Last point first, body armor for center mass makes it a problem. Bullets are expensive too, no need to waste using 3 if you can shoot once in the head. Shooting a foot is actually faster than shooting body mass if drawing from hip but does require a second bullet to finish the job.

OK, scale of issue. The average modern American is simply not equipped to fight. So while yes, there are a lot of them, the average American will do nothing. In America there are maybe 35 million civilians who would be a problem for a dictatorship takeover. I agree that you are correct, it would take 3 million to do this quickly but in reality, if you do it right you really only need a million to handle 95% of it because you do not do the West Coast states until last. This is why they are bleeding the population right now financially and will continue to do so for 2 or 3 more months. To reduce the food levels in cities and towns. Food levels in big cites are easy to calculate and in most big cities weapons are even easier since it is the ammo that you control, not the guns. America has been short handed on Ammo for a decade at least. Most people have less than 100 rounds on hand. even gang bangers are in this position.

Searching is even easier because they will be using AI and purchasing and internet histories to define who to search. People do not think, The bad part of all this tech is exactly how easy it is to identify what you have bought in the last 5 years, where you have gone and what you have said.

Since 911 every single call, email, and online communication goes through a search and storage. Every time you use a card that info is kept. Cash sales make up the least of purchases. So, I expect it to go down like this on the PR side.

After running the appropriate histories of every American they will first hit everyone who has purchased a lot of guns or ammo first, most will be "killed" in a gunfight then they will announce this person had thousands of rounds of ammo and several guns. This will take out over half of the privately held large caches of ammo in the American public and probably be less than 10,000 houses. I have no doubt they will lie extensively about why they do it.

If you think that trumps troops will refuse to gun down American civilians you are wrong, they desire this above all other things.

Food will dwindle in homes, it is already a serious problem now. There are 20 MILLION Americans right now with almost or no food in their homes and that number increases every month. Look at food banks if you don't believe me.

Control, most Americans live in cities now and you can control a city the size of New York with 15,000 troops. You simply shoot the protestors first, shut down utilities erratically, and control food and exits. Use drones to patrol with AI. Now you know the real reason all these big AI datacenters are being built. Look at when they are supposed to come online. Then remember, they rely upon fiber optic connections but have limited satellite backup communications and cellular communication backups. Even power backup for 7 to 30 days with local generators. META is not your friend and never has been.

Lastly, 30% of Americans are old. Simply taking away their medications will kill most of them quickly, taking away medication, food, and power will kill most within a month or two. Their greatest strength is the fact they are old, so they can trade lives without the biggest problem that they really want to live.

The pot lid is closing down every day. Don't believe me, look at the American death rate. Since April it has increased and will continue to go up while the birth rate has dropped dramatically.

Immigrants were targeted first for several reasons, they are not nearly as stupid as Americans when it comes to seeing the obvious and are generally in far better physical shape than the average American couch potato. And remember, trump and the GOP cannot allow midterms elections. They need a real war on American streets even if they have to make one. Starving people will not vote for those who made them starve.