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Originally Posted by _Q_
Well also there's the fact that if you're at war with the US government, chances are you no longer care about the laws of the land and you'll obtain those weapons you need to fight the US army either legally or illegally. Weapons are smuggled in all the time now into Iraq through Turkey, Iran and Jordan. If a civil war broke out in America, Canadians and Mexicans would find a way to arm their rebel buddies in the US since the profit from such an endeavour would be astronomical.
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The first thing that the U.S. government would do in the case of a rebellion like that would be to effectively seal the borders. You would no longer have fat customs cops on the line, you'd have army and marines. You would have blackhawk helicopters with infra red look down searching for tunnels.
They don't do it now because it would be hideously expensive and would send the wrong message to their neighbours. but give them a reason and mandate and nothing is coming in or leaving.
And this is on the U.S. militaries home turf, you're going to face their full army on a short logistics train unlike in Iraq and Afghanistan.