Arming a militia in the event of a revolution/Civil war

Strategic supply of bread and circuses didn't run out yet.
Priceless 2 billion dollars per year israel only makes flattering claims about Holocaust happening only because Poland wanted it to happen and boldly demands 300 billion dollars ransom in real estate and land with no actions to back up those words.

Football and Mcdonalds is still readily available.

The US will never have a revolution the population is so complacent and embedded so deeply in pop culture that large scale civil unrest would never be possible

Certain kinds of baked goods and a certain form of entertainment involving tents hasn't collapsed yet.
I pray for it every day though. I don't care if I'm one of the first to die, I'm just so sick of this cartoon world we're forced to live in.

That's a foolish train of thought, literally every empire collapses at some point.
Whether we'll see it in our lifetime is the only real uncertainty.
Maybe we won't see a 1776 tier revolution, but there will be a collapse, and like with every collapse there will be insurgencies.

You guys are the foolish ones with this train of thought. Sometimes shitbag empires go on for hundreds of years in fact most do.

The civilization itself may nominally exist for decades before and after the 'Empire,' but the imperial stage itself only lasts ~250 years.

Hi FBI

but seriously, all those independent and small business weapon makers in the US that have sprung up after 9/11? They're pretty god damn freedom loving. First sign of shit and they're going to get their movable equipment and their knowledge the fuck out of town and hide up somewhere until they can make contact with a friendly group. Then all they're going to need is the raw materials and they'll start churning out weapons.
And while I enjoy a good giggle switch, honestly since a militia isn't going to have the same ammo stores as a modern military, semi-auto rifles are probably the best thing to be using. Promotes accuracy and saves ammo.

There's definitely some truth to this, and there's the fact that most US gunowners only have semi-auto rifles. Lightning links aren't hard to make but they're also not select fire. At the start of the insurgency I think you'd see only one or two "designated LMGs" per squad–basically an AR with a lightning link, maybe modified to shoot on the open bolt–for suppressive fire, with the rest using semi-automatic weapons. If there are enough dedicated reloaders that might change, particularly once you can start manufacturing/capturing select-fire weapons. However, keep in mind that an insurgency wouldn't be fought as a symmetrical war. Actual engagements with the enemy would be less common and only done with overwhelming force. Because of the lower intensity of the conflict at the start you could get away with full-auto more often, because you would be in fewer firefights.

Probably the point at which the insurgency/pro liberty side "wins" is when the federal treasury bonds bubble bursts which means bread and circuses goes right out the window and you get the mother of all crashes, causing mass hunger, poverty and industry readjustment as prices reset to what they are supposed to be without federal dicketry- for the first month. After that, the fed will likely put in massive restrictions on letting go of employees, restrictions on trade and print ungodly amounts of money we have never seen before to try and salvage their position, which simply worsens everything and leads to a suspension of rights so that the government can try to reassert itself- meaning confiscations. It's easier, however, for a hostile state to prepare for this eventuality by disarming beforehand, meaning it can withstand the crash whilst we eat dirt.

The best way to arm yourself for the coming storm is to learn a trade, grow food, have a power source and stock, and make friends.