Guns of the apocalypse

David LaPell

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Not to nail down any specific show or movie but have you noticed how nice and expensive most guns tend to be. I mean, there are high end AR' variants, MP-5's, Sig Sauer and HK handguns, top of the line combat shotguns, but where are the everyday guns? Where are the average .38 Specials, the .22 pistols and rifles, .30-30 carbines? It just seems that everyone has a gun that costs more than what I have paid for some cars, sure you see the occasional Mosin carbine or something or Glock but really most are well beyond I would expect to see.
 
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Two reasons, IMHO. First, If I'm at home when we pass through the comet's tail, I get to start out with the good stuff. Second, when I get to go through everybody's stuff, including the neighbors, the cops and the gun stores, because they're all dead, that Western Auto single shot 12 gauge is the last thing I'm grabbing . . . . :cool:
 
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Or this gem from the same movie

By you're right, these days the gun companies and movie makers want the latest and greatest in their work. I'm glad the main guy in The Walking Dead is carrying a Python and not an LCR.
 

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They had "regular" guns on the first seasons of "Walking Dead"....hunting rifles, various shotguns, issued Glocks. Over time the characters upgraded to newer and fancier.

An AR with an ACOG or EoTech gives an advantage over the guy who has a shotgun made from water pipe. Thus if one could obtain the better gun, they would use it.

Presumably there will be plenty of overweight preppers who had failed bug outs to pick over for gear.
 
Three or four years ago Shooting USA did a segment on high school trap teams. They showed one girl who shot single shot exposed hammer 12 gauge and had just shot her first 25 straight. Her average was 23 if memory serves. Her Grandpa got her started in trap and all he had was the single shot. She got a scholarship to college based on her shooting. Look down at them if you will but remember beware the man/woman who only has one gun. They probably know how to use it. ;)
 
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I know what you mean.

IMHO: I think you see the guns you see on TV because those companies PAID A TON OF MONEY to somebody so that you WOULD see, precisely, those guns.

And there's nothing, at all, more to it than that.

Again, just IMHO...
 
Shows and films about the apocalyptic future are strictly fantasy, thus the accoutrements of the participants can be as fantastical as the writers want them to be. "The Walking Dead" has progressed from a bunch of scavengers surviving to a para-military group of automatic weapons experts. If you take it too seriously, you miss the entertainment value. I will say that the full auto phenomenon of TWD was counterbalanced nicely last season when someone brandished a nice SKS with bayonet. The running gun battles with full auto ARs and AKs do get silly after a while.
 
Gun companies Paying for product placement ? I"m not really buying that.

Films are visual, and firearms ( and accesories like holsters ) are chosen for their visual impact, and are more often influenced by other movies than real life.

From what I've read the overwhelming majority of firearms used in Film and TV production are supplied by a handfull of rental firms. Occasionally a gun savy consultant or prop person might convince a producer or director to use the most realistic options from the rental company.

Rarest of all would be firearms produced specifically for a production. Standouts of that type would be the Sharps in Quigley Down Under , and Clint Eastwood's ctg conversion Colts in Pale Rider.
 
The last season they used a Mosin, a Colt chiefs special, a model 29 snub, 327 PC R8, Beretta 92, Colt 1911, Glock 19, Kimber, HK 23, Sig 226, S&W M&P, Norinco AK, Romanian AK, Colt AR, M1 Carbine, Winchester 70, Uzi, Remington 870.

Seems like a lot of common stuff.
 
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venomballistics said:
those high end mall ninja guns will be in safes.
The real guns of the apocalypse will be the tried and true workhorses we all know and love.
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Like AK, Glock, HK, AR, FAL? All tried and true workhorses that have seen just about every conflict on every continent for the last 50 years (FAL, HK, AK)?

I don't own any lever actions but if I had one in the safe next to a AR or an AK or any other semi auto rifle I would grab that over a lever action if such a apocalypse would occur. Nothing against them, they are good guns but a lot slower to use and ammo would be carried in what?
 
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Pecos Bill said:
Look down at them if you will but remember beware the man/woman who only has one gun. They probably know how to use it. ;)
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I'm with Gator and Muss pretty much too, but not necessarily grabbing the guns to upgrade. I have no plans to bug out. Everything I need to survive is local to me. So I'll just not want them lying around for someone else.

I'll be pickin for ammo.
 
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Like AK, Glock, HK, AR, FAL? All tried and true workhorses that have seen just about every conflict on every continent for the last 50 years (FAL, HK, AK)?
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The battlefield will be awash with Mosburg 500's Rem 870s, and 700's, Probably a good number of SKS's.
Think cheap, think common through the past.
The Apocalypse will be anything but the red carpet of firearms fashion.

If it held anything HK, FN FAL, or Sig ... rest assured it would be destroyed going in. wouldn't be a proper apocalypse with any military installations left standing.
 
venomballistics said:
The battlefield will be awash with Mosburg 500's Rem 870s, and 700's, Probably a good number of SKS's.
Think cheap, think common through the past.
The Apocalypse will be anything but the red carpet of firearms fashion.

If it held anything HK, FN FAL, or Sig ... rest assured it would be destroyed going in. wouldn't be a proper apocalypse with any military installations left standing.
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Well what I see most common are glocks, ARs, and AKs. Pretty common for the last decade at least. I own only one moder bolt action rifle everything else is AKs, AR, and FAL.
 
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Well what I see most common are glocks, ARs, and AKs. Pretty common for the last decade at least. I own only one moder bolt action rifle everything else is AKs, AR, and FAL.
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At present they might seem to fit the description.
Really though .. most are not gun people and the vast majority of arms in reserve are hiding in attics, basements and closets.
A few decades within a century don't mean all that much.
the Win 94 won the west .. and has a good chance of winning the apocalypse too.
It was THE gun for so long, it might still represent over half the active arsenal at go time
 
venomballistics said:
At present they might seem to fit the description.
Really though .. most are not gun people and the vast majority of arms in reserve are hiding in attics, basements and closets.
A few decades within a century don't mean all that much.
the Win 94 won the west .. and has a good chance of winning the apocalypse too.
It was THE gun for so long, it might still represent over half the active arsenal at go time
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A 92 or clone in a pistol caliber might make a decent weapon for certain circumstances. Get one in .45 Colt, 44 or .38/357 and you can stuff a lot of rounds in the mag tube. While it's not the hardest hitting gun out there it will get the job done.
 
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