Every year of my life a politician says he will take away the guns---yet they remain in citizen's hands. Approximately 260,000,000 weapons in a citizenry of 340,000,000. If the citizens say, ( NO!), the government won't take them. The Russians and Chinese can get the guns but only after the citizens shove them down their throats or up their rears.
The Russians should fear China as they share border. An old Cold War joke: China and Russia fought a war. On the first day the Russians captured 1 million Chinese; second day they captured 3 million Chinese; third day 10 million Chinese were captured;; on the fourth day---Russia surrendered.
Wizard