Thoughts on homegrown militia?

[Tibbs735]

Having a core group of preppers, whether your neighbours that you have woken up to the state of things before the time comes, or others that have bugged out to your house (If agreed to use as a group retreat of course) could serve as a foundation for a militia.

If the situation truly requires a militia, then the current law is never coming back. If you could get some of the local country goods gun store owners on board (assuming you live in a rural town with a small population), you could distribute shotguns (sawn offs?) and rifles among a militia. The first 90 days would be the worst; you would want to be able to focus on security for that period of time.

To start a militia, I would begin by meeting with neighbours to discuss emergency preps, the kind the government and red cross advises. Nothing controversial, just some basic stuff so that the authorities could focus on helping those who need it (elderly, those on kidney dialysis machines etc.) From then, I would move out concentrically, so all areas would be expanded slowly as they became survivalist-minded (food storage, water, medical and comms.)

For a militia, I would start out with passive security, think burglar alarms, gravel drives, secure fences and thorny benches. Maybe some self defense training. From then, it would be community watch, explaining that in harsh times we would be on our own, so we would do well to have some security team members to guard against the inevitable crime increase following a big disaster, as well as the threat of rural crime around now.

By now, I would hope that most would have applied for shotgun and firearms certificates, for pump actions and maybe Lee Enfields (Mad minute anyone?)

I also have some pdf's by the late philip luty which detail building a reliable homemade smg from off the shelf parts, as well as magazines. He also explains expedient ammo production. This would be something to build now in separate parts, and cache, assembling only after something has happened to avoid trouble with the law.