The government has in the past confiscated everybody's gold due to an 'emergency'.
Executive Order 6102 is an executive order signed on April 5, 1933, by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt "forbidding the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States." The executive order was made under the authority of the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, as amended by the Emergency Banking Act in March 1933.
The government has in the past confiscated everybody's gold due to an 'emergency'.
Shit, I gotta move to Alaska