(04-19-2023, 11:04 AM)OmegaLogos Wrote: Personal Disclosure: I think and feel if one is faced by mobs of rioting people then yes fully automatic seems to be the logical answer and way to go to defend oneself.
The other choice is to be possibly overwhelmed and killed.
Full auto can certainly work in such a scenario. It's one of the few times full auto can actually be handy rather than just fun and wasteful. In Columbia, many many moons ago, when we were down there screwing around with the Columbian Cartels, I had a friend that had set an M-60 LMG up at the dirt berm of a field fortification. The Cartels had convinced just a whole damned pack of campesinos to assault that position... but they discovered pretty quickly they had made a mistake. There must have been around 300 of them in a human wave attack, but there's nothing quite like a couple of belts of 7.62 through a trusty M-60 to assist folks in reconsidering the error of their ways. It doesn't take all that many bodies stacking up for the rest to decide they hear their mothers calling for them. To be fair to them, they were not soldiers or sicarios, just local coca farmers that the Cartels had whipped into a frenzy. Then again, these mobs that are taking over the US are of about that same caliber.
But, full auto firearms are really not all that common in US civilian hands, are VERY expensive, and owners of them usually get them as an investment, meaning they are loathe to see them confiscated in a police investigation.
That leaves us with semi-auto arms to work with here. Working in that scenario with semi-auto, I think the best thing to do is get into a doorway where you are protected on 3 sides and overhead, where they can only come at you one at a time, and just start acting like it's a carnival shooting gallery. Knock one duck down at a time. As mentioned above, you don't really have to knock many of them down before the rest decide it's time to grab their ball and glove and go the hell home for supper.
Really, I'm convinced that is the main reason they are trying to outlaw all semi-auto firearms here. It's not "for the children", it's to protect their pet criminals from us mean old not-victims. They'd much prefer we don't decline or contest our victimhood, and yet some of us stubbornly insist on doing exactly that.
Carrying extra magazines, of as high a capacity as you can get, is always a good idea. You know - just in case the attackers are as hard-headed as you are...
ETA: Antifa types have taken to using explosives and fireworks in their "peaceful protests". You treat those just as you would a hand grenade - if they don't land at your feet, you just ignore them and keep on keeping on. If they DO land at your feet, you just kick them back into the mob they came out of, and turn those asswipes into a great pile of panic when they try to get away from the impending explosion. They are often too tightly packed together to make good their escape. Hilarity will ensue. There's just something very satisfying about turning their own weapons against them and creating an unexpected "oh shit!" moment for them... who doesn't love surprises?
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