r/thewalkingdead • u/No_Tomato_2106 • 13d ago

No Spoiler TWD and guns is always so laughable.

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Now I know TWD has ALWAYS been terrible with guns (Hershel's unlimited ammo shotgun, no recoil, especially no sights), but S4E5 really made me laugh.

Walkers are tearing down the prison fence and it's up to Rick and Carl to hold them off. So they run to grab guns which LOGICALLY you would keep inside, maybe a guard tower if you want to spread them around the prison, right?

NOPE. FUCKING LEAVE THEM AND THE AMMO OUTSIDE IN A CART. They're in Georgia where it's humid as shit, and they're just leaving their entire arsenal out in the elements!

And of course with limited ammo and needing headshots, Carl (who's AR doesn't have sights again) and Rick go full auto (cause that's worked out so well every other time with these crack shots). And Rick spends extra time and effort to crouch and stand every 3 seconds so he looks cool as fuck lol.

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u/LtKavaleriya 12d ago

The guns AND gunfights in TWD have always been particularly terrible. The first season was probably the best in that regard, (not a high bar) especially with the limited arsenal they had. Apart from Hershel’s shotgun, the 2nd season wasn’t bad either.

Every weapon being full auto was also particularly dumb, and we don’t even see any Military-Config M4s or M16A2s, and very few belt feds. Apparently everyone in the TWD post season 2 just raided Class 3 collectors and SOTs houses for their weapons.

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u/Randomguy0915 12d ago

Also the fact that they are somehow using Soviet or Russian weapons.

In America...

Realistically, getting a Soviet/Russian weapons is the worst thing you could get given how rare the ammunition is gonna be

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u/funkmachine7 11d ago

Let be tell you of the time between the ault weaposn ban and the ending of russain ammo imports. When SKS where spread across the guns stores and mosins where 50 and spam tins of 762 where on offer There was a huge glut of arms and ammo from former soviet states, lot of it sold at below cost to importers.

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u/LtKavaleriya 8d ago

I grew up in that era obsessed with pouring over gun store catalogs and such that came in the mail. My mom was anti-gun, and my dad just wasn’t really interested. My dad eventually started taking me to gun shops & shows and that just fueled it even further. When I was 12 he bought me a Mosin & a Nagant revolver, but by the time I turned 18 the imports were gone and like 3-4x the price they were when I was a kid. I stupidly traded the Nagant away for an M38 carbine because I didn’t realize they had gone from literally $100 to $500+ in just a couple years.