Eight Ways The Tyrannical US Government Can Shut Down Your Bullshit Rebellion Without Bothering To Confiscate Your Guns
Let's assume (strictly for the sake of argument) that you've joined a group of Second Amendment Fundamentalists like yourself, and you're prepared to fight against the Tyrannical US Government to resist their diabolical plan to come and confiscate your guns. Congratulations! You are part of a proud American tradition, though it's debatable whether that tradition is that of rebellion against authority or the tradition of being batshit crazy. In either case, in order to demonstrate how feeble you are in placing your faith in your guns and your guns alone, let me list a few ways the government can fuck with you without even bothering to take your guns away.
1. Declare you to be a terrorist. Once you have definitely decided to make war on the US government, you are officially a terrorist. You are now fair game for all sorts of measures, up to and including disappearing your ass in a US black site or just, you know, drone-bombing you. Yes, these things are basically unconstitutional. Good luck arguing that now, terrorist. But let's assume that the government has decided that it doesn't want you dead or disappeared. Now that you're officially a terrorist, there are lots and lots and lots of ways the US Government can legally screw you and your ragtag band of miscreants - again, without even actually taking your guns.
2. Take Your Car. If you're driving out on the highway with the license plate that's registered to you, they will find you and they will stop you. I guess you can opt to get into a shootout with the cops, but I think we all know where that will end.
3. Stop you from flying. Without your car, you're going to have a hard time moving around the country (or the world, you fucking traitor) to meet with your fellow rebels. You could try to fly, but even if you're travelling under an assumed name, you can't be packing when you board that plane. Maybe you should go Amtrak.
4. Freeze Your Financial Assets. Hey, you're a terrorist. Your bank accounts? Your 401(k)? Your stock portfolio? Say goodbye to all that. Nobody ever said freedom was free.
5. Deny you the use of your credit/ATM cards. We all know who wears the pants in the marriage between Uncle Sam and Mrs. Wall Street. He does what he's told, we know. There's one exception: When Sam tells a bank to stop any and all transactions by a terrorist, they get stopped. By now, you're thinking you need an assumed identity, forged credentials, and anonymous piles of cash. Gold, maybe.
6. Track you via your internet access and cell phone, and/or block access to communications networks. Because the government has a cozy relationship with all the telecommunications providers, they pretty much have unfettered access to your communications. There's lots they can do even without actually decrypting your traffic, and if you manage to make yourself a high enough priority target, they can do that, too. Much of what they will do doesn't even require a warrant. You might consider ditching the cell phone entirely: even when you think it's off, it can be pinging cell towers, telling the network where it is. It's true you can try to do what al Queda and the Mob do, and arrange to use one-time-only cell phones. Of course that's going to take big piles of cash to arrange.
7. Jam your radios. So you and your buddies think, hey, OK, we don't have cell phones or internet, but we can just use radio for communications. Right? Actually, not only have you made yourselves easier to track, you've also made yourselves easier to jam. Without tactical communications, those firefights you're fantasizing about are going to be over pretty quick.
8. Deny Your GPS. You'll know you've really made it to the big time if the government decides to deny you the use of GPS signals. By the way, remember who owns those satellites? It's non-trivial for them to jam yours without causing problems for themselves, so if they're doing this to you, you have truly arrived.
So if you really want to protect your guns against the Tyrannical US Government, you're going to have to learn how to live a little differently. Convert all your finances to cash, and keep it in the house. (Or bury it!) Become an expert at camping and wilderness survival. Learn to hunt. Make sure to become an expert at orienteering. Stock up on false documents and become an expert in disguise, as well as in cryptography and/or steganography. Just remember that you're not going to have any help when the shit hits the fan, so don't fantasize that you'll actually be able to run a coordinated rebellion. In the end, you'll just be a lone criminal hiding out, stealing food and supplies wherever you can, waiting for the inevitable day when they do catch you. But until that day, you will have your guns.
What is my point? Only this: your fantasy that you will someday participate in some kind of "Red Dawn"/"Turner Diaries"-style rebellion against the government is a perfectly delightful fantasy to cherish, but don't ever imagine it'll be anything more than that. And we should stop allowing the existence of this stupid fantasy to dictate our policy decisions around guns.