<\/strong>With the government shut down, we’re naturally all completely on our own.\u00a0 There is no law enforcement out there; picking up 911 will at best get you a dead line, and at worst an insane reaver on the other end of the line shrieking for your intestines on a stick.<\/p>\n So what do you need?\u00a0 Well, for my two cents, you really need four basics:<\/p>\n We’ll go through each of the categories below.<\/p>\n Battle Rifle<\/strong>:\u00a0 While this past year has brought a lot of attention to the AR15, this is (IMO) not an ideal weapon for a post-apocalyptic world.\u00a0 The AR (like the M16 on which it’s based) is a fine rifle, but it is also widely known as an incredibly temperamental piece that is very prone to jamming if you don’t keep it immaculately clean, and sometimes even then.\u00a0 And since you’ll be too busy scraping for food to keep your rifle clean, this might be a matter of life or death.<\/p>\n The point of a battle rifle is to never, ever, ever, ever jam, and to not run out of ammunition until\u00a0 your oppponent runs out of attack.\u00a0 No matter how many of them there are.\u00a0<\/p>\n So I recommend an AK-series piece:<\/p>\n The classic AK47<\/p><\/div>\n It’s a little heavy, and its accuracy drops off at 100 yards or so – but be honest, not only are you probably not that great a shot even at a rifle range on a clear day, but the odds that you’ll get a clean shot at a horde of bandits beyond 100 yards are pretty nil anyway.\u00a0 And with the AK, you can dip the bullets in toothpaste and roll them in dirt, load the magazine, and the gun will still work.\u00a0 And in a post-collapse world, that’s all that’s going to matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n Added bonus – its ammunition (7.62mm Communist) can actually be found, unlike the AR’s 5.56mm round.<\/p>\n Combat Shotgun<\/strong>:\u00a0 One of the benefits of every police department in US being awash in DHS counterterror money is that they all went out and bought M4 Carbines and H&K MP5 submachine guns to replace their good old Remington 870 Express police shotguns.\u00a0<\/p>\n Which means they are on the market modestly cheaply these days.<\/p>\n It’s not as “tacti-cool” as an M4, but it’s short enough to use indoors, its reliability is every bit as legendary as the AK, and there is no better close-in weapon in the world for when a gang of cannibalistic bandits breaks into your family perimeter at 4AM and you need to, er, organize your community.\u00a0<\/p>\n Defensive Handgun<\/strong>:\u00a0 Let’s call a spade a spade; for the time when you absolutely need a handgun to defend yourself against an immediately, lethal threat to your life, any gun you have is better than any gun you don’t have.\u00a0<\/p>\n But when you’re facing a ravenous cannibal in a dark alley while you’re dumpster-diving for oats, there is no substitute for the best man-stopper there is – any handgun in .45 ACP caliber.\u00a0<\/p>\n A Colt 1911, a Kimber Pro-Carry, an HK45, a SIG P220, or even a P250 with the conversion kit?\u00a0 A Paraordinance 15\/45?\u00a0 Take your pick.\u00a0 There is no substitute.\u00a0<\/p>\n Working Guns<\/strong>:\u00a0 These are the guns that you use for dealing with varmints and foraging for small targets of opportunity to throw in the stew pot.\u00a0 For this, I recommend the Taurus Judge revolver…<\/p>\n ….which has the huge advantage of firing both the .45 Long Colt cartridge (not to be mistaken for the .45 ACP above) and .410 gauge shotgun shells – making it useful for dealing with large varmints like wolves and bears, as well as rodents and fowl that haven’t been already hunted to extinction and\u00a0stripped to the bone by ravenous refugees.\u00a0<\/p>\n Your mileage may vary, of course – but this is intended as a starting point.<\/p>\n Except that with the government shut down and the ravenous mobs of bandits and reavers already dominating the streets, the time to start was yesterday.<\/p>\n Oops.\u00a0 Sorry about that.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “But Mitch!\u00a0 You’ll get some lefty ninny’s undies in a wad with this post”.<\/p>\n Well, duh.\u00a0 Why else write it?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s Day One of the Government Shutdown. \u00a0So as we watch society collapse all around us due to the lack of government, and await the hordes of crazed bandits, hungry for human flesh, that will doubtless be descending on society, people are asking me “what sort of collection of firearms do you recommend for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,48],"tags":[266],"class_list":["post-38738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-hot-gear-friday","tag-shutdownpocalypse-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38738"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42006,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38738\/revisions\/42006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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