When They Come For Your Guns . . . You Will Turn Them Over

[erowe1]

There is not the manpower required to do door to door search. If you get a visit, the outcome has already been decided, and your visitors are leaving with (A) the number and type of guns on their list OR (B) you OR both (A) and (B). You get to determine how many visitors leave.

Or they get a warrant to search your house because they have probable cause that you have illegal guns there. They ransack the place, don't find any illegal guns, and you're left to take care of the mess. But you're not in prison, and your guns are still wherever you put them.

 

[Pericles]

Or they get a warrant to search your house because they have probable cause that you have illegal guns there. They ransack the place, don't find any illegal guns, and you're left to take care of the mess. But you're not in prison, and your guns are still wherever you put them.

They won't take that risk if it has already come that far:

[SIZE=+1]The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.[/SIZE]

 

[erowe1]

They won't take that risk if it has already come that far:

[SIZE=+1]The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.[/SIZE]

There are practical matters that they wouldn't be able to ignore as easily as they can the Constitution. They don't really know who has what guns. They do in some cases and in others they have some information that gives them some probabilities. But for the most part they don't know for sure. If they arrested everyone they suspected of having guns that they didn't turn in, that's that many more people in prison to pay for and that many fewer tax payers to fund it. On top of this would be the challenge of keeping the rest of the country content with what they're doing. This would be far more difficult and expensive for the regime than the war on drugs is, and it wouldn't have the backing of the same amount of special interests who would profit from it (apart from private prisons).

 

[Pericles]

There are practical matters that they wouldn't be able to ignore as easily as they can the Constitution. They don't really know who has what guns. They do in some cases and in others they have some information that gives them some probabilities. But for the most part they don't know for sure. If they arrested everyone they suspected of having guns that they didn't turn in, that's that many more people in prison to pay for and that many fewer tax payers to fund it. On top of this would be the challenge of keeping the rest of the country content with what they're doing. This would be far more difficult and expensive for the regime than the war on drugs is, and it wouldn't have the backing of the same amount of special interests who would profit from it (apart from private prisons).

Which is why there is unlikely to be any targeted searches for weapons - the targets are the people who would be considered a threat.

 

[erowe1]

Which is why there is unlikely to be any targeted searches for weapons - the targets are the people who would be considered a threat.

I really don't know. I at least think that searches for weapons is a contingency gun owners should prepare for. I wouldn't say that having a good hiding place is useless because you're just going to get arrested anyway.