So the other day I was bored and was thinking about prepping, as in doomsday prepping. Now, I don't believe that Obama is a fascist/communist/radical Islamist lizard-man from the center of the earth or whatever people believe these days (not that I have anything against people who do, it is a free country); prepping is just something I wanna do when I'm too obscenely rich to care about anything, right after I build a hospital and name it after the brief 2016 presidential hopeful 'Deez Nuts'. If I was to do this, I would wanna go all the way. I'm talking about a facility capable of sheltering a large community and provide the foundation for a city-state, if not a nation.
Anyways, while I'm pretty sure that I could easily get my hands on alot of the easy stuff (solar panels, fallout shelter, gas masks, MREs, seeds, water purifiers, livestock, textbooks, medical supplies, electronics, etc) and get an easy price estimate on said items, I'm not sure about firearms. Now what I was wondering is could a single individual with no criminal record purchase a large amount of firearms legally? I mean very large, something that would dwarf a personal gun collection. Basically the core of my question is how much would it cost to buy 750 M-14 rifles, 100 Ruger Mini-14 carbines, 100 high power sniper rifles (not sure which) , 50 Mossburg 500 shotguns, 1500 S&W M&P pistols, 5000 Colt Detective Special revolvers, and 200 Ruger Mark 3 pistols along with all the tools, spare parts, and ammo to keep them working for 150 years and if some billionaire was just to wake up one day and decided to get his hands on all these guns (even if only for the purpose of stowing them in a bunker for god knows how long) then what would be stopping him? Would the ATF care, as long as they did everything legally? Is it even possible to do this all legally? Would they have to go through a lot of trouble to get them (going through multiple vendors) or could they just place an order with the manufacturers? Also while I'm confident explosives and large caliber automatic weapons are out of the question, how hard would it to get a fleet of armored troop transports (legally)? I'm asking you, because even though I'm not really thinking of working this into a story, I figure this is the sort of place where people can safely ask weird questions like this.
Also I'm not like, crazy or anything, I just really like post apocalyptic stuff, like Fallout and Mad Max. I hope the laundry list I just gave to you is ludicrous enough to not be taken seriously as any sort of threat.
Anyways, while I'm pretty sure that I could easily get my hands on alot of the easy stuff (solar panels, fallout shelter, gas masks, MREs, seeds, water purifiers, livestock, textbooks, medical supplies, electronics, etc) and get an easy price estimate on said items, I'm not sure about firearms. Now what I was wondering is could a single individual with no criminal record purchase a large amount of firearms legally? I mean very large, something that would dwarf a personal gun collection. Basically the core of my question is how much would it cost to buy 750 M-14 rifles, 100 Ruger Mini-14 carbines, 100 high power sniper rifles (not sure which) , 50 Mossburg 500 shotguns, 1500 S&W M&P pistols, 5000 Colt Detective Special revolvers, and 200 Ruger Mark 3 pistols along with all the tools, spare parts, and ammo to keep them working for 150 years and if some billionaire was just to wake up one day and decided to get his hands on all these guns (even if only for the purpose of stowing them in a bunker for god knows how long) then what would be stopping him? Would the ATF care, as long as they did everything legally? Is it even possible to do this all legally? Would they have to go through a lot of trouble to get them (going through multiple vendors) or could they just place an order with the manufacturers? Also while I'm confident explosives and large caliber automatic weapons are out of the question, how hard would it to get a fleet of armored troop transports (legally)? I'm asking you, because even though I'm not really thinking of working this into a story, I figure this is the sort of place where people can safely ask weird questions like this.
Also I'm not like, crazy or anything, I just really like post apocalyptic stuff, like Fallout and Mad Max. I hope the laundry list I just gave to you is ludicrous enough to not be taken seriously as any sort of threat.