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Are Guns and Ammo the New Gold and Silver?
SHTFPLAN>COM ^ | 12/21/2011 | Mac Slavo

Posted on 12/22/2011 9:55:45 AM PST by JohnKinAK

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To: ctdonath2

Whoohoo!
I’m rich I tells ya!


41 posted on 12/22/2011 10:45:58 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

If you use a roll per day, you have bigger problems than the collapse of society.


42 posted on 12/22/2011 10:46:27 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Paladin2

and a “smooth” stone instead of paper.


43 posted on 12/22/2011 10:50:36 AM PST by Renegade
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To: JohnKinAK

We really don’t know how a collapse would turn out. It is true that ammo would certainly be more valuble as society breaks down. The use of ammo for hunting and protection from increased criminal activity appear to be rational reasons to stockpile.
However, stockpiling ammo by individuals to defend against a government hell bent on attacking its own citizens would not be effective unless there is also an organized structure that could unite resisting citizens. Otherwise, the government could pick us off one by one and we will have a series of Wacos and Idahos.


44 posted on 12/22/2011 10:52:16 AM PST by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est; zero sera dans l'enfer bientot.)
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To: JohnKinAK
Shortly before Y2K a woman was carrying the extra $150 worth of groceries she had purchased into her house as emergency supplies.

She ask her next door neighbor how much he had spent to prepare in case there was an emergency.

He said "$4.50 for a box of shotgun shells". She told him "you can't eat shotgun shells !".

His reply " If worse comes to worst I will shoot you with the shells and eat your food, if nothing happens I'll use them to shoot Skeet".

45 posted on 12/22/2011 10:52:48 AM PST by TYVets (Pure-Gas.org ..... ethanol free gasoline by state and city)
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To: Free Vulcan
If you have gold and silver, but no way to keep someone from taking it from you, that gold and silver isn't going to do you much good.

Once they find out you have gold and silver but don't have the means to keep it, they will take it from you.

People are also going to find out what they now consider a huge amount of gold and silver, really wont buy that much because the necessities of life will be inflated.

When your out of gold and silver then what do you do?

I'm with you.

You have the guns and ammo people will pay you gold and silver for it.

46 posted on 12/22/2011 10:54:47 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: SJSAMPLE

OUTSTANDING! You make ME look lightweight. LOL


47 posted on 12/22/2011 10:55:39 AM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~.. Newt/Palin-West-2012."got a lot swirling around in my head.")
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To: TYVets

“Shortly before Y2K a woman was carrying the extra $150 worth of groceries she had purchased into her house as emergency supplies.

She ask her next door neighbor how much he had spent to prepare in case there was an emergency.

He said “$4.50 for a box of shotgun shells”. She told him “you can’t eat shotgun shells !”.

His reply “ If worse comes to worst I will shoot you with the shells and eat your food, if nothing happens I’ll use them to shoot Skeet”.”

If someone threatened me like that I might shoot them on the spot.


48 posted on 12/22/2011 10:56:01 AM PST by FightThePower! (Fight the powers that be!)
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To: Paladin2
I always wonder why people never think to put a few quality knives on their survival/barter SHTF list.

You would be surprised how few really have any quality knives.

49 posted on 12/22/2011 11:08:27 AM PST by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Brass and copper, too


50 posted on 12/22/2011 11:10:35 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: FightThePower!
If someone threatened me like that I might shoot them on the spot.

The neighbor woman was anti-gun that much was true.

The guy told the story as a joke. I don't think that conversation ever took place.

But starving people, who knows what they might do.

51 posted on 12/22/2011 11:11:25 AM PST by TYVets (Pure-Gas.org ..... ethanol free gasoline by state and city)
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To: SJSAMPLE
>>That’s on top of 8,000 rnds and 2,000 rnds of factory ammo.<<

Ya ought not reveal what’cha got, ol uncle sugar loves to monitor sites to get a pulse of the pop.

Keep your cards close to your vest.

URL’s can be tracked.

52 posted on 12/22/2011 11:11:28 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: danielmryan

>>In a SHTF situation, the government will clamp down severely using powers of the Patriot Act, FEMA, the National Guard, and executive orders from the President.

Which is why every little police department in east Podunk is being armed to the teeth with automatic weapons, body armour and even armored personnel carriers and such...it will all be used against the american people, not the islamic terrorists.


53 posted on 12/22/2011 11:13:34 AM PST by qwerty1234
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To: ctdonath2

I think the other side if that is a good handgun is worth nothing if it’s locked in a safe and you need it


54 posted on 12/22/2011 11:13:44 AM PST by muir_redwoods (No wonder this administration favors abortion; everything they have done is an abortion)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Don’t forget brass!


55 posted on 12/22/2011 11:17:53 AM PST by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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To: muir_redwoods

Well, that’s quite a different issue. If you need it, a good handgun is worth everything you own and ever will.


56 posted on 12/22/2011 11:25:38 AM PST by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
I tell my wife all the time when expending cash on ammo and boom sticks; They are assets. Usable assets that can be converted back to cash at any time...

Careful. Your wife can use this same logic to justify buying jewelry.

57 posted on 12/22/2011 11:39:36 AM PST by Nachoman (I HOPE we CHANGE presidents.)
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To: FightThePower!
If someone threatened me like that I might shoot them on the spot.

That reminds me of the time a friend got into an argument over the phone with an employer who got so angry he said he was coming over with his 357 magnum. My friend said fine, he has a .22 rifle and will take him out before he gets within a block of his house.

58 posted on 12/22/2011 11:46:18 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati)
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To: JohnKinAK
Duh.

Guns and Ammo are in the BASE asset class along with Food and Water.

59 posted on 12/22/2011 11:59:21 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Nachoman
Careful. Your wife can use this same logic to justify buying jewelry.

Nahhhh. Her family used to own a jewelry store so she has plenty. Besides, she'd rather have me buy her a box of .380 ACP Talons than a crappy tennis bracelet any day.

60 posted on 12/22/2011 12:06:14 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Attacking Wall Street because you're jobless is like burning down Whole Foods because you're hungry.)
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