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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
An explanation of the apparent lack of weaponry in US civilian hands may be either a tightening of Laws during the early years of the war, or a call for weapons, any weapons for the soldiers to train with.
Another factor which seems overlooked is the waves of refugees from the cities. They will encounter defended farms and settlements, and likely the mob mentality will associate that with food and shelter and you may well see waves of unarmed or lightly armed refugees storming the defenders.
These "captured" weapons may be distributed amongst the survivors, or the ammo stocks seriously depleted during a successful defence. The weapons themselves may survive, but calibers commonly associated with auto or semiauto weapons would quickly become rare. Even faster firing weapons such as pump action shotguns might find themselves short or ammo rather quickly.
Sooner or later these weapons would be discarded as useless - a $10,000 automatic shotgun without ammo is nothing more than an unwieldy club, an iron bar is both cheaper and more effective.
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Goes to show you don't know much about America and its Gun Owners Leg.
"Calibers commonly associated with auto or semiauto weapons" are pretty much 75% of all ammo sold in the US. Went to a local gunshow in a fairly small town not that far from DC, and I saw more than one vender selling 5.56 by the case, and showing up with 200+ cases and leaving with none. And thats actually *normal*. Out west when I was living in Colorado, I knew of a dozen folks, that do not fall into the gun nut/prepper crowd buy ammo in thousand round lots. And twelve gauge and 9mm can be found in the corner gas station - not to mention in every walmart!
GUn folks here are cheapskates and or paraniod about the gov'ment enough to know that its cheaper to buy ammo in large amounts if they are the sorts to own more than one or two weapons and/or "evil black rifles" - and Class Three folks (THose that own legal belted machine-guns and other, much more bigger things - and do note, the US *does* make the RPG in suburban Chicago, and not for foreign or military sales) are even worse! I get catalogues in the mail all the time that lists 4 or different places to buy all sorts of ammunition in thousand round lots. And not just the NATO stuff either...
In fact, now that I think about it, every block of 7.62 NATO that I used to buy was from Oz Army Stocks that was sold as surplus. Hrm. So, do you all have any left down that way?
