While sieges haven't ended favorably throughout American history, the threat used to be explosives/IEDs and domestic terrorism. The ATF did a decent job of pol

While sieges haven't ended favorably throughout American history, the threat used to be explosives/IEDs and domestic terrorism. The ATF did a decent job of policing this but now the threat is shifting to insider threats and insurrection (something we're terrible at policing). When you can't beat the adversary in conventional warfare, you turn to psyops to use the adversary's own weapons against them. If the military gets called to your ranch, there's no guaranteeing whose side they'll fight on. You may start with plastic AR-15s...until sympathizers toss you the keys to the Abrams.