How many is a cache?
A reporter from Harper’s is asking arfcom about caching weapons for long term storage. If it’s time to bury them, then it is time to use them.
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August 19th, 2010 at 9:02 am
That is one classic thread – and since they got an Instalanche yesterday, still growing. Like the man sez, “read the whole thing”.
August 19th, 2010 at 9:29 am
COPY that! One might consider burying ONE weapon with some ammo and provisions in case thier others were perhaps”liberated”from them, but as for burying everything to retain possession? what are you gonna do after they are all gone, you gonna dig them up and faudle them nightly? If you loose the right, then the gun itself is no longer vaiable. I agree if its time to bury them then its time to use them.
August 19th, 2010 at 9:39 am
Okay, that’s all about teh win.
I love it when they check his writings and post some of his idiocies.
It looks to me as if he was looking for crazies and figured they were stupid too.
Tool.
August 19th, 2010 at 10:08 am
Keep 1 or 2 to use, and bury the rest (in more than one location) as backups.
Or, as someone once said, “How many weapons you plan on bringing? You only got the two arms.”
August 19th, 2010 at 10:26 am
If it’s time to use them, it would probably be a good thing to have a spare firing pin or bolt assembly handy, tucked out of the way.
If it’s time to use them, wal-mart will probably be out of ammo too.
August 19th, 2010 at 11:00 am
I love the message where he is complaining about the rude comments he is getting. For God’s sake, it was the General Forum of arfcom! What in the hell did he expect?
August 19th, 2010 at 11:54 am
So would the spare weapons and ammo I keep in the safe at my Parent’s farm way back in the hills be considered a “cache”?
August 19th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
Actually, burying guns has been proven to be a wise tactic. The IRA did it. The Iraqis did it. The Allies did it in WW2 (especially the French resistance).
In Afghanistan, insurgents pull weapons from a cache, attack an American unit, killing one or two, and throw the weapons down before they are caught. Then they blend into the crowd and disappear. They move to the next cache, rinse, lather, repeat.
August 19th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Actually, John, that’s probably why he posted there. He’s not really interested in caching.
August 20th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Of course you’re not gonna bury them ALL.
But in these days, when cops come-a-knocking in your door without reason (other than busybody-neighbor, “too-many-guns” reports) and subsequently decide they’d like to ‘confiscate’ some of the really nice guns you own (after cutting into your safe, citing ‘exigent circumstances’), tucking a few firearms away off-premises seems like a better and better idea all the time.
Plus, in the event of a fishing expedition in your home, do you really want the cops to see those 100 neatly-stacked cans of ammo, crates of food, and jugs of water? This could apply to a burglar too, who’s more likely to look for guns & ammunition in the house, rather than out in the back forty, hidden under the rusty haymow.
And, I’m thinking, ‘cache’ doesn’t have to mean ‘buried’, or even difficult to access.