Unintended Consequences, yes. I remember the author stating something like his friend told him "publishing this book will get you killed". Read it during Hussein years and I could see why.
Hemp rope.
You can find the pdf online if you're interested.
https:// www.goodreads.com/book/show/78082.Unintended_Consequences#
"Almost 900 pages, and I read this in less than a week. Excellent combination of historical fiction and political thriller, this work chronicles the deterioration of gun rights in the United States by following a family through the 20th century. Included are detailed fictionalized accounts of the Ruby Ridge massacre, the FBI shootout in Miami in 1986, and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of World War II. The book then moves to the present day, describing a rouge government agency that attempts to criminalize legal gun owners, and armed resistance breaks out.
Not for the faint of heart, this book is violently and sexually graphic, and its message will be objectionable to most. But it presents an interesting thought exercise–were the Founding Fathers serious when they established the 2nd amendment as a means of citizens defending themselves in the face of tyranny? And if so, what would that look like in the 21st century?"
https:// www.goodreads.com/review/show/271304419?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1
"Unintended Consequences" by John Ross is a scary, scary book. It's frightening partly because while the book is a work of fiction, so much of the story is based in actual history. There's surprising amount of actual true stories in this novel, a lot of it stories most of us haven't heard before.
Did you know admired military men President Eisenhower, General MacArthur and General Patton participated in an operation in 1933 where they led troops against American citizens in the US and many innocent men were injured or killed as a result? Yeah, I didn't know it either, but it's documented: http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army
I knew there were some pretty ridiculous federal anti-gun laws restricting the sale of automatic weapons (e.g. machine guns,) but what I didn't know is that the great-granddaddy of these laws, the National Firearms Act of 1934, was ruled unconstitutional in a federal court very soon after the law was enacted. The Supreme Court later reversed the lower court's decision, thereby upholding the law, but this was partly because there was no attorney defending the original defendants. The case went to the Supreme Court with a government prosecutor arguing for the government and nobody to represent the other side. The prosecutor got away with quite a bit he wouldn't have had there been a halfway intelligent lawyer there defending.
"Unintended Consequences" asserts that the National Firearms Act was passed as a result of the repeal of Prohibition. All those tax agents that had been prosecuting moonshiners and speakeasies during the era of Prohibition couldn't lose their jobs once Prohibition was repealed, so the National Firearms Act was passed to give them something to enforce.
John Ross covers lots of history in this book, from 1934, through World War II and straight into Ruby Ridge, Waco, and the Oklahoma City federal building bombing (which was blamed on a "gun nut.") Ross paints the US government as abusive, out of control, and downright evil in how they selectively enforce gun laws. The ATF is shown as frequently entrapping otherwise law-abiding citizens.
When a gun dealer and enthusiast who obeys every gun law to the letter crosses the ATF by embarrassing an agent attempting to entrap him at a gun show, the ATF plans its revenge on him. They plan a raid of his house and his friends' houses when they're out of town and plan to plant illegal evidence. What they don't anticipate is that he hasn't actually left town yet and he catches them in the act. This is the final straw for these men. They declare war on the government.