Do You Know Where Your Armories Are?

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Rasputin14
Rasputin14
1 month ago

Somebody needs to open a Claymore workshop.

Rick1234
Rick1234
1 month ago
Reply to  Rasputin14

There are YT videos by the gross count showing quite literally every thing you need to know. These videos I largely avoid. I prefer the dotmil field guides in original form.

Rick1234
Rick1234
1 month ago

Oh that’s just great. Now everyone and his brother will be online searching for, What is an armory? Online forums will discuss, I didn’t even know we had armarys. (sp intentional)
In my small corner over here I know the location of three NG armories. Two I have known for 20+ yrs, one for 47 yrs. Two of which I know key personnel. More importantly, they know me.

mike fink
mike fink
1 month ago
Reply to  Rick1234

If they don’t already know about them, they are not likely to kick off an insurgency or build effective IED’s, flying or otherwise with captured HE ammunition. That is not to say that armories might not be targeted, they will be. In recent decades armories have been raided by Weather Underground operatives, IRA sympathizers, criminals, and insiders of undetermined intent, and that was just in my old home state.
Breaching an armory arms room and getting away with anything is about the same level of difficulty as hitting a bank vault. They are alarmed to the local police, and these days probably have a video feed too. The M-16 rifles used to be stored in locked racks, sometimes without bolt carrier groups installed. The heavy weapons including mortars were always stored without firing pins. This was extra hassle for the drilling unit, but is also a problem for the weapons looter who assumes he will be stealing fully functional weapons and a mountain of ammunition all in one convenient spot.

mike fink
mike fink
1 month ago

Live ammo and explosives were never stored in ARNG armories, USAR, USMCR, drill facilities in my day. There is always a state or regional military base, either active or reserve, that was large enough to have outdoor training areas, ranges, an indirect fire impact area, and a bunkered ammo supply point. Reserve component units have an arms room where weapons are stored, but the drilling unit needed to travel to the nearest base with their weapons and draw ammo in order to train. Live ammo is completely consumed and accounted for or the unspent ammo is turned back in at the ammo supply point and signed off by the battalion S-4.
That model may break down elsewhere in the country to some extent or another, but seemed to be the rule in the eastern US.

thexrayboy
thexrayboy
1 month ago

Home made “C4” will become widespread. It’s not that difficult to make. What’s harder is the detonator/blasting cap.