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I have a T-shirt that says that.
Your gear is pretty much your vehicle for getting the job of soldiering accomplished. Your gear is pretty much structured around the support, supply, maintenance and deployment of your main weapon and you as the soldier. This means that you must now determine what kind of weapon you will carry. Yes there is a big difference. It depends on the kind of fight that you as an American Patriot Fighter wishes to bring to our enemies, foreign and domestic. Do you want to live long enough to make a difference or do you want to do the Rambo thing? We will need the Rambo's and the Patrick Henry's and the Gen. George Washington's.
The smart idea for most is to not only train for close in raids, ambushes and close quarters combat, but most Militia fighters will need to master the skills that snipers use. The reason for this is that you will be out numbered and out gunned if you are up against a large organized police agency or military force foreign and especially domestic.
As far as choice of weapons, any gun at all is better than nothing, but if you're going to invest in a weapon don't go any cheaper than an AK-47. You get what you pay for. This weapon is intended to defend yourself and more importantly, our Constitution. Do I sound mean?
I mention an AK-47 as the cheapest weapon because it is the least expensive rifle that will serve you well. At a cost of no more than $600 post-ban and $850 pre-ban the AK-47 is my personal favorite for durability, dependability, and the bad-ass menacing Rambo look it has. This rifle is made with loose tolerances and can take a lot of dirt build-up before it even thinks about jamming. It works great with my favorite South African 7.62 X 39 ammo or even the crappy stuff that Russia or Romania sends to us Yankies, that contains up to 50% black powder and anything else they think is amusing to throw in there. Post ban is just fine, as long as it works.
Norinco brand from China are usually good rifles but when the assault rifle ban came around, these good rifles were in mid production and hastily thrown together with politically correct non-Rambo parts and were shipped to the USA without inspection. Many of these won't work until your gunsmith tunes it up. A friend of mine took his back to the dealer and traded up to a Romanian version that had a better thumbhole stock pistol grip, positioned so you can actually reach the trigger. It also had a side-rail mount for a Commie scope. The only thing I would miss if my rifle were post-ban instead of pre-ban, would be the removable muzzle compensator because I wouldn't be able to screw on a Blank Firing Adapter for training. You don't need the bayonette if your rifle is post-ban and you didn't get one. The 5 round magazine that comes with it should be filled with soft point hunting rounds and kept in a compas/first aid pouch in case you see platoon food on the hoof. You will need seven 30 round magazines. If you live in a Communist city like Denver, New York, L.A. or D.C. keep 30 rounders in a secure hiding place or out of the oppressive jurisdiction. In some cases like Denver, even the rifle is a no no. Out to 300 yards AK-47's have deadly knockdown power and don't leave many survivors.
The big problem with an AK-47 is range. AK's are only good to 400 yards. After that they arc like softballs. This rifle however will fire after being dug up out of the Viet Nam jungle, with a big hole rotted through the receiver and the mud knocked out of the bore.
The AR-15 variants, Colt, Armalite, DPMS and Bushmaster are very fine weapons, very accurate out to 1,000 yards, lightweight, easy and fun to shoot, ammo is very light for the same 210 rounds for the AK and many optics and scopes will fit perfectly. The .223 round that it spits out can blow around in a heavy wind a little and lacks the knockdown power of .30 caliber rounds.
Is less knockdown power a bad thing? No, not neccesarily. If you wound an enemy soldier, two or three of his buddies have to pick his sorry ass up and carry him back to a medical facility or a vehicle that will take him there. That takes three or four enemy out of commission for a while. If you killed the guy, his buddies would just use his carcass for cover and then come after you with a vengeance. Also a fine weapon like this with very tight tolerances needs to be babied and cleaned all the time. Not just when you return to base from the field. If you don't keep this weapon clean it will let you down when you need it most. As difficult as it is, you must clean out the gas tube when not too close to combat action!
If you can only buy one rifle, go universal. Go semi-auto .308! M-14, FAL, HK-91, AK .308, AR-10, etc.
Bolt action rifles for a sniper backed up by a spotter with a semi-auto rifle, could be a Remington 700, or any other decent brand of rifles with a free-floated, bull barrel and a good tactical scope. Depending on what rifle you get in this awesome caliber, you can accurately reach out from up close and personal to 1,300 yards. .308 is a very deadly round and spares no quarter, even at a distance. The ammo is very heavy but you should be able to get away with carrying only 90-100 rounds (three 30 rounders or five 20 rounders) if you are using good sniper tactics. If for some reason you want to just wound an enemy, this weapon should be accurate enough to hit an extremity, leaving a screaming pain in the ass for other enemy troops to deal with.
There are other good foreign calibers comparable to .308: Russian 7.62 X 54, .303 British and 8 mm Mauser are not uncommon.
Basically, weapons are tools and they have different specific uses. I will refer to caliber, because the bullet is what will put down the enemy:
My advise is to start with .308 and collect the others later. Do you know what this means? It means you must now join a good rifle club that has a range that goes out to 1,000 yards. Start competing and learn accuracy from all those Viet Nam Vets that still love to shoot. They will be happy to help. Study sniper books. My favorite is "The Ultimate Sniper" for learning field craft and gear tips. Keep the Militia thing under your hat. Where do you think a lot of cops and feds go to maintain their skills?
I think the best all around brand of bulk military ammo is South African. This stuff flies strait and is match grade Military ammo. I have used South African .223, 7.62 X 39, 9 mm, .40 S&W, .45 ACP, and .308 and was pleased to see hardly any sign of firing when I look down the bore after blowing hundreds of rounds through my babies. The worst ammo is anything from Russia or Romania. The Russians, Checks, Romanians, Egyptians and Chinese make fine AK's but they send all of their crappy ammo to us, their new capitalist brothers. You see, in many eastern block or Communist countries, they don't have any kind of agency to answer to for safe ammunition loading standards like the USA and Western Europe does. I'm still not sure if my favorite South African ammo is Commie or not, but it seems better to me than even the Lake City that the US Military uses. If you are a true bolt action sniper, learn to reload your own ammo.
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