RE:Bitcoin is now dead and America is planning the funeralIf the authorities did manage to confiscate precious metals, then the world wouldn't be worth living in any more in any event. Our governments would gain effectively omnipotent power. Inflation is a tax, and if you can't own precious metals, then you have no way of preserving the fruits of your labour, because the government can then tax you indefinitely with inflation. Hence you become a slave, quite literally. The bubbles would never deflate, the real economy would get worse and worse, and the general population would become a race of slaves living on UBI. The top 1% would continue to get ever richer, because they already own 90% of the assets--everybody else would get perpetually priced out. FedCoin would be implemented. Everything that you bought or sold would be tracked and traced; your purchases would be limited to whatever the government wanted you to buy; and the spending of political dissenters would be cut off.
Fundamentally, silver is not merely a financial investment but a moral and spiritual battle and I hope that the population would resist any efforts at confiscation. This is why spreading the word about silversqueeze is so important, and why growing the movement is important. The more silver in the greater number of hands, the better. Another consideration is that not every country will necessarily ban precious metals. Asia is hoarding gold and preparing to dump the dollar, so if the West starts persecuting precious-metals investors, there may be other countries to run to in order to escape this persecution.