Sorry but your barking up the wrong tree with this. There is a reason the tyrants like Stalin and Mao win, they have an organized army to back them up. A rebellion can’t win unless there is a State power behind them providing funds and arms. Even the American Revolution was only won because France backed the US with funding, war material AND troops (kind of difficult to get my head around cheese eating surrender monkeys actually helping to win a war!).
The US is rapidly turning into a police state (mostly already has) without too much resistance and I guarantee that you won’t have too many people supporting you should you decide to “resist”. They’ll take you out so fast that it won’t even be funny and make you look like some kind of nut case after the fact. Then people will just shake their head and wonder what happened to poor so-and-so and why did he go so far off the reservation. If you can’t win this at the ballot box then you ain’t going to win it at all so give up these useless “Red Dawn” type fantasies.
“Assault rifles” (I know they really aren’t but that’s what everyone calls them now days) are fun to shoot but will make you a target of both the cops and the thugs during any period of civil unrest. Listen to that guy in Argentina who lived through their economic collapse. Your best weapon is one that no one can see so a good CCW type pistol would be much better than any semiauto rifle. The only situation that I can see where an AR-15/AK-47 would be a good idea is in a Rwanda type situation where ethnic cleansing is taking place by the “authorities”. At that point it really doesn’t matter much either way and if you can’t use it to escape at least you’ll go down in a blase of glory (beats being hacked to death with a machete).
So, your conclusion is to just take it as there is no other choice. OK. So much for you.
Me, the poster of this thread and author of this review, or Martino, the author of the book?