect, one man who gets into a shootout with an armed crowd that is supported if necessary by a fairly modern military is generally known as a dead man.
You can certainly make a case that it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees, but one shouldn’t really imply that armed resistance by this farmer would have resulted in the government thugs backing down and leaving the farmer in possession of his property.
Any more than it worked out that way for Randy Weaver.