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Are you perhaps referring to the border war that the feds won't fight and sue the states when they do?  

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UN peacekeepers could be brought in to implement the confiscations. Troops from the Congo, France, Belgium, Germany, China, Russia etc etc etc could be tasked with going door to door and searching every home for contraband weapons.

It will never come to that but if it did I'd find out where the Belgian units were and pay a visit. I want me a para SAW  

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The UN? Are you serious? I've worked with and trained the UN.

It would be pebbles at the surf, and the first UN troops would be the same kind of Information Operations disaster than the use of Hessians was.

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Yup...I've worked with the UN before too....fuckin disaster. They're about useless.
They'd turn and insurrection in a full on war.
Nothing like bringing foreign soldiers in to confiscate weapons from law abiding citizens to inflame the situation.
That would a text book example of pouring gasoline onto a fire...

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You over estimate our power! I'm going to pull a number out of my ass 99.99% of NYers will comply because law abiding citizens do that

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Really? You would forfeit your retirement and murder cops over a hobby? You would die from lethal injection, see your wife made penniless, see your children shamed?

Isn't advocating cop killing on this board a permaban offense?

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It doesn't take a whole bunch of really dedicated individuals to destabilize an advanced societal infrastructure.

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You mean act like sheep...........Yeah O.K.........

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On the bonus side of things...

If that did happen, after everything was said and done,  pretty sure the UN's headquarters would go someplace else....

So we'd have that to look forward to at least....

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It doesn't take a whole bunch of really dedicated individuals to destabilize an advanced societal infrastructure.

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This is fact. Its a minor miracle that EF! or ALF hasn't been able to figure out how.

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This has surprised me for years

I am pretty thankful they haven't though.

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This again, huh?

If, if the order ever came down, it would be followed. Certainly not by everyone, but it would be followed.

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There have been a number of cops on this thread, (including myself on page 1) who stated confiscation would not happen.
Since the vast majority of you seem to thing we're either full of shit, or the minority with regards to LE....

Let me use some simple math. Its got to be simple math, because I'm going to be using it, and I'm not a mathematician, or a rocket surgeon.

According to some fast internet searching, (with no claims to the authenticity of the information):

As of 2006 there were approximately 800,000 full time LE in the US. This number includes state, city, university and college, metropolitan and non-metropolitan county, and other law enforcement officers, as well as Federal LE.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_police_officers_are_employed_in_the_United_states
I dont know what the current number of full time LE is in the US. But, since the economy has gone to shit, and the vast majority of agencies have been downsizing or cutting through attrition, I would estimate that number to be lower. But for sake of argument, we'll stick with the 800K number.

According to the ATF, in 1999 there were approximately 215 million privately owned firearms in the US. The NRA estimates approximately half of the homes in the US have firearms. Rough estimates from the link have aproximately 70-80 million gun owners in the US at the time of the link being answered, (which near as I can tell was in June/July of 2004 when the US population was approximately 294 million.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_gun_owners_are_there_in_the_US

As of July 2011, there were 311.5919 million living in the US.
Mouse over the graph and population and date will pop up.
http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=kf7tgg1uo9ude_&met_y=population&idim=country:US&dl=en&hl=en&q=us%20population

Using the NRA estimates of 50% of the population owning firearms and the 2011 information that gives us 155.79579 million gun owners in the US in 2011.

But for sake of argument, lets use the 2004 numbers from the 2nd link and split the difference between the two.

75 million gun owners divided by 800 thousand cops in the US = 93.75

So basically, ALL of the full time cops in the US are outnumbered by gun owners damn near 100 to 1.

So if door to door gun confiscation is ordered at the highest levels, and ALL of the full time cops in the US carry out those orders, if 94% of the gun owners voluntarily surrunder their weapons, without a fight....the cops will have an even one to one fight with those who resist.

That's if ALL of the cops agree to do so, and only 6% of the gun onwers in the US resist.

I'd bet money, ALOT of money, that the actual numbers of gun owners has increased, and the number of full time police have decreased since that information I linked up was posted.

I'd also bet my children's inheritance that no where near 100% of all of the full time cops in the US would carry out those orders. Every cop I've seen post on this thread has stated they wouldnt and either stated they know or know for fact and havent stated it (like me) that at least half of their department would refuse such orders as being Unconstitutional.

Despite GD's thoughts otherwise....most cops arent stupid.
We know what's Unconstitutional, and we dont feel like dying needlessly for stupid people.

Assuming ALL of the fulltime LE officers in the US went door to door confiscating firearms.....

I'd bet the first week would go fairly easily.
Then the internet forums would explode and the word would get out and videos of the confiscations taking place would make it online.
The second week, you'd start to see resistance. There would deaths on both sides. This would completely inflame gun owners and would definately shake the determination of the rank and file cops who are dying in an attempt to confiscate firearms. You would begin to see resignations and desertions from the ranks.
The third week, the body counts would be so high on the LE side of things, you wouldnt have enough officers left to make a serious effort at confiscation. Those that tried would die. Everyone else would quit.
There would not be a fourth week of confiscation.

So if you refuse to believe the LEO's on the site here who have stated there would be no confiscation because it's Unconstitutional and they would refuse...

Look at the simple math....

It doesnt matter if we were lying about it when we ALL said we wouldnt confiscate guns. We simply dont have the manpower to go door to door to confiscate your guns. We'd lose.
Period.

That's the God's honest truth folks.....it really is that simple.

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Sure those wacky police unions that ALWAYS support more gun control don't reflect the majority of their member's wishes. Do these gun grabbers that always speak for the police unions stuff the ballot box or something?

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They have a way of calling a "board meeting" and deciding all on there own. The last time that happened (94) the president of the local got called out and informed my a VERY large SWAT officer that it would behoove said board to put it to a vote of the membership. Well they did and it shut them up within hours, 80+% of the membership voted and 90% against the position. With most of the remainder stating that they shouldn't even take a position. Now keep in mind that this was a local/state thing, not the national office. But the issue almost unwound the entire organization at the state level. I currently don't know if they have even made a statement after Sandy Hook. But the web site has no mention of one, I think they learned their lesson from last time.

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seriously? that would be a special kind of moron.  

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It's tough for both sides. Police won't want to enforce this, but if people resist, then they will be labeled domestic terrorists. Then the hammer will come down on all terrorists, foreign and domestic.

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The UN? Are you serious? I've worked with and trained the UN.

It would be pebbles at the surf, and the first UN troops would be the same kind of Information Operations disaster than the use of Hessians was.

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Never, not a single one.  Totally unconstitutional.