What are the chances of confiscation by the government?

[Reality Jones]

I can't imagine the current Goverment having a chance at organising themselves or another 'private agency' in a major event. you only have to look at how they were totaly caught out by the recent riots and how long it took them to react to what was going on to see that they are useless and unprepared.

I think we give them too much credit when we assume that someone in an office will have the time to print out a list or at the very least email a list of gun owners to a local cop shop, and then that cop shop will have the time or resources to get a copper or two to knock on your door and demand your shotgun and ammo.
If the powers that be know in advance of an impending disaster, be it natural or man made (economic) they will be too busy packing their own suitcase and heading for that nice little bunker that was built during the cold war to give a stuff about the working classes and their petty squabbles.
They will let the masses tear themselves apart for a few months before they emerge from the rubble to take back control, that's when it's time to worry, when a Goverment desperate to regain control descends upon on a crippled society that has run low on food and resources.