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RE: The r0ach report vol. 4: Prepping for the end of the world
The advice on weapons is insightful.
I'll offer a different overall advice. Move to Asia.
The advice on weapons is insightful.
I'll offer a different overall advice. Move to Asia.
There's all kinds of lunatics out there involved with weapons who give contradictory statements with one another. Common phrases are things like "I wouldn't use anything but a Glock or AK47 for doomsday weapon since you can bury both in the sand and still work after", or "Revolvers are no good, they don't hold enough ammo. Only a Glock is useful because it holds 17 rounds".
For people like cops, a Glock makes a lot of sense. You have the standard police tactic of aim center mass, then just pull the trigger and don't stop until they stop moving. Cops want to have all this ammo because they want to be able to aim at two suspects and dump tons of bullets at both center mass in a panic fire.
The problem for me with the Glock is, I feel that's really it's only good use is situations like that - very close range just mindless dumping center mass. The Glock is a "stand your ground" in close proximity weapon. With something like a S&W .357, I feel confident in being able to plink off a target at longer range, similar to a rifle. It's a good multi-purpose weapon in that regard. I'm not trying to get in some close range gun battle where people are dumping 17 rounds at each other from five feet away.
That's something cops do in their daily routine but not something I'm planning for. If I feel there's danger in being involved in situations like that on a daily basis, I'm going to be leaving the area and going somewhere else because you're probably going to end up dying no matter how good of a shot you are.
It's a game of trade offs with whatever you select. If the world actually does implode bad enough where you constantly need to stand your ground in confined spaces on a daily basis with a Glock, you'd be far better off walking around with something like an MP5 SMG (even though it would be impossible to find) strapped on your shoulder at all times with your finger on the trigger. Because at that point, you're in an urban warzone, and a Glock is not a weapon of war in the first place.
Of course, nobody uses MP5s because they don't go through common III-A body armor, so by the time an MP5 becomes useful, you're in a real war and everyone is walking around with things like select fire AR15s or worse. If I'm surrounded by crazies with AR15s, I'd rather be trying to compete with them using a S&W .357 rather than a Glock. But this goes back to the saying, the purpose of a hand gun is to use it to fight your way to the rifle.
All weapons have their own specific use case. If you're sleeping and in the middle of the night five people form "the hood" are trying to kick in your door, this is a stand your ground situation and you're going to want to have either a high capacity semi-auto hand gun, select fire rifle, or shotgun to stick out the window and unload the whole thing on them.
As you can see, out of those three choices, only one is viable for non-stand your ground situations and at longer range, so everything always comes back to the compact select fire rifle in the end. Of course, all of those are all illegal!