Took place - January of last year:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/05/us-shooting-utah-idUSTRE8040FO20120105
One pot-using and asleep criminal (who was also a veteran of the US Army) vs. Narco-Strike Force
I am of the mind that resistance to gun seizures would overwhelm and stop measures to seize guns. The government knows this.
This was ONE vet, who was illegally growing (and using) pot - no value call - those things are illegal. He had a Beretta 92F (for the uninformed - a 15 shot 9mm self loading pistol - standard issue pistol of the US military).
No-knock warrant was served, by a law enforcement anti-narcotics "Strike Force". They were all kitted up (body armor)and had massive fire superiority (M4's true, select fire assault rifles, shotguns and .40 cal Glocks - more powerful than the 9mm at least objectively).
The criminal (and he is a criminal - I do not excuse his conduct, just using it as an example - he was growing for distribution and using a illegal drug), was awoken from sleep by the police smashing his door in.
Skip to the end? Five officers seriously wounded and one dead.
One vet, non-combat arms MOS, one pistol - think he was Signal Corps. No insult intended to SC - the SC guys I knew were good soldiers and communicators - just that most of them spent their time playing video games and calling their girlfriends in their air conditioned Humvees... They didn't get a lot of range time, and no advanced pistol training was given to SC soldiers (or anyone else for that matter). Most soldiers, sailors, Marines and Airmen are not hard-charging killing machines. Most of them are technicians, doing things that do not require guns. A very few veterans have any meaningful "killing skills". Even fewer know anything about CQB and MOUT. There are more civilians out there with more meaningful "combat", "non-permissive, disruptive environment" training out there, than one cares to contemplate. Assuming you could get everyone working (from Green Beret to Office Manager to landscaper to dog catcher) for the .gov to drop their office job, and pick up an M4 to raid the homes of law-abiding gun owners, after a handful of instances with results like these, you'd get a lot of resignations.
Understand that a goodly percentage of .gov employees are law-abiding gun owners. A not-unsubstantial number of those people would refuse the unconstitutional, unlawful, and immoral orders.
Point is: the Government has to think that registering / confiscating the weapons of people (combat vets or just armed citizens) might be a fools errand. Imagine sending a Strike Force like that against someone with a touch of training and an M1A? 168 Grain FMJ vs. body armor at 10-20 feet? The .gov has to take that into account!
I'm hopeful that reason will prevail.
Contact your representatives. Contact the White House. Make noise. Let your voice (no matter where you stand on the issue) be heard.
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