Nah, you need an APC or a tank, depending on how many people are traveling with you. An M1 Abrams tank can do something like 30-50MPH depending on the traveling surface. As long as the zombies don’t figure out how to use anti-armor weapons, you’re golden.
Thus, the AK-74/AKM would be ideal for our Eurasian friends when they need to fight off Zombies, yes?
In Soviet Russia, You eat Zombies! (err… wait… that’s not quite right…)
M1A1 tank would be sweet, with some old fashion beehive rounds in place of the heat/sabot rounds. Coax and loader M240s and the TC’s Ma Deuce outta keep you and three others around long enough to find the next fueling station.
In the first one They did nuke the whole site. But they didn’t do it from orbit.
In the second The zombies were for some crazy reason vulnerable to electric shock, so they baited them into the power plant and went zappy zappy. I guess a taser is what you’d want.
In the third They had some tranquilizing gun thing that worked long enough for people to feel secure, and then the zombies attacked again. Actually, I think the zombies won in the third one.
I should also note that the third movie is orders of magnitudes stupider than the other two. And that’s saying a lot.
Bubastis, I’ve had similar dreams occasionally, ever since I first saw Night of the Living Dead back in the '70s. The Romero movies always got under my skin because in a way it almost seems possible. Okay, it isn’t, which is good, but one can imagine an inexplicable force that reanimates freshly dead bodies, making them function just enough to get on their feet, shamble along, and eat the flesh of the living.
Please note, though, that the O’Bannon “Return of the Living Dead” movies aren’t really horror flicks; they’re more in the way of absurdist comic satire. The “zombies” in those movies include both mounted medical specimens and years-old buried corpses that are basically skeletons, so let’s not take them too seriously.
Anyway, with Romero zombies, although my heart says hand-to-hand weapon (since I’ve already some here in the room, and a machete in my truck), I guess I’d go with either a pair of good reliable semi-automatic pistols (say, Glock 9 mm; those have like a 15-round clip, right?) or a 12-gauge pump with a pistol grip. You don’t need a massively powerful gun; since only head shots will do the job, “stopping power” in the normal sense isn’t that relevant. (I’d really like some body armor, just in case; preferably SWAT gear with a shark suit over it.)
Above all, keep your cool. Pick your shots; don’t empty your gun in random shooting and then collapse in hysterical laughter while the undead ghouls rip your intestines out. Then you’ll be dead too, and nobody needs that shit, Man.
In Soviet Russian, Zombies eat lead!
I’ll go with a Green Lantern power ring. It has the virtues of
- Having an extremely long range so you can use it from a distance;
- Allowing the user to fly, thus getting you out of the alley; and
- Making you freaking nigh-omnipotent, thus pretty much solving the problem anywhistle.
Unless one of the Zombies is Solomon Grundy, you’re golden.
A Boomstick (12 gauge DB) and Buzz (stump mounted chainsaw) combo ala Ash from the Evil Dead trilogy.
And by “golden,” I mean “emerald,” of course. :smack:
What, can you not afford a Gau-19? 
Anyway, according to the Zombie Survival Guide (Which you’d probably enjoy reading), a semiautomatic rifle is one of the best anti-zombie firearms you can have.
So…maybe an SKS with an XM-26 taped underneath.
I think it wasn’t so much them being “vulnerable” to electricity as much as the the huge amounts of electricity simply cooking them.
The problem with that is it weighs a good 139 lbs, whereas the mini only ways 35. Sometimes lighter is better.
Oh, yeah, like a 35 pound belt-fed electric chaingun is going to be a lot more practical to lug around? 
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Might I suggest this? Great protection from Zombies and should deal with them nicely. You might want to be wearing a bio suit when you get out of it after much use, though.
What? No other doper thought of the most obvious weapon, a 1940’s style death ray?
Oh good, a scalar weapon that causes cessation of bio-functions in whatever it hits. That’ll help. :rolleyes:
I’ll take a Niven-style variable-sword, thanks. Bisect anything material within however many feet you like, and it’s light in weight and won’t run out of power. The “Soft Weapon” would be fun, but total-converting any zombie between you and the horizon smacks of overkill.
If you’re golden, the ring won’t work.
Obviously, the bio-weapon approach in killing zombies should be considered.
A mold, spore, or fungus that accellerates decay seems right.
Franchi Spas-12, for all your zombie and police station infiltration needs.
Available with the folding stock, it has a selector switch for pump or semi-automatic action. I had one back in the 90’s, and it was a very nice piece of weaponry.
This is where you need to be Guy Gardiner. 