Running? Or Staying?
If we are running from something slower than we are, then a Glock 19 and a Keltech Sub2000 - both 9mm. If we're running from something faster than we are, it won't matter.
The 9mm pistol/carbine combo in the truck is cheap to run, holds alot and takes care of the social situation as I navigate my way back home. That is the plan. Not stopping to shoot something, skin it, make a fire, cook it and eat it while I plan with my brothers how to rebuild civilization. No, that's not going to make it here in the urban jungle. Not bugging out...no future in being a refugee...I'm bugging in. Gas and food wouldn't last anyways. Plan is to get home now, where my shelter and safety are, and once I am home, the Garands, the ARs, and the Mossbergs all come out. At least for the first ninety days. If the power doesn't go out, whatever has happened will be short term, a few days. If the power does go out, no atms, no gas pumps, no street lights...most people have never experienced "real" darkness...no house lights, no traffic lights. If it stays out, well...
It seems reasonable in a serious situation that the first two weeks will see every WalMart, KMart, 7/11, et al, stripped to the bone. Batteries, candles, milk, diapers...gone in sixty seconds so to speak. Then the fighting in the streets will begin. Lots of people with guns and those without, all of them hungry and angry at the same time. Fires in the downtown areas raging unchecked...fire departments empty because everyone went home to their families. Cops will be non existent. Hospitals will be chaos and burn also.
Within four weeks those who haven't been killed or crippled will start to migrate out of the city limits searching for whatever they need. Gangs will be prevalent for a short while, till they can no longer feed themselves, then it will be every man for himself. People like us will have to be quiet as a churchmouse. Democracy will be done. Womens rights will be over. Mens options will be down to one.
Within six weeks there probably won't be a cat or small dog left, and large dogs will gradually end up as food after a few weeks running in packs. The noise and the stench of this kind of meltdown will make anyone with shelter stay inside and be quiet until the worst of it is over.
I hope I will be living off what I have put by and doing it quietly with my neighbors. We have established a loose confederation, who is responsible for what and when. Regular trips to Costco/Sam's/WalMart for what's next on the list. Buy two, put one away, after a year you have a six month supply stored. Been doing that for several years now. Don't know if it will work out in the end, and don't want to find out, but it's a start. Candlelight, property patrols with the dogs, listening to the sounds of society dissolving. Could be exciting. Sure will beat all those reality shows and video games!