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The one serious prepper I know has a legally-owned belt-fed machine gun - among many other arsenal items - guarding the entrance to his "bug out room." Good luc

• defrost 3y ago
  The warlords will do just fine .. after a year or two or three your buddy with his rapid-pop gun will either play nice, die alone, or get killed when least expected. See: Heavily armed Japanese soldiers on Pacific islands post WWII.
  • trogdor 3y ago
    I'm not sure most preppers are preparing for a world war, but if that's the context, your point is well-taken.
    • defrost 3y ago
      "Societal collapse" if that is what we're talking about, isn't just for christmas .. it will persist for some years. It's a funny old thread in any case - I'm a >60 year old Australian who grew up in the Kimberley region in a minority amoungst people who truly lived off the grid and had done so for tens of thousands of years. The people that raised me were born in the 1920s and 1930s and many had survived the collapse of European society in South East Asia and Japanese internment, some having formed long range insurrgency groups to spy on | terrorise Japanese soldiers and coordinate long range bombing of oil extraction points and depots through SE Asia (all a bit before I was born, obviously). I'm related to people that charged on horse back belt fed machine guns across four miles armed with bayonets. They 'won'[1] Where I am now my neighbour shoots ULR at 24 inch targets 5,000 yards distant [2] US preppers are pretty funny. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Beersheba_(1917) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Beersheba_(1917) [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7owwTz7Z0OE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7owwTz7Z0OE