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That's their plan. It's safe, and they've gained power through the long game, anyway. They're arrogant to believe that they'll hold on to political power forever. The problem with that belief is that a properly stored gun can last a whole lot longer than their dreams.   Thirty or so years ago a friend told me of a guy he knew who was in the woods somewhere along the shores of Tustumena Lake on the Kenai Peninsula some time in the 1970's. He saw something in a tree and fetched it down. It was a pair of old Russian flintlock rifles smeared up with bear grease and wrapped up in a bear hide. They'd been there a long, long time. The guy who put them there probably wasn't hiding them from government gun confiscators, but that idea can work. They can't take something they can't find.           

Fair enough.   Even if they succeed with getting a confiscation program off the ground, I think they could care less about actually collecting the guns - they know the owners are typically more responsible and less dangerous than your average citizen. They'd be just as happy if the guns stayed in owners hands and every once in a while catch an otherwise law abiding, tax paying, family man, and throw them in jail.    While a great deal of the guns banned in the last five years are registered (pistols and AR's), there are many semi-auto rifles that aren't. Judging by the the rush to buy those guns and the premiums they commanded, I suspect compliance will not be high.

Ok, yeah, I'm all for the 2nd Amendment.  I am not, however, for an unconditional right to keep and bear any and all arms. This may be a topic for a different thread, but I have to ask:   Do you see any conditions at all which should be required for a person to maintain the right to keep and bear arms, especially in public places? Who thinks that violent, convicted felons should have the right to carry in public? Who thinks that significantly mentally ill people should have the right to carry in public? Who think that minors should have the right to carry in public? Who thinks that it's ok to mount a loaded howitzer in a city yard and point it at passing cars?   Really not trying to stir the pot, just wondering who feels, or doesn't feel, that any gun restrictions at all are appropriate?    A few years ago, I was inline at a grocery store here (in a not so good part of town).  The man in front of me in line had a large, apparently semi-automatic pistol in a shoulder holster.  His shoulder holster was designed/fitted so that the (surely loaded and likely cocked and 'locked' pistol) was pointed pretty much directly at my face.  I was offended and felt like grabbing that pistol and whipping the idiot with it.  no joke.  Instead I stepped aside so that I was not in the line of fire from an idiot that probably doesn't know $H^T about gun safety and who is probably well above average to have an accidental discharge.  After I checked and walked to my truck, I noticed that they were parked, illegally, in a handicap spot.  That was no surprise of course, just another disappointment in the stupidity and thoughtlessness of many people.  Without reasonable laws and enforcement, the idiots in this world will definitely descend us into chaos. 

They'd be correct. Guns are designed to be tools of deadly force. Their wet dream might end up a nightmare..........

Missed this one!   First buck of the year!