whitehead is always longer than usual for links i provide on this blog and he's also passing on lots of details of things you may wish to be aware of, and in this case its the hated gun, and why you may wish to keep yours in the face of government opposition;

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”—George Santayana

We never learn.
In the right (or wrong) hands, benevolent plans can easily be put to malevolent purposes.
Even the most well-intentioned government law or program can be—and has been—perverted, corrupted and used to advance illegitimate purposes once profit and power are added to the equation.
The war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on illegal immigration, asset forfeiture schemes, road safety schemes, school safety schemes, eminent domain: all of these programs started out as legitimate responses to pressing concerns and have since become weapons of compliance and control in the police state’s hands.
Mark my words: red flag gun laws, which allow the police to remove guns from people suspected of being threats, will only add to the government’s power.
These laws, growing in popularity as a legislative means by which to seize guns from individuals viewed as a danger to themselves or others, are yet another Trojan Horse, a stealth maneuver by the police state to gain greater power over an unsuspecting and largely gullible populace.
Thirteen states now have red flag laws on their books. That number is growing...........https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/11/john-w-whitehead/red-flag-gun-laws-yet-another-government-weapon-for-compliance-and-control/