GatorFarmer
Member
Zombies = a metaphor, mostly, for "disaster"/SHTF/etc.
It's much easier for some people to wrap their heads around an AR15 as a "zombie gun" than as the "have to shoot my hungry neighbors when they smell my beef stew cooking and come with sharp pointy sticks to take it".
See Zombie Squad/et al for further development of this theme. There's a heavy user base of active duty military there.
It's also a handy way to depersonalize potential adversaries without having to resort to potentially embarassing ethnic references - the long time gold standard for such : Kraut, Jap, Limey, etc.
Pretty common knowledge in the wider firearms community really. The usefulness of the metaphor is furthered by video games, films etc.
It actually has an old history on this very forum, going back long before the current ongoing "Zombie Karma", all the way back to circa summer 2004 when there was a long running and popular thread that first discussed the Smith and Wesson revolvers used in the Dawn of the Dead remake (Model 13, Model 28 - both 4" - and a Model 66 snub IIRC) which morphed into a discussion of Andy the Gunshop owner, SHTF strategies, and someone's comment that a family member who owned a gunshop now stocked MREs so as not to end up like Andy.
Every major, and many not so major, zombie game, film or book since has been discussed or mentioned at least in passing.
(Make sure to buy this one: http://www.lulu.com/content/1344064 )
It's much easier for some people to wrap their heads around an AR15 as a "zombie gun" than as the "have to shoot my hungry neighbors when they smell my beef stew cooking and come with sharp pointy sticks to take it".
See Zombie Squad/et al for further development of this theme. There's a heavy user base of active duty military there.
It's also a handy way to depersonalize potential adversaries without having to resort to potentially embarassing ethnic references - the long time gold standard for such : Kraut, Jap, Limey, etc.
Pretty common knowledge in the wider firearms community really. The usefulness of the metaphor is furthered by video games, films etc.
It actually has an old history on this very forum, going back long before the current ongoing "Zombie Karma", all the way back to circa summer 2004 when there was a long running and popular thread that first discussed the Smith and Wesson revolvers used in the Dawn of the Dead remake (Model 13, Model 28 - both 4" - and a Model 66 snub IIRC) which morphed into a discussion of Andy the Gunshop owner, SHTF strategies, and someone's comment that a family member who owned a gunshop now stocked MREs so as not to end up like Andy.
Every major, and many not so major, zombie game, film or book since has been discussed or mentioned at least in passing.
(Make sure to buy this one: http://www.lulu.com/content/1344064 )
