Listening to Michael Bane’s podcast and his eternal (sounds like that but ain’t) talk about a gun combo for travel across the nation and an article by Ken Matthews in the latest SWAT Magazine, I gave it again some thought at what I would carry that would give me the least amount of trouble with authorities, a 50-state set up if you can call it that but it is not quite accurate.

So what is the point of this kit? This will be the collection of objects that will help you make it home when you are far away and something major has happened that created or is about to create a fracture and/or collapse of social services and/or civilized behavior.

The kit has to have a sidearm, a rifle of some sorts both in calibers that are easy to find. I decided that I would make it single caliber as to eliminate one more possible problem but not losing that much in firepower.

For the long gun: A custom-made Alaskan Co-Pilot in .357 Magnum.
Not a cheap gun at all that will set you back $2,400. But the take-down part will reduce travel bulk by half, a good thing if you don’t want to advertise much. I would particularly go with small red dot and co-witnessing iron sights/ Express sights and somewhere to hook up a single-point sling. From what I have read, a good commercial/hunting .357 Magnum round coming out of a rifle will reach the 1,700 to 1,900 fps range or just short of the .30-30 caliber physics.

As for handgun, I’d go for the Smith & Wesson Model 627, 4″ barrel, 8-shot in .357 Magnum:
I am very comfortable shooting revolver and I think the 4 barrel is the best compromise for carry. Being an 8-shot gun reloadable with moon clips will make it an equal or better sidearm than a 1911. This sucker retails for $969 which brings the price of the kit sans the rest of the ancillary stuff at $3,500. (Florida Lotto…where are you?)

Both guns will shoot the .38 Special cartridge which is a nifty thing for practice or if .357 is a tad hard to find. Michael Bane loves the .44 Magnums and Specials, but I think those cartridges are a tougher finding at your local Wally World.

This set up is not the final word on the subject but it is a good set up in my opinion. I’d probably change things depending on where and how I would be traveling.

Next would be something I haven’t given much thought yet: Carrying case.

This was always my dream…. and my wife’s nightmare 🙂

From the same people who have no problems with mass incarcerations of US Citizens, we get this:

I clicked on the comments and I was somewhat shocked but not surprised at their hate and bigotry. Read some of the comments:

• Danya Anderson an army of lard
• Supratim Sanyal bet none of them will score over 80 in a IQ test.
• Kevin Coleman To much Fox ” news,” has side effects.
• Claude Isbell That poor woman, is younger than she looks. Barefoot and pregnant for years. She looks so tired. Most of the use kids, if not all, are screwed.
• Victoria Haugen Looks like they need some birth control in addition to gun control…..
• Sue Levins Rockwell Inbreeding results.
• Kay Burnett I see child endangerment, potential domestic abuse or outright Tyranny.
• Alfonso Romero What a future for the childrens. Also parents IQ 20.
• Bárbara Benerousse Spay and neuter the parents!!
• Virginia Kostmayer Wth are the protecting themselves from? Seriously they look like idiots, but hey Honey boo boo is a popular show so I think most Americans are idiots.
• Jerry Guzi Yes. Out with “In God we trust”, in with “Mama, pass me some more mac-n-cheese, or I’ll blow your @#$%# head off.”
  (God love them all.)
• Todd Lamonia Should be illegal.
• Manny Gurrola REDNECKS SUCK
• Robert Priester Buy them a bath tub.
• Francesca Tori Rossellini Ugh. I think we should put all of the gun loving, gun toting individuals on an island. I want to be as far away from them all as humanly possible.
• Tom Zilembo Take the guns away.

These are the most liberal and open-minded minds available to the world to do “good.” But their comments remind us of the Eugenicists bent on cleaning the world from those they considered inferior or dangerous.  At best they want us sent to a long eternal vacation at the old school Molokai Spa or île du Diable Resort.  No, they don’t have the testes to do it themselves, but rest assured they will have no hesitation on voting for someone who will do it…even if it means they will be next on the cattle cars.

At the time of closing this post, there were a grand total of 98 post. Only one person thought the whole line of comments was wrong.

Raquel Rocky Castillo As much as I disagree with this photo, there are too many insulting comments. I don’t think this family is on display for a free-for-all bashing. We need education all the way around to solve this nation’s problem. Oh and I grew up in the South and most people are friendly and generous regardless of how they dress or speak!

I hope she re-evaluates her companions and chooses better.

PS: If you are one of the persons mentioned above, don’t even bother trying to have your name and comment removed. You did it in a public forum, you are an adult, you have no expectation of privacy, deal with it.

An obvious typo….but imagine the fun!

Wedding party in Yemen. Color me unsurprised.

Hat tip to Dale G.

Of course, they could not stay away from it. But leave it to its followers to screw things up.

For the heck of it, I checked how much $12.78 would be in today’s economy. It came out to $96.52 or the price of another import easily available anywhere: Mosin-Nagant rifle.

We can see that MDA still engages in Reasoned Discourse by deleting posts from what they n ow call Gun Bullies and the followers have no problem engaging in name-calling either. But you have to admit that Jeffrey Wilson’s post was the best till that time.

I’ll keep an eye on them today. I am sure there will be more goodies coming.

UPDATES:

Death to “Gun Trolls.” Why are Anti Gunners so violent?

Stephanie dear, Sandy Hook, Aurora & Columbine are prime examples of Gun Free Zones, the premier victim-generating Gun Control Law of the land. But that would be too much for you to grasp.

Now you see Cesar Avalos….

I am sure Tracey saw a NatGeo show about Somalia and now she is an expert on Warlords and how they managed to massacre armed people all over Somalia….wait… they were unarmed and if not shot, they were starved to death because the Warlords and their armed followers stole the food sent at gun point and without opposition.

And I saw this posted somewhere:

President Kennedy with an evil assault weapon!

….your tactics suck.

Take this example and use it in a self-defense situation. When your life is on the line, you do not adhere to rules of fairness, you do what you need to win. The attacker was expecting a reaction, got another completely different and his mental preparedness hit a wall to which he had no immediate response. This gave his opponent enough time to counter and win…and add insult to injury.