EOTWAWAKI Firearm Manufacturing & Maintenance

[bradsteen]

Random thought. Should we ever face a real EOTWAWAKI situation, what effect do you think that would have on gun manufacturing, ownership, maintenance, and related things in the long term?

Would people just scavenge and repair existing firearms, or try to do home-builds from non-firearm parts? Would guns become largely irrelevant due to lack of easy access to gunpowder and other refined manufactured goods? Would we see more of a focus on purpose-built guns and less on mass-produced consumer-grade firearms, or the inverse due to increased need for consistent and reliable firearms in a post-law world?

This is obviously a theoretical exercise with a lot of variables that could change outcomes, but curious to see what you all think.

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[GWS]

Random thought. Should we ever face a real EOTWAWAKI situation, what effect do you think that would have on gun manufacturing, ownership, maintenance, and related things in the long term?

Would people just scavenge and repair existing firearms, or try to do home-builds from non-firearm parts? Would guns become largely irrelevant due to lack of easy access to gunpowder and other refined manufactured goods? Would we see more of a focus on purpose-built guns and less on mass-produced consumer-grade firearms, or the inverse due to increased need for consistent and reliable firearms in a post-law world?

This is obviously a theoretical exercise with a lot of variables that could change outcomes, but curious to see what you all think.

At some point, metallic cartridge firing guns will become clubs. This why having a flintlock rifle might not be a bad idea for the bottom of the collapse. You can make your own black powder and with a mold you can cast your own bullets from lead that can easily be scrounged

 

[GrayGoose]

If TEOTWAWKI is anything like some of the Walking Dead episodes where everyone has suppressed machine guns and unlimited ammo, then I'm not worried, I think we're gonna be just fine.

 

[ma96782]

Random thought. Should we ever face a real EOTWAWAKI situation, what effect do you think that would have on gun manufacturing, ownership, maintenance, and related things in the long term?

Would people just scavenge and repair existing firearms, or try to do home-builds from non-firearm parts? Would guns become largely irrelevant due to lack of easy access to gunpowder and other refined manufactured goods? Would we see more of a focus on purpose-built guns and less on mass-produced consumer-grade firearms, or the inverse due to increased need for consistent and reliable firearms in a post-law world?

This is obviously a theoretical exercise with a lot of variables that could change outcomes, but curious to see what you all think.

RE : Post #1
TEOTWAWKI

NOT saying that it'll actually be like what is depicted in/by watching TV Shows and Hollywierd Movies about TEOTWAWKI.

BUT, But, but......
I suspect that......
Alot of the answers that you seek are probably right there.

Fiction is entertaining and can be educational at times. LOL.

Aloha, Mark

 

[edzz]

TEOTWAWKI -- Like before the mask hysteria?

 

[bradsteen]

Thought it was "end of the world as we all know it"... guess not.

 

[nwslopoke]

After initial days of conflict I don't think there will be a lot of shooting. People will figure out what guns can do. Point being, very few people will out shoot the guns they have.

Strangely enough, The Gun Room in Portland would actually be a resourceful place. Old, reliable and plentiful. Guns that won't melt in the fires.

 

[Member 3687]

It would all depend on what the cause of the end would be and how devastating it was to start with.

I say this because if it is just ½ the country/world was at war fighting an enemy the rest of would-be producing goods as fast as they could but if it is an all-out walking dead then production will be gone so when the supplies run out, they are gone.

Now many of the folks on this forum have a supply of guns and ammo and many have replacement parts for said guns, then on top of that the US has more guns and ammo than most countries militaries so finding guns and ammo may not be that hard especially if most folks are turned into Zombies as they do not use them.

Heck the bad guys seem to get guns even with all the laws and many seem to get Auto Glock switches without problems either as of late.

How many on this forum also own Silencers, body armor, military vehicles and that is just plain folk then you have all the military bases and gun stores and yes, they would be popular shopping/looting spots for the living during a SHTF but there are more guns and ammo out there than the population in the US.

So, unless there is just an EMP and 90% of all folks live at first and there just is no power to produce any thing I feel during most SHTF situation guns, ammo and parts will be around for a long while at least in the US.

Now once the 90% of living folks start killing each other or starving to death then you will have battle field pickups, so still no problem.

When ammo runs out its homemade bows and arrows and sling shots.