France firearms shortage

Saw this as a comment under a Facebook post:

A friend of my son is former French military. He and his family are in a French village where all of the police have been mobilized and sent to Paris. He and some old farmers have been deputized by the mayor to protect the village as the French populace is largely unarmed except those with vintage weapons grandparented in or those who didn't turn in their weapons after military service. The civilian population of France is virtually unprotected.

Never, never, ever, ever allow American citizens here in the U.S. to be compromised into a similar vulnerable disarmed position.