As someone who became a gun owner after the OIC and has never experienced not living in fear of what the government will do next, I find this post extremely disheartening. If a significant amount of gun owners give up and turn their banned guns into the government, they will declare victory against us and continue to ban and confiscate until we have nothing left. If we collectively give the government the middle finger and hold onto our guns, it will become impossible for the government to enforce their ridiculous bans. If the compliance rate for a buyback is close to zero, they will have no choice but to continually extend the amnesty period, just like the long gun registry. Giving up allows them to declare victory, we can't allow that.