The writing of the founding documents never addresses hunting, it’s written from the point of fear that the government would become too powerful and that we the people should overthrow it and install new government if it were to become too powerful. They wanted the real power within each state, not the federal government. Over the last 200-years power has shifted away from the states to the federal government. Giving us this all powerful hammer that will pound you into the ground at a moments notice.

Hunting with a gun was not an issue to them at all. Fear of governments power over it’s people was. As it was with the King of England. And actually you could say the King of America as they were all English subjects up to the time of the revolution. They were very much concerned that the new government they were creating not become tyrannical like King George was.


From a survival point of view I don’t know that an assault rifle is needed. But we should be able to have one if a person wanted to.


For survival I think a bolt action or a combo gun (like a Savage24) is a good choice. I don’t know that I buy into the idea that Hollywood puts into movies that people will be running around shooting everyone in site (Mad Max type of movie.)

That may happen some in big cities, but I think in small towns will pull together and work to have as normal a life as they can under the given conditions. And a Bolt action rifle fits into that well to provide food from hunting.