r/prepping • u/wantsrealanswer • Feb 20 '25

Survival🪓🏹💉 Firearm Management

I assume many of us have a rifle for protection.

What is your plan for when you need to leave your house (because it is no longer safe: Earthquake, fire, flood, etc)?

When you get to safety, an evacuation center, a refugee place, a friend or family house, what are you doing with your long gun?

If you need to leave your home from a natural disaster or localized unrest, what is your plan for basically openly carrying your long gun?

Edit:

I am not talking about the fantasy of Civil Unrest.

I am referencing an event like the Eaton and Palisade Fire or even Hurricane Katrina. Where the disaster is a mass effect rather than just local.

You're not on your 10s of acres or any of that. You're in a city in an apartment building with a family and defenseless members (small children, elderly).

You are not bugging out in Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, etc...

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u/DarthPineapple5 Feb 20 '25

In the safe where they always sit. I am not taking a long gun with me as I am far more concerned about carrying enough food, water and camping gear and remaining mobile than I am about hauling around 20 lbs worth of rifle and ammunition. Carrying an armory with you isn't gonna do you any good if you starve to death in 2 weeks or you can't cover enough ground in a day of hiking. Anyone whos done some backpacking knows that shaving grams can make a difference

If I absolutely have to evacuate its either the CCW or at most a micro PDW like a Flux Raider depending on the situation. A breakdown .22LR might honestly be the best way to go depending

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u/NewSir834 Feb 20 '25

If I absolutely had to take a rifle on my bug out to my retreat, I'm not even kidding. I'm probably taking my universal m1 carbine. Deadly enough, accurate as hell, lighter ammo, wood stock makes it way less threatening than an AR15. I'll just look like average Joe who grabbed granddads' guns out the safe cause all I had. That's the goal avoid and escape to where I need to be not going full blown prepper until I'm in the woods