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THE FOREVER GUN BOOK

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Note: I’ll be posting this as I did other, older books.  A few chapters at a time rather than continuously.  I don’t want too many minions to get bored and wander away and forget to come back. 

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THE FOREVER GUN BOOK

INTRODUCTION

“The Forever Gun” is a concept whose origin is lost in time.  I’m not sure if I coined the phrase or a minion did.  Or if I saw it elsewhere and forgot about it, my subconscious attempting to take credit.  It isn’t rocket science, regardless.  Smokeless powder is such a superior form of firearm, and firearms themselves such a superior weapon compared to others, that the longer you can retain use of that weapon system the better off you will be.  Originally, an ideal Forever Gun was a rimfire rifle ( with, ideally, an accompanying pistol ) with ten thousand rounds of ammunition.  At the time I purchased mine I spent $99 for the rifle and $175 in ammunition for a grand total of $300 ( with the added federal purchase license or background check or whatever they call it ) give or take.  This was not a mystical time lost in antiquity ( where ice cream cones and candy bars of enormous proportions were a nickel and movies cost a quarter ) but rather in the last ten years just prior to the housing bubble bursting.

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A rimfire is of course far from an adequate survival rifle and was not chosen for its stopping power or compactness or lack of recoil or anything else.  It was, simply, chosen for its insanely low price.  For barely more than one weeks minimum wage, you could be relatively sure of being armed the rest of your life with a smokeless powder weapon.  It was the suckiest of all weapons-true.  A rimfire might be wicked good at eventually killing everyone shot by one in the absence of modern medical care and antibiotics, but it wasn’t very good at distracting your enemy enough so that he didn’t shoot back at you.  However, and this was a BIG “however”, if all your enemies were armed with bows and arrows or smoothbore muskets with abysmal accuracy, the rimfire would start to have a lot going for it.

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Now, before your little pea brain starts churning and pumping out a hundred and one better “forever guns”, let me just stop you right there.  I am NOT in the business of pimping out hideously expensive survival solutions.  My business always has been and always will be Frugal Survivalism.  Tappon and Clayton and Ruff and Rawles are all busy compiling lists of The Very, Very Bestest And Mostest Super Deluxe Survival Gear.  I simply will not in my wildest dreams believe that more than 1-10% of potential preppers can afford such recommendations ( and, no, Virginia, the average wage earner taking thirty years to compile the necessities is no longer feasible.  Things are bad out there, you CANNOT time the collapse, just because one thing happened in the past doesn’t mean it can happen again, and for the love of God, 99% of all conventional prepping advice is for the benefit of the companies selling the devices, not the consumers themselves ).

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Wait, you say, a #10 can of freeze dried testicles will last thirty years.  A big bad mighty and righteous AR-15 will smite all my enemies.  Spending the most is getting the best and that helps me survive and I am worth it.  Maybe so, Junior.  But ponder this.  I am completely and totally in love with myself, and I have no problem believing that frugal preps are sufficient to keep me alive.  Your thirty year shelf live freeze dried food cannot compare to my three HUNDRED year shelf life wheat kernel and the cost of my food is much lower.  It is probably more nutritious.  And my old beat up war surplus bolt action will be going long after your AR has one of its Space Age plastic/specialty metal parts break.  Not to mention mine will not run out of ammunition as fast.  Your defense against a Frugal Stockpile is, “I’m worth the extra” and “the one with the most savings at the Apocalypse does not win”.  To which I reply, “You have Very Little of the Very Best.  I have a Lot More Of Better Than Nothing Equipment”.  Want to bet who lives longer-the one with six months of balanced nutritional meals or the six years of adequate calories?

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Everything you do in survival preparations must be within your budget.  And I’ll be frank-a Forever Gun is most likely no longer within many of your financial means.  I present the concept as a good idea and an interesting one.  If you can afford it, all the better.  But many cannot, even at my bare bones recommendations.  What I will NOT recommend is the Top Tier choices, as the average survivalist is going to have enough issues affording the least costly as it is.  Nothing chaps my ass rougher than all these gun mags drooling themselves to dehydration over impossibly expensive equipment.  $2k pistols and $900 scopes.  When 9 out of 10 periodicals do this review after review, issue after issue, is it any wonder I’ve ceased subscribing to most of them?  And I can afford it-hell, it’s a business expense.  But they can take their less than balanced never unbiased always toadying up views, roll them into a small tube, and stick it where the sun don’t shine.  I will NOT be THAT guy.  Most of us are poor, many more of us are getting that way, and soon all of us will be gazing about in uncomprehending befuddlement at the smoldering ashes of this economy.  Affordable and frugal gear MATTERS.  We need to do more with less and quickly.  Engaging in a circle jerk of fantasy wish fulfillment over dream arsenals is counter-productive.  And intellectually lazy.

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