OT: Alien invasion

[Adm.Lee]

Originally Posted by weswood

And just to make it interesting, I'd make the U.S. have strict gun laws. Law abiding citizens would be able to own a shotgun with a barrel of 20" or more, and non-cartridge black powder weapons.

Given that you'd be imposing 2+ months of Twilight War-like conditions on the survivors of the EMPs, I can't see why the survivors wouldn't scarfed up all the guns they could find anyway. This seems like a no-never-mind.

[weswood]

Originally Posted by Adm.Lee

Given that you'd be imposing 2+ months of Twilight War-like conditions on the survivors of the EMPs, I can't see why the survivors wouldn't scarfed up all the guns they could find anyway. This seems like a no-never-mind.

I was thinking that before I finished Forstchen's "One Second After" and primarily Weber's "Out of The Dark" where a couple of the main characters are gun store/range owners and had access to all kinds of weaponry, including a Barrett .50.