(Continued from Part 4.)
Most survivalists tend to concentrate on their area of expertise and interest. The majority of survivalists I know are men and we tend to accumulate guns. It is just part of the nature of man that we like tools and guns are at their most basic level tools. I know of no survivalists or preppers without at least one gun unless they are just starting out. Over time, gun collections have a tendency to grow. Gun control for a survivalist is as the joke says means “buying just one gun instead of five.” One major problem is that often guns are often bought without any real plan. Often, a gun catches your eye at a gun show, at a gun store, or you ordered one at the gun store because you read an article in a magazine about it.
An interesting exchange occurred in the novel “War and Remembrance” where Victor Henry is talking to his future son-in-law about his finances and the young man’s backstory is brought forward to the reader in that “he put more than a thousand dollars into records and a Capehart [a well-known luxury record player of that time], and almost as much into a collection of rifles and shotguns.” (Back then, this would be the equivalent of about 20 or so high quality rifles and shotguns as the average price for a Winchester 1894 would have been around 50 dollars in the 1940s.)Continue reading“Preparedness Primer for an Uncertain Future – Part 5, by Single Farmer”
