There are well over 120 million registered firearms in America there are only a few million military and police and they know that.

Citing one (and probably the only example of a) Federally authorized gun confiscation is meaningless. Whatever you may believe; if an American government wanted to confiscate all weapons legally owned there would be lots of bodies in the streets on both sides.

As far as the survivalists hoarding food, arms, ammo and waiting for the "end time" -- this is tin foil hat deranged. Keeping moderate supplies on hand for power outages caused by natural disasters or civil insurrections and arms to protect your property during these events is just advance thinking and should be commended.

We had a power outage here for 2 1/2 days due to severe storms last month -- we sat out in the driveway, it was 100° F during the day, and I brought my Mossberg 500 outside with me at night LOADED with 00, one in the chamber ...(safety on). There were no problems here fortunately.

But there have been events of looting and other criminal activities during these events in the past.