In the event of a national declared financial emergency, anything can happen. Banks are chartered by the Government and completely subject to the laws of the government, including executive orders of the President. This country went through in in 1933, and to this day the Department of the Treasurey reserves to right to confesscate virtually anything it determines as required in a state of national emergency, including real estate, cars and food. Of course, dream on Washington D.C. if you think you can do this in a nation that is armed to the sky. Anything of value such as bullion (...)