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Best Survival Firearms: How to select firearms for disaster preparedness

2,835 views · Published 13 February 2011 · 12:05 · Indexed 3 October 2026

Channel: Tennessee Gun · 2011 · Howto & Style

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https://www.tngun.com/firearms-for-catastrophic-disasters/
http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Handguns-Self-Defense-David-Nash/dp/1608850250/Sheschinc-20
"The Shepherd School, and the tngun.com website were originally designed strictly for firearm training, we did it that way on purpose, because at that time, I felt it was my calling to help train citizen to be able to protect themselves and their families from predators (mostly the two legged kind).  At that time I was still working in the prison and the reality that evil exists was constantly being shown to me.  Now that I work in emergency management, I have a softened approach, and see the other side of people working together to help each other also exists.  I also find that people have the capacity to deal with hardship in either generous and positive ways or negative violent ways depending on the situation and the resources they have available.  

Prepping, and living the prepper lifestyle is now starting to become more popular, just like the old "back to the land movements", but survivalism and survivalists still carry negative connotations.  I don't understand this as they are basically the same thing.  People that take extra time to build additional resources and skills as a safety blanket or insurance policy.  This idea was recently discussed on an email group I belong to.  Basically they said that a "prepper" WAS a "survivalist without the guns".   I tend to agree with that, since to me I don't care as much WHY I'm stuck in a disaster and to the fact THAT I'm stuck in a disaster.

One thing I am adamant about in the disaster prep world is that anyone that has all guns and no food is setting themselves up for murder...  I will say that again.  Anyone that believes that a large scale disaster is possible and takes time to prepare for it, and does so solely by buying firearms and ammunition is either consciously or unconsciously stating that if the manure ever flies they are going to use their guns to take food from people without guns.  Those people are the reason people like me spend money on weapon preps.  

Personally, I love guns, but at this stage I would rather buy a $500 country living grain mill, or a $600 honey extractor than another AR-15 upper.

But that's because its our households theory to prepare in depth and balanced.  We don't have top of the line anything until we have quality everything...  Meaning, you first have to have 72 hours of gear, food, light, heat, first aid, and defense -- Get the bare basics.  Then get a month of gear -- better quality.   I'm not going to spend 4 or 5 grand on a Generation 4 night vision scope to sit on a $3000 dollar M-14 rifle if the only food I have is two cases of Ramen noodles.  However, I am not going to try to protect a year supply of freeze dried food with a whistle and a rubber slingshot either.

That being said, weapons -- especially firearms, do have a place in a prepper's lifestyle.  But these firearms need to be chosen with the same care we spend on making sure we get the best quality storage food for our money.  We have to compare quality, price, our needs, our wants, and all the added costs to get a firearm that works in our program.

To me the most important aspect of a gun is reliability.  I know that if I have to use my firearm in a emergency it's a BAD DAY, and since the statistical probability of a BAD DAY is low, I don't want to tempt Murphy with a firearm that cannot shoot 3 rounds in a row on the range without a malfunction.  Get a gun that goes bang every time with NO exceptions.  Cool guns with neat little stories or exotic ammunition is cool to show your buddies, but a disaster gun needs to be practical and reliable.

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