Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

,Rawles has an interesting link to this article about a cop who was killed for his gun collection.

In a place like Chicago, where not everyone (legally) has a gun (or guns), the notion of a fella having a safe with a dozen guns might seem like a golden opportunity to equip your gang of inner-city urban mutants. Here in Montana a fella with a gun safe with a dozen guns in it is regarded with the same compassion and pity reserved for someone who has to eat government cheese and live off of food stamps. A dozen guns is cause for a raffle to help the poor slob catch up to the average which, according to zealot and gun rights activist Gary Marbut, is 26 firearms for the average Montanan.

There are, of course, a few individuals who are a bit above the average and they carry those poor deficient souls that only have 25.

I do a little buying and selling of guns at the shop and while I may tell the missus who bought what, I never, ever, share information like that with customers. They may say “Hey, my buddy Joe was telling me he got a rifle from you the other day” and my usual response is something along the lines of “Sorry, I can’t say who bought what”. I also dont talk about what my friends own, at least in terms of quantity. I may say “My buddy has an FAL” but I never say “My buddy has seven FALs”. In that regard, guns are like that secret, weird, out-of-the-mainstream porn that you like…you collect it, you sometimes trade it amongst people with similar interests, but you never let it get known in public that you have it or are interested in it. (Where am I getting this analogy from? I worked a couple years in an adult bookstore and saw some folks whom you would never suspect have some rather unusual interests. Plus…I have the internet.)

Probably one of the best responses I’ve heard to the “How many guns do you have?” question is “More than Sarah Brady (or Hillary Clinton) and less than Ted Nugent”. I’m rather pleased with what we own, and while we have a few close friends that know, with a small degree of accuracy, what we have we never tell outsiders or casual acquaintances/coworkers a number.

This article is also a good example of the need to spread your eggs outta that one basket. If everything that guy owned was in that one safe, and thebad guy had gotten to it, the family of the victim woulda been outta luck.
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Headshots are in the news. Just how hard is it for the inexperienced/casual shooter/FPS-gamer to make a headshot anyway? Lets find out using zombies as test targets:

Shoulder weapons (long guns) seem to offer a much better advantage to the novice or casual shooter. Tradeoff was speed. Something to think about.