Your fallout shelter guns .... then (oh no!) another plot twist, its the early 1980s ....

[monkeybutler]

Some kinda skinny-barreled Colt AR carbine.
Browning Hi-Power
870 or 590

Slayer, Metallica, Sepultura, older Priest, Dio, Ozzy

 

[fstdraw]

I agree with most of the fine suggestions with the addition of an AR with a WOT.

 

[coop44]

1980's huh?
A model 70 in 30-06
An 870 of course ( Mossberg made junk in the 80's)
A mini 14 with an a team stock
A 1911a1

Playlist
Every Beatles album
Every Who album
Pink Floyd dark side of the moon
Emerson, Lake and Palmer's brain salad surgery
Mozart's piano concertos
John Phillip Sousa's marching music (it's a psyops thing)

 

[DunRanull]

Not the same era as the 80's....
But now I got a hankering to re-read Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein....Hmmm...
Spring break in going on , might be a good time to do so.....Thanks CountryGent...
Andy

Farnham's Freehold- Set smack dab in my neck of the woods in the Pike's Peak region.... and Tunnel In The Sky... both (along with other things) set me on the prepper path...

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Farnham's Freehold- Set smack dab in my neck of the woods in the Pike's Peak region.... and Tunnel In The Sky... both (along with other things) set me on the prepper path...

Tunnel in the sky ..is a favorite read of mine...I have a couple of beat paperbacks...would love a hardback ...someday.
Andy

 

[DunRanull]

Mid-80's.... hmmm... Colt AR15, Mini 14, S&W M&P .38 spec, Mossberg .22lr bolt rifle, Ruger MkI .22 auto, 12 ga pump 870, .45acp Colt New Service... 7.92x57 Spanish Mauser beater, which needed a lot of restorative work to really be a decent functional rifle, (which I did myself). Bought it at a K-Mart at age 19 when I really started worrying about the Coming Apocalypse/Revolution.
Lord knows what else I had around in the mid '80's... Read everything written by Mel Tappan that I could get my hands on...
Now? Why, nothing, of course. Gunz is dangerous, could put an eye out with one.... Might even be eeeelegal someday....

 

[titsonritz]

Not going to make much difference.

 

[mrblond]

a set of this

 

[FATAL125]

1980's
- AK-47
- CZ 75
- Benelli M1 - 18"

Now
- AK-47
- CZ P10F
- Benelli M4 - 18"

 

[Nosferatu]

Same as today: GE Minigun. It would also provide the acoustics.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Where's countrygent? Last post was March 1.

 

[gmerkt]

In the 1980's, I was taking a break from guns - raising children. I remember the AR-180's of the 1970's, as shown in the OP. The ones I recall were made in Japan. They were priced about like an AR15 at the time, it seems to me. The average gun guy wasn't all that interested in black plastic guns, yet. So the distinction between gas impingement and a piston was lost on most people of the moment.

So what I had for survival guns in the 1980's were relatively few:

H&R Topper .410 shotgun
Beat-up 8mm Mauser Kar98a from WW1
Beat-up Smith & Wesson Model 10 that I brought back from Vietnam
Stevens Model 53 single shot .22 LR
Remington 870 deer gun

I did manage to swing an M1 Rifle from the DCM in 1985.

I was still listening to Deep Purple.

 

[The Heretic]

Norinco 86S - ten 20 rd mags with expanding ammo
SIG P226 in 9mm
Benelli M1

That was what I would choose from the era.

What I actually had:

Ruger 77 in .308
Star PD in 45 ACP
High Standard in .22 rimfire

Very little ammo - especially compared to today.

 

[gmerkt]

Very little ammo - especially compared to today.

Oh yeah. When I was a teenager in the 1960's, center fire ammo counts were very slim. Problem was, we'd use most of it up on shooting trips. Then slowly reaccumulate it until the next time. But in between trips, a handful might be the all of it.

Now in old age, even in contemporary times of scarcity, I have a wealth of ammo. Not as much as I had at one time, though. I reduced my stock a few years ago.