How many bullets?
According to the ATF,* by the end of 1996 approximately 242 million firearms were available for sale to or were possessed by civilians in the United States(27). That total includes roughly 72 million handguns (mostly pistols, revolvers, and derringers), 76 million rifles, and 64 million shotguns(28). By 2000, the number of firearms had increased to approximately 259 million: 92 million handguns, 92 million rifles, and 75 million shotguns(29). By 2007, the number of firearms had increased to approximately 294 million: 106 million handguns, 105 million rifles, and 83 million shotguns(30)….
By … 2009, the estimated total number of firearms available to civilians in the United States had increased to approximately 310 million: 114 million handguns, 110 million rifles, and 86 million shotguns(36). Per capita, the civilian gun stock has roughly doubled since 1968, from one gun per every two persons to one gun per person…
Per capita, the civilian gun stock has roughly doubled since 1968, from one gun per every two persons to one gun per person…
Uh huh, but the vast majority of gun owners own several or more, up to collections of hundreds.
One gun per person exists in the country but fewer people own guns than don’t. And as far as how many; as long as you have more bullets than your neighbor you’ll last longer than him.
By the time enough people have died off that everyone left has a gun, everyone living off the land isn’t an absurd idea anymore
In a world without electricity, bullets will be the currency, not bitcoin
And quite frankly, when your place is raided by a mob, an ar15 is rather "short", it's only a semi auto, with a limited capacity
To your edit:
Yes, taking your munitions and joining a community of people with munitions would eventually become necessary to survive, no one alone has enough bullets to defend themselves from the entire nearby city
… that’s what I’ve been saying?
No one is going to spend every dollar they make on bullets. If you have more bullets than the majority of people in your area, have fun gambling on crypto in the meantime because if shtf you’ll be among the ‘wealthiest.’ The majority of what you can spend your money on is going to be useless if society falls that far anyway, so it makes no sense to say that anyone shouldn’t buy crypto because eventually we might be living like mad max
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