Blacksmithing equipment can be pretty easily acquired or built... if you have someone who knows how to do it. Community Colleges and Tech Schools are great places to get the materials you'd need if there isn't a fully stocked up machine shop, automotive grages and the like.
several national guard armories have faclities for repairwork on AFV, they have materials for working on the weapons maintained in the stockpiles there...
It all takes is time to gather everything you need, and then it takes more time for getting the work on refurbishing decommssioned weapons, eqiupment and gear started. things would go faster if the tech school teachers and a good number of students are still in the area to become the core of the people doing the work under the supervision of highly trained engineers, armorers, gunsmiths and blacksmiths,
It takes time to get these things set up... and it takes time to do the kind of work needed.
Which makes the adpotion of orphaned weapons, equipent and vehicles of raiders by defenders all the more important for any communiity.
Home Guard being the most public face of the community defenders, especially since tney would be law enforcement and keeping the peace with the remaining police, fire & rescue/emergency services personnel combined with much of the Veterans in the community whom are to old or phyiscally unable to go out in the field being the very core of the Home Guard...
the local miliita units would be your rough and ready types who would have alot of hunters, physically able vets, boyscouts and the like whose greatest strenght would be their mobility and their extensive knowledge of the area of the surrounding territory while they preform their patrols, set up ambush zones and the like.. keeping the smaller threats as far away from the community, and when the find something they can't deal with... to aleart the Home Guard to get ready for a fight...
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