Washington Times columnist and National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent claimed that gun owners will be the next Rosa Parks if President Obama issues an executive order confiscating guns.

While Vice President Joe Biden has suggested that the White House could take executive action on guns, no one in the administration has said that such action would involve gun confiscation. The administration has reportedly previously considered executive action to ensure that more records of mental illness were included in the FBI's background check system.

During an interview with conspiracy clearinghouse WorldNetDaily, Nugent predicted that if an “actual confiscatory directive” came from Obama, then “heroes of the law enforcement will defy this order.” Nonetheless, he worried that there were “enough soulless sheep within our government who would act on such an illegal order” and predicted peaceful resistance from “law-abiding gun owners,” who would “be the Rosa Parks and we will sit down on the front seat of the bus” :

“If it comes to the actual implementation of an actual confiscatory directive from our president, then I do believe that the heroes of the law enforcement will defy this order. I do believe that there are enough soulless sheep within our government who would act on such an illegal order but I believe the powers that be at the local, state, and regional law enforcement would halt such an illegal, anti-American order,” said Nugent. Nugent continued, "You are talking to a guy who talks to more gun owners in more heated and concerned conversations than anyone who lives. These are top notch heroes of law enforcement and military who understand this experiment in self-government and we will not let it [gun confiscation] happen, we will do it peaceful. “But there will come a time when the gun owners of America, the law-abiding gun owners of America, will be the Rosa Parks and we will sit down on the front seat of the bus, case closed.”

Nugent's comments are also being promoted by Fox Nation.

Last week, former NRA president Marion Hammer faced widespread criticism for claiming that a proposal by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to ban assault weapons was similar to racial discrimination. Hammer told NRA News that “banning people and things because of the way they look went out a long time ago. But here they are again. The color of a gun. The way it looks. It's just bad politics.”

After news of a potential executive order on guns emerged on January 9, Matt Drudge highlighted the report with pictures of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.