For those who want to catch up
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There is a lot of gun wierdness on Jericho, but I suspect that they have contracted with some prop house that has a color catalog, and the director just thumbs through it and picks guns from there. It is cool that the local sherrif/mayor's department had a rack of M-1 carbines, fits well with Johnston's background, plus for a while the US military was giving them out to local police departments, I can definately see Johnston Green having the attitude of 'hell yea we'll take 10, 20 if you can spare em!'
However, I suspect that it was just the director flipping through the catalog, saw a gun with a wood stock and a blued barrel, saw the company had listed they had 10 of em, figured it would work good for some of the early scenes, and looked less military than the ARs or AKs to his uneducated eyes.
Same with some of the scenes vs Blackwater. Some guys at the blocade had lever action rifles, but they weren't Winchester 94 lever actions in 30-30, they were henries and yellowboys. Unless the locals who had em were into Cowboy Action Shooting, that just didn't fit....except when you figure the prop company has got some correct for cowboy erra lever actions and that is what gets picked out of the catalog.
Hell, even in this latest episode, Other Brother (I cannot ever remmber his name) is riding around as a scout with an over-under shotgun slung across his back, *** is that? Take a hacksaw to it, use it as backup, then get yourself one of the many hunting rifles you see Johnston Green has.
Somehow a while back a FEMA camp of refugees erupted in violence, and a group of people got ahold of some military uniforms, radios, some guns (but barely any ammo) and a tank (which of course makes no sense) and went around faking it to get food. Jericho was almost fooled, but ended up with the tank. (no ammo for it)
I really expected to see the tank appear and run the mortar unit over. Even without it's own weaponry, a tank driving around in your formations is going to have the same effect as elephants did to the bronze age armies.
Old Dead Grandpa Green appears to have been quite wealthy, and somewhat of a survival nut himself. Apparently in preporation for a USSR attack, his grandsons were trained to identify military aircraft by airborne silloette. I was really hoping we were going to see 2 stockpiles of weapons this episode. I was hoping Johnston Green would have nodded acceptance of the deal (or better yet say "All right I can agree to the all gas all trucks all guns, but NOT the mortars, they aren't going to be of any use to out there, they are only good for attacking an entire town, and if you plan on doing that, well, we'll fight you right now about that") Then say 'Jake, other Brother, go get some shovels we got to go dig up under the floorboards of the horsebarn' Hawkins then asks for jakes assistance first.
Greens seem the type to me to have a few crates of WWII surplus mausers burried somewhere. That would have been a great scene, Johnston Green pulls back a tarp revealing 4 crates covered with dirt, pops one open to reveal 5-10 mausers or mosin-nagants. Then Hawkins and Jake pull up, "We got some guns too!" and pulls back his tarp revealing handguns and evil black assault rifles.
Of course, I thought the amount of handguns Hawkins had stockpiled was kind of silly. I can understand a few, but really, for every handgun you stockpile, that is one less SKS you COULD have stockpiled. Have enough handguns for your immediate family to have as sidearms, but when you are stockpiling to arm a militia in TEOTWAWKI, rifles rifles rifles
Now us highroaders I am all sure if somehow caught without our personal firearms would be clamoring for the AR-15s in hawkin's stash, but once those ran out and he started handing out pistols, we'd all say 'no thanks, I am going to go get one of those mausers Green is handing out!'