Of course that was back when they were $90 a copy. Now I see there are even shortages of Mosins and they are selling for much more.
(Heck, I stopped by the local Gander Mountain today and they didn't even have any .22 ammo. None. Nada. Zilch. Absolutely nothing.)
Actually, that is part of my plan, so to speak. I have a few 22’s and such. I figured inexperienced people could use them to assist and they pose less a risk in being turned on me.
I can’t even imagine a neighbor who not only hasn’t prepared but has no protection for their family. My obligation is to inform them to prepare and defend themselves. Thinking I need to store food for them and supply a weapon for them is liberalism and not what I’m about. I’ll help those who tried to help themselves and band together but keep the socialistic attitude out of my preps and planning.
I have a number of guns that I have picked up potentially for this purpose. Some police trade in beater Smith Model 10’s, and a few elderly 16 gauge pumpguns. (Why 16? When the first “ammo panic” hit, I bought up every 16 gauge buckshot and slug round in town, some had been on the shelves so long that they were priced $1.99 a box. Also, if these folks get overrun, the relative weirdness of the ammo is a real bottleneck to the guns being turned against others)
Not too sure about sharing with neighbors who lack foresight or firearms skills.Anyway, all of our neighbors are armed.
That’s a great idea...
Unfortunately, I don’t have any guns anymore...
I already sold all my guns for $10 apiece, to a newly arrived Mexican who said he wanted them for protection...
No background check, and I didn’t ask for any ID ‘cause I figured if he was OK for the US government to let into the country, that was good enough for me...
i’am not arming neighbors who know nothing about guns, much less’who don’t know me. i don’t want bullets coming back at me from my own weapons.
they had different priorities than i did, they chose what to spend money and time on. some have similar priorities.
Sadly, some of the new laws being proposed would make such a transfer a felony, and there is no David Gregory provision.
A number of years ago after a home invasion by trashmen which severely injured an elderly couple in my dad’s comfortable neighborhood, my father and two other older men went door to door to offer home defense classes to the neighbors. Many men and women took it up.
My father and his friends helped the neighbors purchase guns, taught them how to use them at the range, placed emergency signals in place at all the houses and I remember my father saying proudly: No one is unprotected in this neighborhood for blocks around.
There’s only a couple of neighbors I would feel comfortable handing a gun to, and they already have their own.
On the other hand, there are lots of neighbors who I would trust with a chainsaw. And I daresay most looters would run if confronted by angry residents armed with chainsaws.
(Especially if we dribbled some fake blood on the chainsaws first!)
If your neighbors aren’t armed, they are probably Democrats. I don’t think arming them is a good idea.
After four days without food, they are likely to sell themselves into slavery to you, and you can then get some stuff accomplished without the trying to tell you why you are wrong to think the way you do.
If anyone doesn’t see this comoing or take it seriously enough to get themselves armed, forget about them. Anyone lacking that initiative will always be a drag on the situation.
I am a big fan of firearms and firearms training (and an NRA-certified instructor), but after a crisis hits is not a time at which I would hand out weapons to those who don’t know how to shoot. I am more than willing to hand out ammo to certain neighbors who I know shoot, and I have the calibers they need, but I am not comfortable giving guns to unarmed and untrained neighbors.
Our advice to our neighbors is that we can warn you but we can’t feed you. Same with weapons.
Most likely people who have little or no experience with firearms will not have the stomach to use them anyway. They will get killed and the perps will take the firearms you handed out and then use them more effectively agains’t you.