Get a good old Mosin-Nagant with bayonet it covers all your options.
-Cheap rifle.
-Soviet era: A Commie rifle used to killing Fascists.
-Cheap ammo.
-Easy shooter and accurate.
-Cheap ammo.
-Get one of the Finnish ones and you are set with a Commie gun used to killing Commies *and* Fascists!
-Cheap ammo.
-Bayonet – Run out of ammo and you can charge the taxes with it and skewer them by the dozen.
-Cheap ammo.
-Spares your handgun from being over-used.
-Did I mention cheap ammo?
-Sturdy construction: if a Soviet peasant could take care of it, you sure as hell can.
-Cheap ammo.
-And if you learn to love cleaning off cosmoline, you can help your friends clean one up too.
-Cheap ammo.
-Lots of after-market parts around, and you will never worry about spares because they were made in the millions.
-Get the ammo in the 440 tin: buy in bulk.
Remember, whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword never met up with a Thompson SMG… they don’t call it ‘The Chicago Typewriter’ for nothing, you know.
