1983 your scenery is REALLY COOL.

I would love to live in a place like that. Not just for the scenery (ala waterfront views) but because what you can do there.

Your lifestyle could be like what people do once or twice a year, with the campfires, wild caught food, play commandos in the scrub (stalk deer with a bow), build a log cabin and all other kinds of stuff.

I am very jealous, considering I am limited to ultralight camping and would love to have that lifestyle.

Have you ever considered a Sako Quad rifle, if you are looking to reduce the collection? The scope that's made for it does not need 'adjusting' as such when you switch out barrels.

If I had to choose a small gun collection I would have, for sustainment:

The Sako Quad
A Ruger Red Label or Lanber O/U 12ga with interchangable chokes
A 20ga for similar sized critters as the Sako
A .223 rifle, a .243 rifle and a .308 rifle, all bolt guns, possibly an ultralight like the Remington 700 Titanium.

For pest control/general duties/home defence

A Ruger 10/22
Generic pump action shotgun such as a 590 or 870 in 12ga
An autoloading .223 and an autoloading .308, maybe a Browning BAR or a AR style.

And for throw in the back of the truck guns I would have
A Lee Enfield that had already been butchered (eg sporterized)
A SKS
A cheap SxS 12ga
A cheap .22

And for the king in me:
A Drilling, all engraved and such with polished walnut.

I think an important thing to note is the difference between the goal of an insurgency vs that of a conventional army. Yes, a bunch of armed peasants probably can't take out drones, helicopters, ICBMS, etc. HOWEVER drones don't enforce curfews, helicopters don't drag political prisoners out of their homes in the middle of the night, and ICBMS don't loot supplies from businesses. Boots on the ground do that, and lots and lots of people with rifles are still good against those.

You're not trying to "win" the war. You're trying to survive and disrupt it. You can't beat a conventional army, but you can make it so goddamn expensive (in terms of money, blood, or morale) that they can't be there.

I have no illusions of "overthrowing the government" in the event of tyranny or occupation. I aim to protect my family, friends, and neighbors (and their sovereignty) from those scenarios. That to me is the 21st-century niche of the Second Amendment, and probably the most realistic goal of an armed citizen insurgency.

Step 1.
Enforce curfew

Step 2.
Armoured vehicles

Step 3.
House by house, street by street. Search/detain

Step 4.
Resist and be treated as a enemy combatant and get killed. Be outside when curfew is in place and get killed.

They last about 5 minutes or less. Then the battery is drained.

Get a large, hand held spotlight, if all you are after is a bright flashlight. You can also get them rechargable so you don't need to buy new batteries.

They will last for a much longer time, but they will not fit in your pocket.

I ordered a bunch of them yoyo reels.

But I can't find them in non-shiny or in non-metal (plastic).

That falls back to the argument of how many complacent people there would already be, the "control" would be there in some way. then there would be hot spots where every one is revolting, you dont think they would loose a couple missles? wiping out a town or a city can be done with the push of a button

Now the costly and morale burning part i agree with completely thats exactly how the us got fucked in vietnam. i feel as though that'd be very possible here since it would for the most part be guerilla warfare

Vietnam was not fought as a conventional war.

If it was it would have been over in less than a year.

Eg, Phoenix Program. If that had been implemented years before it was, attacks north of the DMZ were conventional, and the action was more military minded rather than police minded with military tactics, the communists would have been wiped out very, very quickly.

Molecular chemistry and gated ion channels is not something that can be guesstimated.

A + B does not always = C.

I learnt that the hard way.

In a modern, developed country, the best way to have a revolution is a coup d'etat. If it fails you end up with a massive civil war and everything gets destroyed.

So, you have to make comrades with police, military, emergency services, local militant types such as ex-soldiers and 'patriot groups' and hope you do not get detected by counter intelligence, which the police, military, etc etc are going to report you to immediately as they will probably think it is a counter intelligence investigation and don't want to end up against a wall and shot to death, which is what would happen if you tried to do something like this.

And the news would be something like this:

"Local man shot to death in bungled drug deal" or "Man hacked to death with meat cleaver in home invasion robbery gone wrong"

Ok, you have some guns.

The military still has Delta Force. They also have guns. And tanks. And UAV's with missiles.