I *really* need to investigate a ‘politically correct” and relatively disposable set of firearms for air travel. Travelling with a 9mm and an AR-15 draws way too much attention. Additionally, an AR is $750 and a good pistol is another $600. Thats alot to tie up if some idiot at the ticket check-in doesnt know the proper procedure for firearms check-in and airport security has seen “Die Hard II” too many times. A used .357 is $200 and a Marlin .357 is another $250. Not an unrecoverable loss.
I’m thinking Im going to pick up a nice Smith .357 and couple it with a Marlin carbine in the same caliber. I can get ammo (.38/.357) anywhere and the guns are about as non-threatening as you can get.
“Why would you need these guns when you travel, Zero?”
Personal safety, of course. Take, for example, the recent blackout on the east coast. If the power is out for a few days and I’m grounded until power is restored I dont want to have to stay up all night fearing that looters and other opportunists are going to be prowling the hallways with reckless disregard of the police who are going to be a) way to busy to care and b) probably calling in sick to take care of their own families.
The other alternative is a Ruger autopistol and a Ruger P9 carbine, a 1911 and a Marlin carbine, or a Glock and a Kel-Tec carbine. However, I’m really preferring the .357 for its ammo availability and the Marlin’s harmless looks.
In other news, I am going to have Rancho Ballistica up and running by 2005 if I have to sell a kidney and work 36 hour days to do it. A nice quiet extremely private paradise that I can live on and be left alone on. Sovreignty, thy name is property.
I’m not sure it’s politically correct, it could be with the right stocks, but an SKS is a great cheap semi-auto, almost disposably so. That coupled with the fact that 7.62×39 is exceedingly cheap and is a real rifle round as opposed to the .357.
I’ve got a Smith .357 model 19 with a 4″ barrel that I’m getting interested in getting rid of. It’s finished in flat black and has Pachmayr Gripper grips. It doesn’t qualify as “nice” but it would qualify as cheap.
SKS
I was thinking the same thing.
That, or an el cheapo double barrel 12-gauge, minimum Fed length, with an interesting assortment of shells for all occasions, and a bandolier.
Seriously, did the folks at the airport really care that you had guns? They didn’t in Jax.
Remember the guys with all the hunting shit? The airports deal with that stuff all day long, every day.
Pretty much what I was thinking.
An SKS can be had for $150 at a gun show, and most of ’em even rattle when shaken.
I could use a kidney, maybe (always wanted 3 of those…y’know, status symbol)…but I’ll have to sell a liver (I must have extras, considering the way chemicals
don’taffect me, right?) and work some of those 36 hour days to do it…Should we do the expensive hospital thing, or have Eric, John, and Mike come over for some Live Organ Transplants(tm)?