In recent history,what gives you the idea gun owners will do anything like you suggested ? Unlike basement dwelling Antifa beta cucks,the vast majority of gun owners will do exactly nothing when it comes to resistence,much less armed resistence due to family and jobs.
How many guys would be willing to leave their wife and kids to fend for themselves after your local police department Bearcat crashes through the front door and 100 State Police in Multicam fill you full of 9mm holes from their taxpayer bought MP5 ?
I'm willing to bet a whole lot of money the vast majority lay down their weapons and submit.I dont think most people realize the scope and power of the .gov when it comes to squashing peasants..Look what happened in Boston after the marathon bombing.
The thing is they're not going to crash through the door. They will just wait. Look at CT as an example. Shitloads of people didn't turn thier shit in or register it. The state did nothing. No drama. Just new stupid laws, and attrition siphoning off gun owners etc, over time. The state is just fine with felons in waiting, attrition, etc. The gummint/institutional antis are generally not that dumb to go straight down that road again.... they're not going to intentionally cast themselves into a right wing/populist rendition of "The Producers: gun control edition" etc. They'd rather deal with "us" as one off ERPO / 209A / traffic stop nutbags, etc. or just wait until we die, and our kids or the next generation gets rid of our shit because guns are viewed as a "hazard" by them, etc because of indoctrination, etc. That kind of thing. That's literally the cheap way out for them, and its likely to be much more effective. Even CA with its black vans has basically confined their stuff to one offs; eg, people they can easily cast as some kind of criminal or danger to the public, etc. And since there's only a loose correlation, nobody has any idea when they will even show up.
Running around and collecting a ton of guns by force = they lose control of the public narrative quickly
Waiting people out picking off one offs = they get to maintain control of the public narrative indefinitely and slowly skew perception over time to the statist BS
way.
-Mike