Page 6 RAIN October 1981 FIGURE 8: Fallout-free Areas of the United Stat~. Type A refuges have less than a 2 percent chance of receiving fallout if all primary targets are hit at ground level. Type B refuges are unlikely to receive includes gun vaults, blast-proof boxes for burying valuables, German air rifles, ammunition, radiation suits and 2,000 gallon tanks for water and fuel. A crossbow costs about $300. You can buy a gun vault, which holds about a dozen guns, for $1500, while for another $90 you can get a radiation suit. A year's supply of pre-packaged food, equal to a diet of about 2400 calories per day for one person for one year, costs from $1000 to $1500. The primary customers for self-sufficiency wares over the years have been Mormons and John Birch Society members. Sales picked up in 1976 after a Mormon conclave reaffirmed the church's longheld recommendation to store a year's supply of food in case of famine or pestilence. Recently, though, media focus on survivalism has brought in a whole new clientele: lawyers, doctors, movie stars, businessmen, law enforcement people, and members of the military (do they know something we don't?). / The Hy-Land Texaco station in Merlin, just north of Grants Pass, doubles as the home of Liberty Arms, a "survival gear" shop , that specializes in guns. They are perhaps the core of the ".hardcore" in this area, catering to Survivalists, not sportsmen. I was advised there that in procuring weapons for survival it is important to "keep up with the Joneses," only in this case "Jones" is the U.S. military. Otherwise you might have trouble obtainiµg the right ammunition. "You wouldn't want to be stuck with a 30.06." · Guns are a good investment. The better ones have doubled in price in the last year, and their resale value is high. I was advised to buy the three latest military rifles (of various gauge) and a :45 pis- 1 tol for my side. Without ammunition they'd run me about $2000. If I could afford one gun, the choice would be the new Atchisson Assault 12. The Atchisson Assault 12 is a semi-automatic rifle with a 20~shot drum magazine. It's solid and easily. maintained, and can fire 12gauge shot or slugs as fast as you can pull the trigger. Advertised as "the ultimate home defense weapon," the gun sells for about $500. The manufacturer quotes the Book of Joel (~: 10) in: the advance. deposit agreement: "Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning heoks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong." [2Ja .§c fallout other than that generated in nearby missile fields. Type C. , refuges are unlikely to receive fallout even if all domestic targets are hit ,·[: at ground level. From Life After Doomsday ' The_r;wo men;I.talked to at Liberty Arms, the .owner and a customer, claimed that candles and kerosene are a better investment than solar.' They told me Reagan is an improvement over the softy Presidents but he isn't going far enough. They described how the Communist bloc countries owe the World Ba1'k $80 billion which will cause economic collapse here when they default. And they explained how when the crunch comes (be it nuclear war, natural disaster, economic collapse, or a trucker's strike), a horde of black, "I lived in the '20s and '30s when banks went .Under and every9ne was forced to ..· . ·~ell, the problems were "very severe, and they probably wiflbe again.". Chicano I o~ Mexican fifth generation welfare types will come knocking on your door asking for a handout and will "blast your ass off" if you can't defend yourself. The owner, who after participating in a Bible !)tudy group seven years ago left a high-paying job in Los Angeles to come to Grants Pass, acknowledged that one family seemed a little small for a survival network, and s~id he was working toward a group of 5-10 survivaliS.t families, each with well-stocked retreats within walking distance of the' others. "I'd want to have at least 10 adult males"iri my group." He al5o noted that "women are going to have to learrt how to do laundry and domestic chores the way their grandmothers did, without modern co~veniences." · _ "People today don't have the morals of people 30 years·ago,." said . the customer, himself a franchiser of dehydrated survival foods.
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