Walking dead season 2 premiers tonight at 9pm est.
I'm currently watching reruns form last year.
Here is an observation from the current episode.
They are on this mystical journey to get a bag of guns. Ok so there are 350 million known guns in the US, there are 307 million people. If most are now zombies (zombies don't use guns) there would be a *expletive deleted* load of guns lying around. No need to go looking for the bag they had. Plus they are in Georgia, were 40 percent of all people have at least one. So in theory there are more guns lying around than dead people. There are 15 major military bases in Georgia, I thing the pickings would be better there.
They knew where that bag o'guns was, and that they were all functional and safe to use, being sheriff's-dept.-issue. Might make up for a lot, as opposed to having to crawl through many houses (with potential for exposure to hidden walkers in each and every one) to try to acquire a rag-bag collection of dissimilar weapons.
Took 'em *WAY* too long to acquire quiet hand weapons, though. One thought I had, and continue to have, was that they needed to hit up a sporting-goods store for crossbows and arrows, maybe aluminum bats, find a bunch of crowbars, things like that. Make boar spears, too, even. Firearms would be useful and at least occasionally necessary for survival, post-apocalypse - but they're *LOUD*. We've already seen that it can be REALLY handy to not make enough noise to draw every walker within 10 miles to your location.
The behind-the-scenes stuff on the Season 1 disc was cool, if you haven't seen it - they even teach you how to do zombie makeup with commonly-available supplies.