“...the confiscation will be by attrition. Much of it will be by state and local police, who, in NJ, NY [CT] and California already confiscate personal firearms.”
First of all, confiscation is an act of the state, attrition is a process over time. There is no confiscation without registration, and Congress will never pass a law creating a national gun registry. It’s third rail deadly to even try.
Each of those states have experienced massive noncompliance with ex post facto turn in laws. State police chiefs growl at the cameras, but no one’s sent out the paddy wagons just yet.
There have been attempts to confiscate guns when a FOID holder dies, but huge blowback resulted and in a nutshell, governors aren’t in a hurry to call out the National Guard & impose martial law.
Confiscations which did occur in the New Orleans area after Katrina resulted in a backlash of laws in other states forbidding authorities to confiscate just because of a hurricane or such.
Your serve.
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I know the meaning of "confiscation" and "attrition." And I agree with you that forcing mass compliance would be problematic today.
If you have no problem with Hillary's attitude toward the second amendment, or have no concern about the government effort to somehow get guns out of the hands of the public, that's fine with me. I laid out what I think the future holds, whether Hillary is leading the charge this generation, or some other despot 20, 50 or more years from now. No country stands up to the passage of time, and the USA is not immune. Your bluster dies when you do. Mine too, when I do.