jehicks87
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Gym, first, I'm sorry for calling you some innawoods nutcase. My apologies. However, the thing about "shtf" situations is that you can only do so much. People who are starting communes are crazies. They aren't "prepared," they are obsessive. The government didn't almost "shut down." In the event of a so-called gov't shutdown, all NON-essential personnel would have been told to stay home. Not, "Oh, come on in to work but we aren't going to pay you." The military, federal LE, etc. would have still been paid. Same if we had defaulted, which I assume is the second shutdown you are referring to. It also would not have directly related to your state agencies, unless the state gov't subscribed to the panic that the layperson did.
Also, in the Katrina situation, I actually lost a friend (Fraternity Brother) to gunfire there. The kicker of that situation is, he was a private security contractor carrying an AR and a Glock. He wasn't killed because his weapon didn't go bang, he was killed because someone got the upper hand on him and slipped away, never to be caught. By a 9mm pistol round. Pretty sure that one wasn't shot from 800 meters.
I also have served overseas in Afghanistan, where when the AR platform did fail to go bang it cost Americans their lives. Not reservists or nat'l guardsmen, but "professional" infantry soldiers. I have never seen a real AK fail to operate when in the hands of a professional adversary. Never. And even in Afghanistan, most engagements are well within the effective range of the 7.62x39 round. And trust me, there is plenty of wide-open space in Afghan. We just don't shoot it out over the desert. Why? Because people are smart, and a smart opponent will never engage someone or willingly cause an engagement to happen outside of their own TTP's.
And I honestly feel that is enough about SHTF real-life scenarios that I have personal and true second-hand experience with for this thread. If you'd like to continue this, please make another and let's not clutter up this guy's thread, which if you will recall had nothing to do with "Rawr I wants a badass GAT for when SHTF, YO!"
Also, in the Katrina situation, I actually lost a friend (Fraternity Brother) to gunfire there. The kicker of that situation is, he was a private security contractor carrying an AR and a Glock. He wasn't killed because his weapon didn't go bang, he was killed because someone got the upper hand on him and slipped away, never to be caught. By a 9mm pistol round. Pretty sure that one wasn't shot from 800 meters.
I also have served overseas in Afghanistan, where when the AR platform did fail to go bang it cost Americans their lives. Not reservists or nat'l guardsmen, but "professional" infantry soldiers. I have never seen a real AK fail to operate when in the hands of a professional adversary. Never. And even in Afghanistan, most engagements are well within the effective range of the 7.62x39 round. And trust me, there is plenty of wide-open space in Afghan. We just don't shoot it out over the desert. Why? Because people are smart, and a smart opponent will never engage someone or willingly cause an engagement to happen outside of their own TTP's.
And I honestly feel that is enough about SHTF real-life scenarios that I have personal and true second-hand experience with for this thread. If you'd like to continue this, please make another and let's not clutter up this guy's thread, which if you will recall had nothing to do with "Rawr I wants a badass GAT for when SHTF, YO!"