Deutsche Bank Is Crashing Again: Why One Hedge Fund Expects Much More Pain For European Banks, page-62

Yes they may nationalise the mines, and they may make it illegal to buy and sell gold...Unless it is a sale to the government at a nationalised store at a nationalised price.......( that's if the worse ever happens)....

I think in the 1930's if you had or traded gold ie bought or sold......it was up to 5 years in a American Federal Prison......