The Digital Gulag: Why Team Tyranny Won’t Need Door-Kickers to Enforce the Coming Gun Bans

There is currently a lot of attention being paid to new Democrat-proposed gun control laws, particularly House Bill 127, which would require national registration and licensing of all firearms, would ban broad categories of semi-automatic weapons, ban most ammunition magazines, and so on. One of the most frequent replies to these proposed laws is that there are not enough local or federal SWAT Team door-kickers to go house to house on gun confiscation raids, and if they tried, they would 1. soon run out of door-kickers and 2. instigate Civil War Two.
But in the modern digital era, I believe that Team Tyranny won’t have to do much door-to-door gun confiscation. I think that a few show-piece gun confiscation raids using overwhelming force at 4AM (that are designed for network TV audiences) will be sufficient. Instead, they’ll just send citizens a notice by text, email and registered snail-mail that they already know what newly-illegal guns they possess. This list will be based on AI programs scraping and data-mining your social media history, credit card purchases, and all past FFL sales records, which surely will be collected as part of the new law.
All of this information will be knitted together much the way that the IRS does business. I borrowed this paradigm from “Old Curmudgeon” on a Free Republic thread:
“Have you noticed how the IRS manages to enforce the tax laws? Every taxable transaction is documented by multiple parties so that one party’s failure to report will be revealed by the another party’s paperwork. Then the person who violated the tax law is made an example of, a horrible example, causing reasonable people to be very afraid of the IRS. They will use a similar method to end gun ownership.”
And don’t think for a minute that they won’t get all the gun sales records, once they pass their “Emergency Measures To Prevent Domestic Terrorism Act.”
So how will they plan to separate you from your now-illegal guns? You’ll be notified that next Thursday at 9AM is your designated time to appear at a certain address, perhaps your local police station, or perhaps a big-box store parking lot, with said newly-illegal firearms and ammo magazines. Current Covid vaccine distribution gives them a model for this new system. Instead of going to get a Covid shot, you’ll be going to turn in the newly banned guns on the list.
Many people will refuse to do so. A week later, they will be totally disappeared from social media. Digitally disappeared. This makes it hard to complain about your treatment.
If you send an email about your situation to your local news station, they will automatically get a warning email just ahead of yours, or your email will be contained inside of a red flashing “warning box.” This is how the CCP keeps the comrades in line in Communist China. ChiCom programmers are already working with silicon valley to get Team Tyranny, both government and private sector, up to speed on these protocols.
You’ll get more official warnings to turn in the newly illegal guns that they know you have. Serial numbers won’t matter much, they’ll have your own prior social media “confessions,” along with those proud pictures you posted at the range, along with your credit card history, etc. You bought ten P-Mags, a chest rig, a “drop-in” trigger and a new buffer spring? They know you have an AR. And you can assume that the sales records of FFL dealers will all be collected under the new “emergency” gun control law.
You still won’t comply? You’re doxed at work. Your company “can’t take the risk” of employing you after they get secret back-channel warnings from the DHS. You and your wife the school teacher or nurse will be unemployed. How are you going to pay your mortgage? Your kids’ tuition bill? Your car payment? Again, as a DHS-suspected “domestic terror threat” you can’t get the local news to touch the story.
Next step: your ATM card is frozen. Then your credit cards. Then your bank drops you. Still a hard case? Your electricity arrives intermittently. Then it stops altogether. Then your water is cut off. The local news will still not touch your story, since they have been warned about the dangerous domestic terror threat from people like you.
Team Tyranny won’t need to conduct many door-to-door gun raids. They’ll just lock you inside a digital gulag in your own house.
And if you freak out in anger and rage and try to get revenge, who will you go after? Washington DC is now behind a razor-wire-topped wall guarded by thousands of troops, so forget that. Your local police chief? Your mayor? Who do you go after? If you do target them, then you are a domestic terrorist, and they’ll kill you, or at least arrest you and send you to a real prison. (The local gun-collection points might become a sporadic random target, but they will be very well guarded by SWAT counter-snipers etc.)
These are just some thoughts of mine about how the new gun bans might be rolled out and enforced. Do I know for a fact that this is how Team Tyranny will enforce an American gun ban? No. But it’s worth considering, at least more than just saying “they don’t have enough door kickers!”
They won’t need many door kickers. The Digital Gulag might be enough.
I spoke about this on Infowars last Thursday:
“The Digital Gulag is Practice for Extermination”
19,698 views / Feb 25, 2021[My title was just “The Digital Gulag,” they added the rest.]  

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About the Author: Matt Bracken

Old frogman, sailor, boat builder, novelist and essayist. Matthew Bracken was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1957, and attended the University of Virginia, where he received a BA in Russian Studies and was commissioned as a naval officer in 1979. Later in that year he graduated from Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training, and in 1983 he led a Naval Special Warfare detachment to Beirut, Lebanon. Since then he’s been a welder, boat builder, charter captain, ocean sailor, essayist and novelist. He lives in North Florida. Links to many of Matt’s short stories and essays may be found at EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com, along with excerpts from his five novels: the Enemies Foreign and Domestic series, Castigo Cay and The Cliffs of Zerhoun. His essays and short stories can be found in “The Bracken Collection: Essays and Short Fiction 2010 to 2019”. All of his short stories and essays may be reproduced on the internet, in part or in whole, as long as proper attribution is given, and they are not sold for profit without the permission of the author.

157 Comments

  1. Babu March 2, 2021 at 09:41

    There are states where this scenario would be possible. If you live in one of those, move.

    • Johnny Paratrooper March 2, 2021 at 13:37

      There is nowhere to run to. I still don’t understand this mindset. The federal government doesn’t need permission to arrest you. That’s a bunch of Hollywood nonsense. All they do is say “Hey, we are doing this: Help or don’t help” and the local PD says “Yes” every time.

  2. 71M March 2, 2021 at 09:56

    Matt:
    Transactions”spoor”, tracking ( phone, vehicle), emails, membership will lasso a person/address rather quickly.
    If one has any assets, well, lots of leverage for Team Tyrants.
    How far will this go? Until Socialists reach their total control.
    How fast? We are now spectators of full Leftists launch 2021.
    How will we, ummm, ( fill in the blank).

  3. Anonymous March 2, 2021 at 10:15

    5

  4. Matt Bracken March 2, 2021 at 10:16

    Radical Gun Control Bill Introduced in the House
    Why it violates the Second Amendment and Americans’ due process rights.
    Tue Mar 2, 2021 Joseph Klein
    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/03/radical-gun-control-bill-introduced-house-joseph-klein/

    • Luke March 2, 2021 at 11:28

      I have been thinking along similar lines MB but I do listen to your weekly podcast with Fernando. I read you “Music Stops” essay last July thereabouts and was amazed at the accuracy. I have a good job and such and this puts a knot in my stomach. The Orc armies of the left will have nothing to stop them if we are forced to surrender our guns. Even if I am able to keep grandpas old rifle and shotgun it doesn’t give much comfort to know the vast majority will be helpless. Well at least from the perspective of where they stand today.
      There’s a lot on the left who actually believe in the purpose (actual purpose) of the 2nd amendment. If everyone resists en masse and stands together we can perhaps capitalize on this over reach should it occur. “I am sorry I lost my guns and mags and/or they were stolen.” “Should I have reported that?” “And you want to lock down my money and ability to feed my family unless you can search my home and properties?” That could be playing with fire. I think the pressure needs to be put on governors to push back. I don’t think it does any good to call them or write emails threatening to not vote for them but it would help to encourage people like DeSantis and Noem to stand up and do what is right.
      If they are going to try and disarm us this will be the direction I am certain of it. Guns will still be out there though in the hands of gangs and other violent criminals. I explained this to a girlfriend of mine who refuses to own a gun that she still indirectly benefits from the fact that she actually could carry one. Once the vast majority are disarmed these people will be easy pickings. Hell most of us will be and it might be time for the CCP to come on over the border.

    • Readers March 2, 2021 at 13:13

      Kobayashi Maru it is then… what do you suggest we do?

    • SOG March 2, 2021 at 14:15

      https://throwflame.com/products/x15-flamethrower/
      they havent banned these yet!
      ;)
      but all joking aside wtf can we do? but resist..

      • NC Scout March 2, 2021 at 14:43

        The first thing you do is dump social media.

  5. Bongo March 2, 2021 at 10:35

    Sounds more than plausible – may be the case in very near future — but you will have time to get some… we’re all gonna die – it’s just how

  6. SemperFido March 2, 2021 at 10:37

    Matt I never fail to be impressed with your insight.

  7. Johnny Paratrooper March 2, 2021 at 10:38

    Basically everyone will have an automatic “Bench Warrant” for non-compliance.
    At which point are “Persona Non Grata”. Which translates to “Person Not Welcome”.
    Don’t forget, they will run news stories about how there are aluminum, copper, brass, and steel shortages, and turning in our guns and ammo, and old lawnmowers, will correct the commodities market.
    This is a disaster. How did we let this happen.

    • Rob157 March 7, 2021 at 19:51

      We tried to warn you 30 years ago.

      • Patriotman March 7, 2021 at 21:20

        Who is the “we”, and who is the “you”?

  8. Phillip Bromley March 2, 2021 at 11:35

    As your credit cards are being frozen, your bank accounts seized, your utilities shut off, and your employment terminated, remember: They are trying to achieve your submission without the use of violence. The power to deny them that courtesy rests solely in your hands.

  9. Hillbilly jack March 2, 2021 at 11:48

    Matt,
    Looks like we will have some new citizens in the show me state!
    Missouri HB 85
    Also Governor Parsons was key in passing our stand your ground and castle laws.
    It’s my understanding that only Texas and Missouri allow the use of deadly force to protect property.
    This is why the Soros DA in St Louis can’t get anything to stick the couple in St Louis with.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh0mxnh4e28

    • TLAP March 2, 2021 at 14:41

      FYI, While Missouri has adopted “Stand Your Ground” and the “Castle Doctrine” be aware that this does NOT allow one to use deadly force to defend property absent the imminent threat of death or great bodily injury as well.
      https://statelaws.findlaw.com/missouri-law/missouri-self-defense-laws.html
      “However, case law suggests it does not go so far as permitting the use of deadly force to merely protect property. In 2016, the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Eastern District held in State v. Whipple that deadly force under the castle doctrine can only be used when you reasonably believe such force is necessary to protect yourself or someone else from “the use or imminent use of unlawful force.”
      In today’s America where we see the rule of law unequally applied and often ignored and not applied at all… Perhaps more important than the laws as they are written, is who gets to interpret the law and who gets to rule on the law (prosecutors and judges), not to mention the likely composition of the jury deciding ones fate. In Missouri, you will likely face a very different fate in the city of St. Louis than in small-town rural Missouri. Know your local political and legal environment.
      On this subject, I would like to recommend THE most important book ever written on armed self-defense imho. No offense, but this is levels beyond anything Mas Ayoob, any gun guru, or Tier 1 school instructor has ever written on the subject.
      Violence of Mind by Varg Ferguson (available in paperback on Amazon and in Kindle format).
      If you own and/or carry a gun or any other weapon for self-defense, I guarantee you this will be this best $20 you ever spent (I have no affiliation to the author). This is a ground breaking work on not just the legal aspects of self-defense, but the psychological and practical real world realities of using force.
      If you want to preserve your freedom, your gun rights and save the $25-$50,000+ in legal defense fees for either the criminal or civil fight you will likely face even while within the letter of “the law” – get this book.
      This is a book that no patriot in “today’s” America can afford to be without.

    • spaceman March 6, 2021 at 07:19

      Add NH to that list

  10. Garand69 March 2, 2021 at 12:03

    Hard to disagree at all. The only option would be to starve out DC, but I’m sure the redundancy in underground transportation for the District of Criminals would leave that option pointless as well.
    In order to be effective, we need to be on the same page, sadly everyone’s “Canary in the Mine” is different. The Digital Gulag will pounce very hard on those that have allowed their personal canary to die.

    • Johnny Paratrooper March 2, 2021 at 12:09

      Starving out the leaders in D.C. who take orders from foreign nations, corporations, or LA and NYC is misunderstanding the problem. D.C. controls nothing. They are following the orders orders from their masters. The E.U., AIPAC, and the CCP has more authority in D.C. than any senator or congressmen.

      • NC Scout March 2, 2021 at 12:30

        Johnny just earned his beer. :)

      • Stanwyck March 2, 2021 at 14:03

        This is true but for who holds the power. The E.U. AIPAC, and, China are all under the control of the real power brokers. It’s just that the Illuminists use rings of power in order to shield themselves from exposure as they are the ones who sit at the top and call all the shots. The directions work down their ring and at some point everyone else gets the blame but the real criminals. This is perfect for them as it keeps us all at each others throats and unable to look at them and mount an attack. We kill each other and fight amongst ourselves meanwhile they love it, sit back, and watch how their plan to keep us divided works to perfection as they stay hidden and safe amongst us.
        Now they are transferring our military and economic power over to China because in the final phase they unleash their satanic despotism and they want China’s military and surveillance state to fulfill this need. In an ironic twist they also want to expose the pure stupidity of atheism for all to see in using China in this way. They being Luciferians understand the stupidity of atheists. After they used these people they will get rid of them too.
        As soon as they kill off at least 3/4 of humanity with their vaccines and purges then they will finally reveal the true Doctrine of Lucifer and impose it on any of the minions they decide to keep around. Of course those minions brains will be nano teched by the vaccines hooked up to the internet of things their minds hacked and therefore their connection to God cut off for eternity. They will own you body, mind and soul. With Lucifer for eternity.
        There is a reason for my redundancy. This can be historically checked for accuracy. I’ve provided the talk from Commander Carr who studied this since 1911. We have to stop shooting at all the little targets they set up and cut off the head. We have to start looking at the real culprits, expose them and their plan.

        • spaceman March 6, 2021 at 07:17

          Codex Magica, by the late Jim Marrs explains the foundation of their power/plan quite well, if you can find it. Be warned, after you read it, there is no going back to willful ignorance

  11. Jose March 2, 2021 at 12:47

    They control us through fear. What they fear most is people who are not afraid of them. Sell your self dearly. We are not of this world anyways.

    • Matt Bracken March 2, 2021 at 18:50

      “Come out and fight. It is a good day to die!”
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEMpFsFPhJ8&ab_channel=amelamelamelamel

      • SOG March 2, 2021 at 19:10

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp7cc-goVnA
        one of my all time favorite dialogues, i feel many will turn into modern day josey wales.

      • Jorge Bacharel March 3, 2021 at 14:11

        Hi, there, Matt and all fellow Patriots ’round here.
        If you face the end of times, what shall I say I’m facing myself? I live in Europe, I was born in a European country. I can’t own a damn gun and I’m all by myself: This is, basically, a socialist, EU funded country I live in. I support Freedom as envisaged by the US Constitution, that is, as the US Founding Fathers believed it should be. What shall I do, Matt? What shall I do, brothers and sisters across the pond? You have yourselves to lean on. I have nobody, apart from God and Jesus.

  12. StormN March 2, 2021 at 13:04

    ‘The local gun-collection points might become a sporadic random target, but they will be very well guarded by SWAT counter-snipers etc.’ I’d like to hear/read more on how small units of patriots could deal with this fictional situation. For example, under General Grivas of Cyprus most ambushes lasted 5 or less minutes by as little as a couple of guerrillas.

    • Johnny Paratrooper March 2, 2021 at 13:35

      What he is saying is that you won’t have anything to fight for because you will be treated as a felon anywhere you go. Whether or not you fight back kinetically. They will confiscate your house, freeze your assets, and put a lien on your bank account. You’re license plates will be flagged, no-one will interact with you because that would be a felony, and if you show your face in public you will be flagged by an AI system using face recognition tied into the DHS system(Which has existed since 2006-2007 and been fully operational since at least 2009)

      • Gryphon March 2, 2021 at 20:23

        …” you won’t have anything to fight for because you will be treated as a felon anywhere you go.”
        Um. You’ve got it Backwards. If you are an “Outlaw”, what else is left but to Act like one?
        The occasional “Swat Raid” or “Civil Asset Forfeiture” takes place in the context of only a Tiny Minority in a given AO being Attacked by the Tyrants. For this kind of bureaucratic harassment to have any real Effect, it has to be so Widespread that pretty quickly (IMO) enough of the ‘wrong people’ get Affected. Then it devolves into a ‘numbers game’, i.e. they don’t have enough thugpigs to staff the ‘gun turn-in points’ and also, checkpoints on the Roads to ‘catch’ those whose Driver’s Licenses have been ‘cancelled’.
        And I fully agree with all the postings here that have pointed out the Vulnerability of the “Grid”.

        • Johnny Paratrooper March 2, 2021 at 21:23

          10,000,000 arrests in 2019. FBI stats.
          What’s another 1,000,000? Or 5,000,000?
          Look up the stats from 1997.
          A plan is easier on paper than a battlefield.
          They can, and will, do it if they want to.

          • Gryphon March 3, 2021 at 15:30

            “10,000,000 arrests in 2019”
            That is Not the same as 1,000,000 attempts to Confiscate Guns, where the “loss rate” of thugpigs will be Exponentially Higher.

        • Johnny Paratrooper March 2, 2021 at 21:27

          “I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of Science, whatever the matter may be”
          — William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

          • ChadBIgly March 3, 2021 at 10:53

            Thanks, Private Hudson. Game over man, game over!!

    • DonQPublic April 1, 2021 at 21:40

      From one who lived it:
      “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
      ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
      All it takes is 3% armed with conviction and their bare hands.
      As Gary Ray Hickman famously said “We’ll be shootin what yer shooting in the morning.”
      Many thanks to Sensei Bracken and Sensei NC Scout, among others.

  13. james March 2, 2021 at 13:16

    I always thought what they would do to many is take their children/say the parents unfit ect.
    My guess at that point is folks will trade in their firearms/gold/whatever they are after in the thought they will get their children back,they are probably wrong.
    I see some parents using said firearms to kill those that in any way were part of stealing their children along with their supporters,feel also without children will see this as the evil it is and help said parents any way they could.
    In the end,ugly all around.

  14. enn ess March 2, 2021 at 13:38

    Matt is entirely correct in his assessment. Guns will be turned in because we have allowed gov the ability to intimidate us into the fear pocket of life. We have become so attuned to this reaction it is hard to see any other possibility.
    We allowed this to happen because we have not had the spine for the last 150 years to simply say NO.
    If you don’t say NO, how do you expect anyone else, your friends, neighbors, people you work with, to say NO.
    You and you alone are responsible for everything you do in your life, your safety, happiness, livelihood, shelter, everything you achieve and strive for, all your failures.
    NO – we are not your slaves, your servants, your lackeys, peons or whatever you chose to call us by. WE are free men, with inherent rights endowed by our creator, they do not come from MAN. They are ours by our very humanity. You the gov have been created By US, For US, and have the responsibility to PROTECT those rights. That is their sole primary job and entire reason for their being.
    NO we will not live under your edicts and tyrannical laws and inhumane acts.
    We will not comply, we will not obey. Now kindly go stuff it where the sun don’t shine…..
    When the governed become ungovernable – Let Them Herd Cats…….
    I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them to obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
    Robert A. Heinlen
    Now let’s all start acting like men!

  15. WilliamtheResolute March 2, 2021 at 14:03

    You know the minute you surrender your weapons the genocide will begin. TPTB hate patriots and no longer have to operate within the law, there’s a two tier justice system under this illegitimate Communist occupation and those in power are immune to prosecution. Everything runs on electricity…if you cut someone’s power, water, phone service, etc. they might consider infrastructure fair game…and families. Just thinking out loud.

    • hitman March 2, 2021 at 17:21

      Exactly! If you don’t have electricity and internet anymore, then why would you care if anyone else has it either? Also, what if you and a bunch of friends show up at those collection points and give them all of your ammo first? Do we think that once we give them a few guns, that they won’t come looking for more? And that we won’t be rounded up for the camps when we do show up? When you’re already a wanted Felon, what more do you really have to lose? Is hiding out in the woods for a year or however long really much of a life even if you can do it? Just some questions from a friend.

      • Matt Bracken March 2, 2021 at 18:43

        What I’ve been saying for years now, is, “Everybody gets a vote on everybody else’s power grid.”
        (Rifles vs transformers one zip code over may be…..transformative.)
        I’m not for this, mind you. Not a bit. I agree with Michael Yon: compared to CW2, I’d rather be covered in murder hornets.
        But like M.Y., I feel like the doctor who sees the big lump on your sore neck or armpit.
        Do you want to hear the bitter truth, or just a sweet lie?
        This is getting hard to find. I think I’ll repost the entire thing on AmPart. Anybody else is free to mirror/copy it anywhere, anytime.
        It’s in my “Bracken Collection” in hard copy, get it while you can.
        Dead tree books can’t be auto-deleted by Amazon etc.
        Bracken: When The Music Stops
        https://theprepperjournal.com/2013/09/05/music-stops-americas-cities-may-explode-violence/

        • James March 3, 2021 at 08:49

          A good but depressing re-read.
          As for the Murder Hornets,given they are one of me true phobias(hornets in general),would take the CW2 and all it’s ugliness!

        • Matt March 3, 2021 at 10:41

          Matt Bracken: “It’s in my “Bracken Collection” in hard copy, get it while you can. Dead tree books can’t be auto-deleted by Amazon etc.”
          Mr. Bracken,
          I have all of your books both on the Kindle and in hard copy. Anything that I think will be important gets bought on paper.
          Concerning Amazon deleting stuff from your Kindle, here’s what I do. First, I don’t leave the wireless option turned on all the time. When I buy a book, I turn the wireless on, download the book, and then turn the wireless back off right away. Then, I connect my Kindle to the computer. The Kindle will then show up as a mounted volume on the computer. Open that volume and look for the folder that contains all of the books. Then select all of the books and drag them into a dedicated folder on the computer to back them up.
          While you have the Kindle connected, if you have any PDFs you’d like to have on the Kindle just drop them into the folder on the Kindle where you found the books. Next time you turn on the Kindle you’ll find the PDF(s) in your library.
          Once you’re all done transferring files, just dismount the Kindle in whatever method your operating system uses.
          If Amazon deletes a book that you own, you can just copy the book and it’s associated .sdr file back to the Kindle. It may likely disappear again the next time you sync, but you can always restore it again.
          This might be useful for those books that are only put out in the Kindle format.
          Matt R.

        • Encouraging Angels April 4, 2021 at 16:55

          Matt, thank you for this. (Better late than never)

  16. TLAP March 2, 2021 at 14:51

    So, what can we do about the scenario Bracken just laid out?
    Imho, the first step is this: Become a 2nd amendment sanctuary State and nullify any Federal gun laws in contravention to the 2nd Ammendment or you own State’s laws as Missouri has done with it’s “2nd Amendment Prervation Act.”
    https://themissouritimes.com/missouri-house-passes-second-amendment-preservation-act/
    Copy the bill, visit your State’s lawmakers, start a fundraising and lobbying group and get to work. This was done grass-roots style in Missouri. Start now, because you know the Biden-Harris gun grab is coming…

    • StormN March 2, 2021 at 15:32

      I like that Missouri also adds some ‘teeth’ by punishing even ‘law’ enforcers for more than $50K. Historically, too many state laws have been written and ignored with impunity by TPTB because of the lack of any penalty/punishment. Also, as a country we could start calling ourselves u.I.s.a. : United Independent States of America, now that we’re starting to act like it – instead of USSA: United Socialist States of America, which we have become.

      • StormN March 2, 2021 at 16:50

        The anti-constitutionalists are now finding out that doxing works both ways. With the guerrillas view of attrition, the guerrilla could even visit the collection point unarmed, peacefully spend a couple of minutes taking pictures, collecting info., then leave. Repeat this a few times over a day or more. In conventional war, finding, fixing and finishing are all hard, deadly work. For the ‘urban’ guerrilla at this fictional collection point, the first two have been done for you, peacefully, and finishing means something else entirely. If I was an anti-constitution ‘law’ enforcer at this fictional collection point I could become an exhausted, nervous wreck, thinking about ‘calling in sick’. Heck, this could even turnout to be a peaceful war of attrition. Ah! One can hope . . .

        • NC Scout March 2, 2021 at 17:04

          There’s no such thing as an “anti-constitutionalist”. The “they” you’re referencing refer to you as the same.

        • Steve March 3, 2021 at 09:14

          There is always a very real possibility that you’ll be followed via drone. The eye in the sky will augment their counter-sniper capabilities.

    • NC Scout March 2, 2021 at 15:35

      Nice plan. See how it works out.
      Other plan: they’re gonna do what they’re gonna do.
      Quit kicking the can down the road.

      • Cavguy March 2, 2021 at 15:57

        Agreed!
        What would Henry Bowman do?

        • Matt Bracken March 2, 2021 at 18:26

          Please see my comment to a comment somewhere that starts with:
          “I think that what I wrote, is what Team Tyranny will >>TRY<< to do."

      • Matt Bracken March 2, 2021 at 16:24

        I think that what I wrote is what Team Tyranny will try to do.
        Their intel and psyops pros and social media experts will assure them that it will work.
        That X% of Americans will comply, and the rest can be dealt with by harsher methods.
        The Japanese tried to knock the USA out of the Pacific at Pearl Harbor.
        It did not end well for them in August of 1945.
        In the “digital gulag” gun confiscation scheme, a major weakness will be the collection points.
        According to the plan I outlined, most normie gun owners will be intimidated into going to a certain place at a certain time to turn in their now-outlawed weapons, or face “the digital gulag.”
        But intimidation can work in multiple directions.
        First of all, these collection points will rely on local LE for security. “Night letters” and other forms of clandestine messages will warn these local LEOs that if they take part, in any way, in these gun collection/confiscation plans, then they will be declaring themselves to be traitors, communists, domestic enemies of the constitution, etc. That pension ain’t going to be worth it if you are dead, or your house is burned to the ground.
        And these illegal firearm collection points will, depending on the region, become flash points. There is a reason long range riflery is one of the hottest parts of the shooting community in recent years. If paid hourly govt. employees, (local SWAT, with their .gov issued .308 bolt rifles), want to stand security as “counter-snipers” around these collection points, I think they are going to find out why so many patriots have invested time and money in becoming thousand-yard-plus shooters.
        The entire scheme will probably collapse, or turn into a shooting CW, because nobody will be willing to man these collection points. And ordinary Americans will receive the clandestine jungle-drums message that participating in this collection scheme is collaborating with communist traitors who are destroying the last vestiges of the Constitution.
        As always, I hope that the boys and girls down in the fusion centers are paying attention, and passing information up the line.
        If the Japanese high command had a crystal ball to foresee Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and war crimes trials ending in hangings, maybe they might not have tried Pearl Harbor in the first place. That’s really why I write these things. It’s for the boys and girls down in the fusion centers, and for their bosses.
        But they won’t pay attention, they will probably have to learn the hard way.
        Ask Hideki Tojo what happened after Nanking, Pearl Harbor, and Hiroshima.
        I’ll bet he thought Pearl Harbor was a great plan. Just like Team Tyranny is thinking about the Digital Gulag.
        I hope the boys and girls down in the fusion centers are focused on reality, and not on “trans rights” and other woke cultural Marxist insanity. Tojo had a good plan too. Ask him how it worked out.

        • hitman March 2, 2021 at 17:37

          And as in one of your short stories recently, When a few media personalities and politicians learn the real price of misinformation when they explode in a red mist on live TV. There won’t be much of anyone left to man those collection points with all of the politicians and bureaucrats screaming for 24 hour protection. Even at $10k a day for private security, it’s hard to spend that from a box.

        • Todd Ferguson March 13, 2021 at 18:19

          As more time goes by, I just don’t see how this all gets rectified without wide spread violence and a fracturing of the Republic as we know it. Hubris, malfeasance and utter corruption is prevalent inside the DC (Dirty City) beltway……if ever there was the M.I.C.E. rule personified, it’s right now inside Dirty City…God Bless us All.

        • A.B Prosper May 21, 2021 at 03:26

          Less than two weeks ago a few guys in a room somewhere were able to shut down the entire gas supply to the South East. They only wanted a some bitcoin and worked to avoid doing damage.
          Now imagine what a group of people could do who stop caring and who will pay any price to win, This society is fragile in the extreme and the people who understand that and use that will do a lot maybe more than a bunch of people attacking gun buybacks and collection points.
          A few homeless have already turned Americas major cities into rat infested hell holes L.A being rife with medieval delights like typhus..
          Now imagine cities with no infrastructure for power (all destroyed) water (same) or communication.
          Germs and famine will kill so many more than bullets. Its indiscriminate , its evil but if it comes to losing, Team Evil will do it and I suspect Team Decent will need to know how too.

      • Cavguy March 2, 2021 at 17:09

        They, those who want to do this, have names and address, and they have to sleep sometime.
        What would Henry Bowman do?

        • NC Scout March 2, 2021 at 17:12

          Yup.

  17. Cavguy March 2, 2021 at 15:55

    I have been saying the same exact thing for years now.

  18. RDG March 2, 2021 at 16:00

    NYTimes article today setting the stage for the beginning of the left’s dehumanization, a requirement for gulags to work. Watch for more stories reflecting the idea that humanity is not special and certainly not in God’s image. Matt is so correct as to their plan. Those that don’t comply with the digital gulag will go to a real one along with their family where they have been already deemed not human in public opinion. Very dark territory we are headed into. If they can train people to turn you in for not wearing a mask, they can easily train them to the idea that a gun owner is a much more dangerous threat. The commies have all the tools in place now. Where can I get off this mess?

    • Matt Bracken March 2, 2021 at 18:23

      “If they can train people to turn you in for not wearing a mask, they can easily train them to the idea that a gun owner is a much more dangerous threat.”
      Classic Pavlovian conditioning. Totally effective. Brainwashing works.

      • SOG March 2, 2021 at 18:58

        I read all of the books in less than a week. the scariest part is the similarities to current events, the absolute worst and telling part is on more than one occasion you said “i dont need to write a fourth book,we are living in it”
        election fraud
        armed coup and occupation in WH and DC
        criminal swamp creatures never going to prison
        i guess life is more fkd than even an author can imagine!

        • Matt Bracken March 2, 2021 at 19:30

          My six books are something like a million and a half words. That’s a lot of reading. Thanks.

      • Donk August 3, 2021 at 01:56

        Well it works behind the black mirror. When faced with flesh and blood reality, not so much.

  19. Just pondering March 2, 2021 at 16:21

    How long will those pushing for confiscation be happy to find no food on the grocery shelves when the interstates become impassable?

    • hitman March 2, 2021 at 17:23

      And Texas just showed us that it takes less than a week for that to happen.

    • Johnny Paratrooper March 2, 2021 at 17:24

      That sounds too much like work.
      Plus the delivery guys are good people. I enjoy the company of truck drivers. They are really well read and great conversationalists. They have also traveled all over the country. Great intel.
      You should actually cut the power and force the government to rethink the riots and lack of sales taxes.
      They’ll act tough on TV for a week or two(Not that anyone is watching). They can’t stop a thing.
      Everyone who went to Iraq or Afghanistan knows the Hollywood omniscient hero BS is a farce.
      Even the cops know that nothing can stop criminals.
      Where there is a will, there is a way.

      • NC Scout March 2, 2021 at 17:35

        There’s this thing called SWEAT-MC.
        If the reactionists understood it, what a threat we’d be.

        • Johnny Paratrooper March 2, 2021 at 18:58

          I had to look that one up cause it’s been almost 12 years.
          SWEAT-MC=Sewer, Water, Electric, and Telecommunications-Medical Security.
          You only need to cut 2 before the whole thing is almost hopelessly broken.
          You can’t just plug the system back in like a bad light switch, breaker, or a bad light blue.

          • NC Scout March 2, 2021 at 19:00

            There ya go. That’s why you’re here brother.

          • Matt Bracken March 2, 2021 at 19:32

            “SWEAT-MC=Sewer, Water, Electric, and Telecommunications-Medical Security.
            You only need to cut 2 before the whole thing is almost hopelessly broken.”
            I just learned something new from you both. Thanks mucho.
            I’d have used that if I’d known it when I wrote “When the Music Stops” or “Alas, Brave New Babylon.”

          • Patriotman March 2, 2021 at 19:41

            Sounds like a new story is needed then, brother :)

          • NC Scout March 2, 2021 at 19:42

            To be more specific:
            Sewer
            Water
            Electricity
            Access (to the aforementioned)
            Transportation
            Medical Care
            Communications
            Each are interdependent on the stability of a populace. Target one to destabilize, and satisfy them all to gain control.

      • Erik Weisz June 17, 2021 at 21:02

        Hey man, I’m a truck driver myself and I agree whole-heartedly. We are some of the last rugged individualists remaining. The overwhelming majority of us are like-minded well-armed right-wing patriots in above-average shape with lots of time to become ever more informed and do a lot of thinking. We are also EVERYWHERE in 49 states constantly, regardless of any state’s politics. We are the literal lifeblood of this nation, we are invisible and we are angry and we are . . . waiting.
        No one will take anything from us, while we have the power to take everything from everyone at any time.
        Food for thought.

  20. Bozo March 2, 2021 at 16:32

    Stupid article…just more fear mongering…and coming from our own side. I guess one has to do what one has to do to get clicks…go figure. Pathetic really…

    • NC Scout March 2, 2021 at 16:40

      And the peanut gallery speaks!

      • Bozo March 2, 2021 at 17:36

        Lame response…you gotta have more than that.
        There is always two sides to an argument, maybe even three if you consider it. Consequences to the actions mentioned have not been mentioned or even entertained…why not? I have read many articles which prey on a one sided discussion and most of them fall flat. I happen to like this author and am a little surprised by his lack of depth in broaching the subject.
        At what point do you say F*ck it and go after the tyrants? I think many are very close to that point.
        The idiots are in charge and they are living up to their idiotic expectations…that isn’t saying much.

        • NC Scout March 2, 2021 at 18:58

          Oh I got plenty more than that, mr. Agent man.
          Plenty more.
          Now you’re burned. Go earn that GS paycheck elsewhere.

        • Matt Bracken March 2, 2021 at 19:27

          Try again harder with a more plausible screen name next time, moron.
          Something like “Patrick Henry” or “Henry Bowman 2.” (Google them.)
          You deserve to lose your weekly .gov pay for such a lame attempt. Big fail.
          Now, get back to the .gov DC kitchen serving undercooked chicken for the NG.

          • NC Scout March 2, 2021 at 19:40

            It’s your tax dollars at work.
            They think they’re clever, underestimating just how much is gained through an IP address.

          • Mark. March 2, 2021 at 22:48

            Mr. Bracken, I respectfully disagree with your chastisement of the gov. employee for his choice of screen name. Can there be a more fitting name than Bozo for any government employee?

          • Bozo March 7, 2021 at 09:38

            Food for thought…Just because someone posts a comment which doesn’t satiate the palate of those consuming the bits and pieces, doesn’t make the comments “brackish. The comments are meant to cut out the fat and expose those who are used to being spoon fed a one-course meal with a spoonful of vinegar to keep the propaganda from going down.
            Learn to eat well and digestion becomes easier on the body whole.

        • StormN March 3, 2021 at 09:35

          Bozo, I read your posts more than once. While I think you’re a little harsh I believe your posts are worth reflecting on. I have no reason to believe that you are a government troll. That you are being smeared as one sadly proves your point. If the pro-constitutional movement collapses it’ll be without the government spending a penny or any other resources; it’ll rapidly collapse under the weight of its arrogance, growing paranoia, prejudice and ignorance.

          • NC Scout March 3, 2021 at 09:40

            Do you have access to the backend of this site? (No, you don’t).
            Commenting on things you know nothing about seems to become the standard with you.
            Don’t worry, I’ll help you.

          • spaceman March 5, 2021 at 19:08

            Yeah, those are some of the reasons democracy’s fail. More likely to be patriots this time, they b way outnumbered and surrounded. And for some reason, they can’t stop goodguys like scout and matt and all those other hard patriots(fieldcraft, bear, kag etc.) from spreading their freedom skills

    • Matt Bracken March 2, 2021 at 18:19

      So says the brave keyboard kommando named, by himself, about himself, “BOZO.”

      • Allowmetointroducemyself March 2, 2021 at 18:43

        This exact, if not worse, thing will indeed happen asap. I say best not to have any like minded hard hearted friends. Just be ready when it’s go time. Which will exactly happen, if not worse, asap.

      • Rabbi Will McCubbins March 2, 2021 at 21:55

        I cant stand the pseudo names.

      • Bozo March 7, 2021 at 12:26

        Call me what you want. You, of all people know the amount of disinformation going on at every level, at any given point, in any day, from multiple directions…all meant to dissuade, deny and defend the propaganda machine being used against those who are spoon fed. No one uses critical thought to question the validity of information, the source or the agenda behind it.
        By broadcasting the oppositions message to our own base seems counter intuitive and defeatist. Informing your readers and presenting counter points is more productive, rather than to present a one sided approach with no qualitative analysis of the repercussions of said actions.

    • Ray March 2, 2021 at 20:11

      Your name fits your comment.

  21. Dana Henry March 2, 2021 at 17:36

    Bracken’s advice has been so on target that I am being proactive and following it.
    I’ve listed my place for sale and moving to a total Red area. I’m dumping my guns via FFL’s to break the data chain (my idea) and replacing them with p/p purchases which is legal where I’m going.
    Paratrooper’s comments are also on target and I’d like to add TPTB will use Civil Forfeiture Laws to strip Patriots of their Real asessts. I’ve commented on this forum how I have seen those laws abused for decades. Get the hell out of Blue states and their Red Flag Laws.
    Talk and hope ain’t a plan. Be proactive before it’s too late.
    My dad, who made most of the major Pacific amphibous landings in WWII, said “don’t just stand there do something; indecision can get you killed”.
    I have follwed his advice all my life and made it this far.
    A side note. I told one buddy my plan and it turns out there are four other families following the same advice. We’re all heading to the same area.

    • Matt Bracken March 2, 2021 at 19:24

      Thanks. Every family that waited too long in 1930s Germany, 1990s Yugoslavia, 2020 Hong Kong etc. regretted it.

      • Dana Henry March 7, 2021 at 15:53

        I rely on the Brain Trust here. I don’t have the group expertise. My input is as a career sailor boat/ship handler. As some of you know I served mil, spy & research, ships.
        This thread paints a farily hopeless future.
        While reading Bracken’s books I thought using a missle to take out a single target was quite literally “overkill” and way too expensive. I thought it was just good writing and imagination.
        It’s been done for years? Well, that sucks.
        I’ve been thinking about the posts. Given the enemy has, at least for the forseable future, all the tools and the might of the military and intelligence at their disposal; I don’t see how anything beyond indivduals working on their own, or in small cells, performing what would be considered crimes of opportunity would have the chance of getting anything off the ground. They’d be hard to predict or prevent .
        I spent a lifetime working, transiting globally alone. It’s a natural way for me to think.
        There are guys in my group I respect. They’re like you all. They’re professional and former SFs. There is no talk of options of any kind.
        So that makes me wonder. I hear people say we have to do thus and so. When?
        This is a rehtorical question don’t answer.
        After PR and DC become a state? Immigrants number in the hundreds of thousands? Weapons and our brain trust have been disappeared? The electoral system has been trashed? When/where is the line in the sand?
        I learned on a site I posted on not to say anything that could be construed as conspiracy. If another person agrees with your positon on a topic that could be interpreted as actionable that could qualify you for a visit and shut down the site.
        One more question for the Brain Trust here. We use Proton. I admit to things there I’d never to here or on the phone etc. Is that another sense of false security?
        A parting thought. Unless elements of the Left turn on their own, returning to anything we consider normal is a lost cause.
        This has been a good thread learned a lot.

    • Cavguy March 3, 2021 at 08:56

      Hey Dana, Idaho sure is pretty this time of year. I made the move three years ago now. Left siblings, (the lost and the left), and what true friends there were way back east. Sun is just coming up and i have a beautiful view out my window, and its a warm 19 degrees. Good luck with your move.

      • Dana Henry March 3, 2021 at 10:16

        Thanks, CAVGUY. I really appreciate words of encourgment. It’s a big step.
        I currently live in a solid Red region. Our sheriffs support the Constitution. All my neighbors are also former LE/Mil. But Washington is undeniably a Blue state. I live close to the Candian border. Lots of warning signs.
        It’s not an easy decision to make. I thought this was my last move. I’m dug in. I have a big house. I planted an orchard and an Apiary. I’m alone and hardest of all, I got old.
        I’m closely tied to a veterans volunteer group. I trust the buddys enough that if something happens to me they know where all the goodies are buried. They have keys where they’re needed. I hated to leave them behind but when I told our regional leader my plans he said he and his wife are also moving. He told me that three other familys are also going in the same general vicinity. So, it looks like we got us a convoy and seeds of group continuity.
        I was my mom’s caregiver for the past ten and half years. (hard talking in the past tense) She was sharp and up to speed on current events. We’d have morning coffee in the livingroom and talk before starting the day. I’d often bring up what I read here. She was as familar with names like Bracken and NCScout as you and I. She knew I wanted to follow the advice here and take classes but was unable to get away. We talked about moving but it’s pretty hard with a 90+ year old.
        Well, I lost her a couple weeks before Rush. She didn’t have to go. Maybe she was setting me free. I don’t know. She was bright, articulate and also an amateur ham radio operator. She was full of opinions. She was an American Patriot. She just gave up. I told her if she left me and I go off reservation it’d be her fault.
        There’s nothing holding me anymore so I’ll use what time and resources I have left for the cause; and all my buddys will need is a new map, and set of keys.

        • Cavguy March 3, 2021 at 10:35

          Hey, NC would you please give my email address to Dana Henry? Then Dana and I can continue our dialogue elsewhere if he wishes. (Man sure do miss your forum).
          Dana, lost my mom in 19, she was 93. Hey man are you a Ham? I am on the air each morning at 0700 on the 12th region traffic net.
          Cavguy

          • NC Scout March 3, 2021 at 10:48

            Send me an email, I’ll make the linkup.
            Forum will be back late this month when my training schedule calms down a bit.

          • Dana Henry March 3, 2021 at 11:03

            Roger that, CAVGUY

          • Dana Henry March 3, 2021 at 11:08

            Ham, yes. Extra. Mom was General.
            Emergency relay station. Work with Sheriff’s Dept local and SATERN National/International and Maritime Nets.

  22. Anonymous March 2, 2021 at 17:52

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  23. […] The Digital Gulag: Why Team Tyranny Won’t Need Door-Kickers to Enforce the Coming Gun Bans | Ameri… […]

  24. Henry March 2, 2021 at 19:28

    Wow, whoever could have predicted there was a downside to publishing all the details of your life on social media for anybody in the world to read.
    https://youtu.be/oZfQymnABxQ?t=35

    • Patriotman March 2, 2021 at 19:42

      This show was one of my favorites and it was so ahead of its time!

  25. SheepDog March 2, 2021 at 19:54

    When they show up at your door, say nothing at all and close the door in their face. I will repeat myself…say nothing, NOTHING. If they have a warrant, or other ‘legal’ authority, still say nothing at all. NOTHING.
    Why do you ask for an email address to post here? It is easily traced back to the individual and you know ‘they’ are monitoring this site.

    • Patriotman March 2, 2021 at 20:08

      It is WordPress asking, not us. Put whatever you want there. We don’t care.
      At least you are using a VPN, which helps.

      • StormN March 2, 2021 at 22:30

        Good to know! Thanks.

        • Patriotman March 3, 2021 at 23:13

          No problemo. Wish it was not that way :/

    • StormN March 2, 2021 at 22:23

      Good advice, SheepDog. Good advice. Harder than it looks to follow. Bears repeating: ‘zip the lip’. ‘Loose Lips Sink Ships’ doesn’t just apply to uninvited visitors. It should be at the top of any counter-intel list. It should be practiced daily as a matter of habit.

  26. Ray March 2, 2021 at 20:35

    I think their plan to disarm us will work out perfectly for a moment. But in their arrogance there is always something forgotten. Then its going to break lose. All that need happen and this was in one of Matt’s books is for the EBT payment system to go down in any bid city. Living in MT i can tell you they will have their work cut out for them. As someone said. When people lose everything and have nothing left to lose. They lose it. When you marginalize the tens of millions of people who produce the goods which sustain their false reality, when you remove their ability to speak their mind and make their voices heard, when you insult them, berate them, hector them and beat them and then disarm them then you will bear the consequences

    • John in Indy March 4, 2021 at 18:02

      The EBT shutdown has already been tested, in Birmingham 7 or 8 years ago. First of the month the EBT computers shut down. By the fourth of the month riots had stripped the grocery and other stores in the downtown / poor areas.
      Next day, all better. Test over.
      Modern cities are highly dependent on an uninterrupted supply chain, and on popular faith that such supply chain will remain uninterrupted.
      Tonight Show, Johnny Carson, created a national shortage of toilet paper in the early 70s by making a joke that this would be the next shortage, gasoline then being in short supply.
      The over-usual demand stripped the supply chain, causing the shortage.
      If even a belief that supply interruptions to cities are possible becomes common, the late coming shoppers will crash the system entitrly by accident.
      Consider what deliberate action might accomplish, and prepare accordinhly to survive suvh disruption
      John in Indy

    • spaceman March 5, 2021 at 06:01

      Hi Ray, Those words spoken by Trend Forecast’s Gerald Celente

  27. Checkers March 2, 2021 at 20:47

    The IRS is now somewhat in control of your health care. You all certainly notice how you have to prove you have health insurance or not on your taxes. Similar thing with guns. It is going to be easy to find out how many guns you have, send you a letter to turn them in, and start garnishing your wages weekly for “fines” for non compliance. Likely at 100% of your wages. What are you going to do? Argue with the IRS? Complain to your congress critter? Write a strongly worded letter? Even the most extreme response just gets you killed, likely quickly. I see no good way out here. I guess I will just have to “vote harder” next time ! Or maybe send more of my money to the NRA. ha ha ha.
    Seriously, this is how they are going to do it. I see no working response. Claiming you sold them all will just get a “prove it’ letter and ongoing wage garnishment. What is the response? I am open to suggestions.

    • Luke March 2, 2021 at 22:02

      “Funny thing happened to me I was on my way to the range. I had my gun (rifle) tucked away nicely in its case. As I moved closer to the range there was a bristling sound from inside the tree line. At my surprise an angry bear came out and roared. Me being the pussy I am (which is why I needed a gun) freaked out. I screamed and dropped my gun while I ran for cover. I think that bear was trying to teach me a lesson about carrying guns in the place.”
      “If you don’t believe me then may I suggest getting a warrant and coming to my house? So let me know when you would like to swing by. But you will need a warrant. And I know the local cops and they won’t come in here unless I invite them. They are not invited this time Fed. So bring your BLM protecting, pink pussy hat wearing asses over.”
      “Molon Labe Motherfucker”

    • Cavguy March 3, 2021 at 08:39

      Hey Checkers, what would Henry Bowman do?

      • TVR March 3, 2021 at 09:38

        he would feed the pigs

        • Cavguy March 3, 2021 at 10:23

          Hey TVR, you know, I think every region has its own preferred method of disposal. I saw how the Serbs did it in BiH. Well not the actual act but the results, too many lose ends that way. We were tasked with IDing the locations for exhumation of evidence. Best part of how Henry Bowman did it is the pig roast down the road sometime.
          (Mr. fbi, cia, dhs, and fusion center hero these comments are for entertainment only and do not reflect any reality.)
          Cavguy

    • Gryphon March 3, 2021 at 15:45

      Checkers – “I see no working response”. Of course you don’t; You can grovel before your ‘masters’ if you want, but it is Clear that You do not value anything resembling Freedom, and don’t deserve it. There are So Many Ways to counter this kind of bureaucratic harassment that I could Write for Days. The first, and very simple thing, is to Withdraw Consent and Participation in their ‘beast system’ so as to reduce the avenues of attack for the Enemy.
      I last had a “Payroll Job” with Taxes ‘withheld’, maybe 35 Years ago, and thus have had very minimal “Tax Obligations”. It is very easy to do, as long as you are not Lazy. Having ANY sort of ‘bank account’ also makes you an Easy Target.
      What you are Missing, IMO, is that at Some Point, the depredations of this fake, communist ‘government’ become Intolerable, and then going out and Killing Communists becomes a Moral Imperative for Men who would be Free. Obviously, You are not one of Us.

  28. boss21 March 2, 2021 at 22:01

    In 2013 there was widespread Panic when Kuomo ‘passed’ the ‘SAFE ACT’ in NY after Sandy Hoax.
    No FTF sales – unenforceable.
    No internet sales of ammo – didn’t get by ICC ( though most vendors make you fill out form that NY gets but doesn’t need to see what you bought anyway.)
    Background check for ammo sales – State Police wouldn’t have anything to do with it.
    Guns banned by brand name – lawyers shit-canned that in less than a week.
    Register all ‘assault’ rifles – 28,000 in a state of 19 million.
    Stripped lowers and complete rifles with funky stocks and/or ‘pinned’ mags are flying off the shelves ever since.
    No hi-cap mags – this is in effect but no arrests to speak of.
    52 Sherriffs out of 62 said they would not enforce it. SP will presumably (again no arrests to speak of) but their footprint is dwarfed by an NYPD alienated by the left and the myraid local departments.
    The upshot was the FUDDs were elbowed aside and the interest in all things gun and constitution skyrocketed even on LI which went for Trump despite all the vote fraud.
    Trying this on the whole country will be a lightning bolt to the balls of even the dumbest FUDDs.

  29. […] Matt Bracken. […]

  30. Chad C. Mulligan March 3, 2021 at 06:31

    John Brunner: novel = “The Shockwave Rider” circa 1973 predicted all this. He even coined the term “deevee’d” for it. Unfortunately the heroics of his protagonist would not be possible today.

  31. Ranger Up March 3, 2021 at 07:11

    “The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of ‘Men who wanted to be left Alone’.
    They try, so very hard to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love.
    They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it.
    They know the moment they fight back, the lives as they have lived them, are over.
    The moment the ‘Men who wanted to be left Alone’ are forced to fight back, it is a small form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be.
    Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these ‘Men who wanted to be left Alone’, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives.
    They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror.
    TRUE TERROR will arrive at the Left’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy, but it will fall upon deaf ears.”

    • Cavguy March 3, 2021 at 08:34

      Hey Ranger Up, is this yours? Did you pen that piece? Sure sums up how many feel, and I pray that is is not a view into our future. Thanks,
      Cavguy

    • Bongo March 4, 2021 at 05:21

      Brother – that is the most succinct ‘shot’ I’ve ever read — I have felt that way since I was a kid and I know now that will be my life before too long

  32. Pete March 3, 2021 at 07:45

    Being a law abiding type who wants no trouble, I will gladly turn my firearms and ammo in. Unfortunately I lost it all in a boating accident two days after the gun grabbing legislation is passed.

  33. Anonymous March 3, 2021 at 10:30

    4

  34. LawrenceOfAL March 3, 2021 at 12:28

    Matt, an infuriating scenario for sure. As you’ve mentioned before, the agents who are tasked with going around doing “Roger Stone” raids for the cameras might be thinking they are just going to do their 9-5 jobs of door kicking, then go to the store for a six pack on the way home. Sadly for them, perhaps they haven’t thought things through… How many guys are gonna just shake their heads and shrug their shoulders after their cousin, brother, dad, friend gets hauled to the fusion center before Mr. Agent is looking for another line of work? Same for the TV crews?

    • Matt Bracken March 3, 2021 at 17:20

      As CW2 gets hotter, Team Tyranny is going to quit doing door-to-door raids. Too risky. Ground ambushes are bad for morale.
      Instead, they’ll begin to use precision stand-off weapons. I just posted this:
      2.75″ PRECISION LASER GUIDED ROCKETS
      https://www.americanpartisan.org/2021/03/2-75-precision-laser-guided-rockets/
      “Instead of blowing up buildings or convoys, Bronco crews were killing ISIS fighters standing in dark windows, or in a single truck surrounded by others. As far as just how precise the OV-10 crews could be with their laser-guided rockets and high-end targeting sensors, the Bronco’s prowess in this department was almost freakish. It wasn’t just taking out bad guys in windows—they were doing the same with fighters hiding under eaves, overhangs, dense cover and in doorways. Essentially, the Broncos were flying snipers for special operations forces hunting ISIS in Iraq. They could observe with great clarity from on high, collect intelligence and stalk the enemy. They could also kill that enemy with incredible accuracy. Instead of using a sniper’s bullet, the Broncos used the Pentagon’s guided munition equivalent, laser-guided rockets.”
      We will need to up our game to stay ahead of the power curve.

      • jackalope March 3, 2021 at 22:54

        If the aircraft never leaves the ground…

      • Gryphon March 4, 2021 at 14:47

        After the Waco Massacre, the ATF obtained some OV-10’s from the DRMO (surplus Agency) They were repainted in plain dark blue, but retained the Guns, Sensors and Rocket Pods. After about a Year, the private company that rented them Hangar Space at a small Airport had an Employee “Rat Out” the planes to Senator Grassley, who threatened to make it ‘public’ that ‘law enforcement’ had Attack Aircraft. The DRMO ‘rescinded’ the transfer, and the Aircraft were flown to the Boneyard and Cut Up for Scrap.
        From a practical standpoint, Even If Attack Aircraft are kept on Military Bases, the numbers of ways to Interdict them, as well as make Life on that Base ‘unpleasant’ are too numerous to List, but a few of them are:
        Planes can’t Fly without Fuel
        Planes can’t Fly without Pilots
        The Very-High-Power Laser ‘Pointers’ that are available can Permanently Blind Pilots
        Blind Pilots can’t Land Planes very well
        And as far as I’m concerned, the Very First Incident of Military Heavy Weapons being used against the Citizens turns Each and Every ‘government’ Employee or Facility into a Target in a Free-Fire Zone.

        • Matt Bracken March 4, 2021 at 17:06

          “And as far as I’m concerned, the Very First Incident of Military Heavy Weapons being used against the Citizens turns Each and Every ‘government’ Employee or Facility into a Target in a Free-Fire Zone.”
          Amen. And local LE especially needs to understand these CW ROE going in, as far as supporting FLE ops.

          • NC Scout March 4, 2021 at 17:10

            This is why the big goal is exploitation. Che Guevara had an interesting (and correct) take on it.

        • Johnny Paratrooper March 4, 2021 at 17:35

          Lazing an aircraft deploys their flares. Which they only have so many of. Once they hit 75-50% flares, they have to RTB.

          • Matt March 4, 2021 at 20:20

            Johnny Paratrooper: “Lazing an aircraft deploys their flares. Which they only have so many of. Once they hit 75-50% flares, they have to RTB.”
            That’s a new one on me, and a pretty bonehead way to configure a system. That essentially gives the enemy a way to ID you by setting off your flares.
            I’m a bit out of date, but none of the fighters I flew had anything like that. If it did, that’d be one of the first things I’d override when I got into the cockpit. Additionally, there’s no way I would turn back on a mission because of flare count. Fighters don’t display that information anyway. You know you’re out when you punch the button and nothing happens.
            Trying to LASE a fighter, unless it’s an infrared LASER, is likely to do nothing more than get a bomb dropped in your lap.
            Matt R.

          • Dave March 4, 2021 at 20:45

            Thats not a true statement. It might ping as a threat, but deployment of chaff and flare are pilot controlled counter measures

  35. Anonymous March 3, 2021 at 20:09

    4.5

  36. Joe R. March 4, 2021 at 10:54

    They are all mortal, and they all sleep somewhere (TAAMATASS).
    Further, they are all your idiot ay-whole neighbors who needed a job (your “gov’t”), therefore, per the 2nd Para. of the Declaration of independence, you don’t have to wait for them to make the first move. It’s your “duty” to tell them to get F d “whenever” you deem necessary, and it’s ok to hunt them if they don’t leave peaceably, quietly, and of their own volition, and then you can go after their families, friends, pets, livestock, homes, property, dry goods, paper, chattel, and those lassaiz-faire idiots sitting on the fence in the vicinity.

    • Dave March 4, 2021 at 20:39

      Pretty much what I was going to say. Don’t wait for the other stages, and don’t worry about the labels the apply to you. They are already calling us terrorists, just for having conservative thoughts and believing in America.

  37. […] The Digital Gulag: Why Team Tyranny Won’t Need Door-Kickers to Enforce the Coming Gun Bans […]

  38. Hillbilly March 5, 2021 at 10:09

    Matt your right about the way they will coercive you into turning in our arms but there’s enough of us to harm them without ever firing a shot. We have to get organized with the truckers, oilfield and other essential services for their cities and just shut them down. About three days it will start to get bad and 8 weeks they will have imploded oh themselves. Don’t ever count out a patriots desire to return the favor.

    • LetsPlay April 16, 2021 at 10:03

      You have it right, Hillbilly. The tyrants like the word “collective”, well collective action is ours also. Acting alone, we are easy pickings, but organized, they can be hurt en mass as you mention. I like the example of the movie with the Wolverines, we take what they have and use it against them. Remember, they might have presumed power, but they are just idiots who make big mistakes all the time. They make false assumptions, the bet big on the wrong things, are wasteful because nothing they do costs them anything, and when things start going south, they will turn on each other in a big way.

    • Quartermaster April 21, 2021 at 13:33

      A rifle chambered in .22 WMR can destroy and electrical substation. Simply drain the oil from the transformers and the transformer self destructs. 5 people can shut DC down within and hour. The power company needs a lead time of over a year to get a new transformer. Both drinking water and wastewater processing require electricity. There aren’t enough generators to supply DC, NYC, Boston, LA, Detroit, Sand Diego to make a difference in the loss.

  39. Tacitus March 8, 2021 at 15:03

    All I have to say is, amen… I’ve been trying to explain this to whoever would listen for the last couple of years. Unless you bought everything with cash for the last 30 years, and only bought your guns from private individuals, they are going to check every credit card purchase, every bank account record and every amazon/internet order, every ATM card purchase, and every social media post you ever made. And yes, before they send the SWAT team to your house to kill you, you will suffer being “pecked to death by ducks”… mounting fines, frozen bank accounts, garnished wages, blocked internet, cancelled driver’s licenses, notices to show up at courthouse hearings, being labeled as a “neo-nazi white supremacist terrorist” in the media, scaring your employer into firing you, etc. Unfortunately the banks will be more than willing to co-operate with the feds. Not only are they run by NYC liberals at the top, but the news media would certainly punish any banking company accused of protecting a “right wing terrorist.”
    The idea is to ruin you financially without a shot being fired. You will be destroyed by metrosexual lawyers and bureaucrats in air conditioned government office buildings, sitting in front of computers, sipping lattes while they listen to NPR. If you are married and/or have kids, they’re going to use that vulnerability against you. (recall that if they were willing to shoot Randy Weaver’s son and wife, putting your family in the poor house is going to be a picnic.) If you lose your job, you’re bankrupted and cant pay your rent or mortgage, how long are you going to make your family suffer? Are you going to put your wife in the position of being threatened in an FBI interview into disclosing where you buried your cache, or else? Are you going to risk having your kids taken because you are classified as an “abuser” for exposing them to “unlawful firearms” and “harmful racist and anti-government conspiracies?”
    This isn’t a perfect solution, but one thing you might consider is putting the title of your house entirely in your wife’s name, including the car title. She should have a separate bank account, separate credit cards. You should have her file her taxes separately. Maybe even need to divorce her. You need to allow her to legally-financially function even if the DeepState-ATF-FBI complex goes after you. For you guys who aren’t married, consider your mom, or a brother or sister, or even a trusted friend.

    • LetsPlay April 16, 2021 at 09:57

      Shirley you are joking?? You think the Feds would stop simply because you took those “preventive” measures? They have no morals and will stop at nothing to destroy those who oppose them. Look at what they did to Donald J. Trump, and he was President! The only thing they respect is being in the Club and we ain’t in the club.

  40. […] THE DIGITAL GULAG: WHY TEAM TYRANNY WON’T NEED DOOR-KICKERS TO ENFORCE THE COMING GUN BANS […]

  41. Winston Smith March 12, 2021 at 17:20

    I read a book recently about how to deal with this. Next Civil War on Amazon. He says a small number of people can shut down utilities and roads.

  42. […] — Matt Bracken in The Digital Gulag: Why Team Tyranny Won’t Need Door-Kickers to Enforce the Coming Gun Bans […]

  43. […] — Matt Bracken in The Digital Gulag: Why Group Tyranny Won’t Need Door-Kickers to Implement the Coming Gun Bans […]

  44. […] — Matt Bracken in The Digital Gulag: Why Team Tyranny Won’t Need Door-Kickers to Enforce the Coming Gun Bans […]

  45. […] • Confiscations begin. If you’d like to know how that will happen, I refer you to Matt Bracken, author of the Enemies Foreign and Domestic trilogy, which is pretty much shaping up to be future history: “Team Tyranny won’t need to conduct many door-to-door gun raids. They’ll just lock you inside a d…” […]

  46. […] You still won’t comply? You’re doxed at work. Your company “can’t take the risk” of employing you after they get secret back-channel warnings from the DHS. You and your wife the school teacher or nurse will be unemployed. How are you going to pay your mortgage? Your kids’ tuition bill? Your car payment? Again, as a DHS-suspected “domestic terror threat” you can’t get the local news to touch the story. Next step: your ATM card is frozen. Then your credit cards. Then your bank drops you. Still a hard case? Your electricity arrives intermittently. Then it stops altogether. Then your water is cut off. The local news will still not touch your story, since they have been warned about the dangerous domestic terror threat from people like you. […]

  47. Mark Webb May 8, 2021 at 16:21

    If it’s war they want, then it’s war they get…..

  48. James Carpenter aka "Felix" May 9, 2021 at 18:47

    SWEAT-MC
    These are the ultimate (and assured) weapon’s target of quickest, most emphatic result. MB’s (bad social scoring) scenario depends on relative stability of society in general. A platform to support organized, systematic coercion.
    Me? I live “behind enemy lines”. The relative costs of relocating to a “friendly area” does not compute as cost effective, given worst case scenario (we all die someday).
    But if MB is correct in his assessment/predictions. whether you currently live red or blue, it scarcely matters. And “Dump Social Media” is weak tea when considering our comprehensive personal exposure/vulnerability in today’s digital age- the “SWEAT-MC” concept absolutely spotlights a two-way street.
    Self-sufficiency in as many categories as possible is paramount. Those of us who might be too old to be highly mobile “trigger-pullers” are tasked with providing logistics and reserve firepower, the backstop and depth of a sea the active “guerillas” must swim in to sustain an insurgency and against tyranny.
    You know who you are (or should be actively working to get it figured out)
    There will be a place for everyone who wants to contribute.
    Your lives, your fortunes, and your sacred honor.
    Get better acquainted with the vulnerabilities of infrastructure in your AO. Gather what you can to impact as many of those points as you can. History is replete with records of even just _one_ man altering the course of history. (or at least making a big difference in their neck of the woods).
    The more, the merrier. Just remember, an insurgent’s secrets are best kept between two if one is dead. Sinking ships, loosed lips, comprehensive monitoring of all electronica by the tyrants, etc. You ARE a person of interest.

  49. Anonymous August 11, 2021 at 07:19

    3.5

  50. WhtHrs55tn September 28, 2021 at 21:03

    Yes, 4 am news shows will be all that’s necessary. To start the fireworks.

  51. Rick September 28, 2021 at 21:06

    If it happens it won’t last long

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