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Originally Posted by Tegyrius
I would expect that in any state whose National Guard units were under Title 10 orders, the governor would be very resistant to giving the state guard any assignment that hinted at federal control (such as maintaining federal facilities). Once the NG deploys, the state guard and the state police are the last organized forces the governor has at his disposal.
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But once Federal control / authority collapsed and garrisons walked off, then governors or whoever the remaining state powers that be would have strong motivation to seize / occupy Federal facilities.
I'm not sure about other state guards, but I'm pretty sure that the Texas State Guard is completely unarmed (aside from privately owned weapons). Transitioning from an unarmed support organization to an armed militia would be a challenge, which again might motivate those units to occupy or raid NG and Federal facilities to arm themselves.