Thank you very much for taking the time to reply in detail. It's great to hear from those in Law Enforcement that value freedom & understand and respect the constitution. All too often it's the very few of the opposite persuasion that make all the headlines.
If you don't mind, here is a couple questions from a more realistic idea of how things will go down, based on history & current events.
Unless the folks pulling the strings on the Communists (Democrats) in this country, actually want an all out civil war, they won't go for an all out, all at once take your guns away. That pretty much historically is never done, even in the truly freedom hating states on the coasts.
Instead what they will do is ratchet up the laws ever more and more restrictive, making more and more things illegal to possess, demanding law abiding freedom loving folks submit to more and more restrictions and controls & cosmetic restrictions. They will gradually ramp up the penalties for stupid stuff and nibble away at what you can have bit by bit. Then they will demand "registration" and make it a crime not to have "registration" or something De Facto like that such as proof you transferred it through an FFL etc. Then they will expand the reasons they can take things away from you and expand the "prohibiting offenses", then they will use taxes and mandatory insurance & the doctors / mental health folks to help strip away the rights of the last remaining few.
Unfortunately history has shown that if you have evil folks in control they will eventually find henchmen to do their bidding even if they have to resort to basically recruiting from criminals & foreign folks.
In my opinion, good officers like yourself are stuck in a bad position due to the evil politicians and bureaucrats that the stupid SJW worshiping people have put into place.
Assuming the above, in a hypothetical situation, have you thought about where you finally draw the line and decide you can't be a part of things anymore & have to retire if you are forced to enforce laws you know are wrong and don't have a choice if you want to keep your job.?
This is assuming that you not complying with the dictates of the political elite that run/influence/control the police departments eventually puts you at odds with "orders" given to you & as such makes them say either do it or get fired. I'm assuming also the ones calling the shots don't like explaining all the details to the police they send, they just say you must go xxx and do xxx
Here is a sample from current events:
You find someone with a firearm that can fire more than 1 round per trigger pull & they haven't paid / been allowed to pay the tax for it & they don't have any intention of giving it up?
You find someone with a bump stock on their AK that the government now says you can't have & they don't have any intention of giving it up?
You find someone with a magazine that holds more rounds than the idiot politicians now allow and extra plastic is now a huge crime?
You find someone has more bullets loaded into their magazine than the communists say they should be able to put in?
You find someone with a firearm that has features that now make it some huge crime to have according the the communists in charge?
You get orders that somebody is accused of throwing their keychain on the kitchen counter in an "angry" manner and you are told to go take their guns, or arrest them for not turning over their guns and they tell you in no uncertain terms they are not going to comply?
You get told to go take someone's guns because their ex wife has gone crying to a judge that they "just don't feel safe" during the divorce and are simply trying to screw their husband over even more and piss them off for spite. And said person tells you in no uncertain terms that they will not comply?
You get told to go remove guns from someone because some relative/neighbor/anyone else with an axe to grind made a false "red flag" report and the subject of said takings stands up for themselves and says, No, the constitution says you have to convict me in a court of law in open court where I get to face my accusers before you can take my rights so (insert favorite retort about procreating with yourself).
You find someone with an "unregistered" gun or that doesn't have a "licence" for guns/whatever and that has become a big crime in your state?
You get told to go "collect" firearms of a class that is now suddenly no longer allowed and the owner has no intention of giving them up?
You come across someone otherwise law abiding that is carrying guns without the approval of the state/city/politicians (if that is even possible in the state by then).
The above are all things taken from active headlines that step by step Democrats/Liberals/SJWs/Communists have been using to disarm the local citizens piecemeal and which in every case there is documented evidence of at least some of the local law enforcement personnel having no problem enforcing.
The problem is that all this has been going on and only getting worse in freedom hating areas that the Communists take over & with a few exceptions of elected independent sheriffs standing up and saying no at some threshold point, it progresses along. Eventually pushing out the freedom loving good folks in Law Enforcement from Communist controlled areas and slowly replacing them with those who will say yes, regardless of qualifications.
It's a bit of a dilemma and I'll admit I have no idea what to do about it, or how to determine who can be counted on to do the right thing & who will do as they are told.
