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> >I'm as attached to my guns as anyone but I don't see the population
> holding off the military with shotguns and rifles.

The modern military is overly techno-crap dependent.  There is no place in 
the world where the entire crushing weight of our military has succeeded in 
uprooting an armed populace, and that in countries where a rife and 200 
rounds 
costs a fortune of a lifetime, like buying a house here or more.

In this country the populace, overall, is far, far better armed than the 
Pakistanis, Iraqis, or Afghanastanis.  And yet our military has been only 
marginally successful against them.

If the armed American populace turned its sights on the military, it would be 
no contest in a very great hurry.

Additionally, you would have very few in the military who would turn their 
guns on their own people.  There is a very revered former state policeman in 
Wise Co. Va who during one of the coal strikes was ordered, along with the 
rest 
of the state police assigned to the task, to hold a bridge against the 
strikers 
and if they attempted to cross, he was to use deadly force.   He laid down 
his gun and said he would in no way point a gun at his own people.  The state 
police reassigned troopers putting men from east Virginia on the lines.  
Signs 
went up at every convenience store and restaurant, "State Troopers Unwelcome 
Here" "We Refuse to Serve State Troopers".   They lost their nerve and left.

I am glad to see gun and ammunition sales up.  The government needs to know 
at all times that the populace is armed and in the end has the final say.