If gun confiscation happens, it won't be a shoot out. You'll get 3 letters of advance notice filled with dire threats. Then a final warning (which will arrive a week late), and two late notices, full of threats. You'll hear that the people running the database can't keep track of how many weapons were turned it, so if you turn in anything and get a clean card, you'll in the record as having no guns. So you drive to the location to find out it was misprinted on the form. You call and google, and find the right place. You'll go through a humiliating pat-down for knives and drugs, but they won't take the gun or ammo you have in your hands - that's somebody else's job; wait in line. You'll wait in line all day long, to be turned away.
You'll come back earlier tomorrow, wait all day, and turn in a gun.When you turn in your gun, you get a receipt with no unique code. They throw your gun in a completely unsecure box, in an unsecure room. "It's easier now. When the door was locked, the guns would pile up until there was no more room. Now, the boxes are always empty in the morning."
The next week, you get a letter saying that due to a database crash, the government is not sure if you turned in your guns. You'll be ordered to fill out a form, under threat of imprisonment. You'll have the option of affirming that all your guns were turned in, or that they were not.If you affirm, you'll get the same letter every six months. If you refuse to affirm, you'll go on a waiting list. Two to five years later, a guy with a high school diploma will show up to take your guns. You won't need a gun to kill this guy, a ten-year old could beat this guy down. He won't have your name right and the names of guns on his list won't be the names of guns ever actually made; the records are obviously all mixed up. If you tell him your name is Juan and you're renting from [you], he won't be back for another 2 to 5 years.
This is how our government works anyway, why should gun confiscation be any different?
I distinctly recall, when I was in the Marines, having to sign a document confirming that I signed another document. I also recall being required to print out the paperwork reduction act one year as a prerequisite of filing my taxes.
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Other places will have swat teams kicking down little old widow lady's doors, shooting their Teacup Schnauzer, and then sacking the place looking for the guns that somewhere, somehow, the neighbor's address (two neighbor's ago) got accidentally miss-keyed to be owned at her address. This, of course, will be considered perfectly ok because the swat team was following procedure, and the charges for having a gun WOULD have been so serious that it warrants such extreme tactics. That, and officer safety, because you never know when a little old lady will pull out a gat and start slinging lead, just ask the TSA.
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Damn, if that's not how it would be.
Most government operations happen as DustyDog describes, more or less.
But those in which the players themselves have a strong emotional invesment tend to operate a bit more like Stuart's second scenario.
When the govt players have strong, personal HATE for your beliefs or even you as an untermensch, you're on the poopy end of the Waco / Ruby Ridge stick. (And do note that Eric Holder was behind the curtain of BOTH those wonderful operations.)
In some places, the govt players will NOT have hate for you or or your guns; in a few, they'll actually be on your side. In other places, you're an idiot to still be there.
This has the added benefit of giving the USPS something to do now that Netflix has switched to streaming.
Ignore, lie, hide, and aim to misbehave, or expect to die in a re-education camp later. History repeats itself much to often to ignore it and the lessons from it.
Then there's the LAPD way of doing things....