Who has ordered such a thing (nominally) - is the an organ of government that even possesses such a power?
During the great heist and power grab in the US in 1933 (called the "New Deal"), gold was ordered to be turned in, yet about 1% only did it.
The likely result of this that a government that has anyway lost its legitimacy among people is getting a one more formal claim that all the citizens are criminals, and may be selectively prosecuted unless they keep their mouth shut in the coming robberies.
My strategy has for some time been to ignore such. I am too dangerous to them that they would too much care whether I break their monkey-law or not. (I may have broken some law in the past, but in every case of the official harassment, it has not even involved my breaking the law - their attack against me is not motivated by real or even perverted sense of justice, but solely by the political expediency and what resources they have at hand at the moment and who other they need to whack-the-mole).
Some thoughts:
(1) Yes, in 1933 the government was not able to grab much of the gold. I read estimates of around 10% of the gold was seized. But, whether the amount was 1% or 10% does matter much, 90% + was NOT seized. And in 1933 there was far more faith in .gov than there is now. On the other hand, gold was considered money, and so .gov essentially defaulted on its own citizens (seizing the gold by paying $22 / oz in paper, THEN raising the gold price to $35), and the best arguments that I have read suggest that government does not NOW need the gold, they can inflate...
(2)
rpietila, I am sure that you well know that the Soviets under Stalin enacted their laws such that EVERY CITIZEN committed at least one felony or other serious crime every day. This was so that the Communist PTB could arrest anyone at any time, and it would be "legal".
Political crime like this is a real danger going forward.(3) "
... in the coming robberies." Nicely put. I do not see how .gov & banksters do NOT rob the citizens to keep their corrupt ponzis and schemes going... It is Easy Money for those at the top.