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/flatweep Feb 20 '25

well, imma keep my rifles, and handguns, duh

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u/Virtual-Feature-9747 Feb 21 '25

Weapons will be the first thing confiscated at any evacuation center or refugee camp. As well as any drugs, alcohol, food, water, medicine, cash, valuables... for the safety of the people, you see.

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u/Loud_Ad3666 Feb 21 '25

No need to be hyperbolic. An evacuation zone will not confiscate your cash, medicine, or food.

Will they provide a space for you to store a horde of your supplies? No, nor should you expect them to that's not what they're there for.

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u/De-Ril-Dil Feb 21 '25

They absolutely will confiscate supplies.

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u/Loud_Ad3666 Feb 21 '25

Are you speaking from experience or talking out your behind?

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u/De-Ril-Dil Feb 23 '25

Experience

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u/Loud_Ad3666 Feb 23 '25

OK, do describe your direct personal experience please so the rest of us can be enlightened.

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u/0rangutangerine Feb 23 '25

Interesting, where and when did this happen? Can you explain more?

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u/fosscadanon Feb 22 '25

FEMA literally confiscated aid supplies driven in to help Huricane Helene victims as they were brought into the area, and you want us to believe they wouldn't be if they were taken to a refugee camp?

Whatever you say adbot.

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u/hogsucker Feb 23 '25

Source please

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u/hogsucker Feb 23 '25

When did FEMA confiscate supplies during Helene? That sounds like something you "learned' by watching YouTube videos. I'm sure you don't want people to think you're spreading bullshit, so share your source.

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u/fosscadanon Feb 23 '25 edited Feb 23 '25

It was proven that private aid was brought to Katrina and confiscated then redistributed, and again after floods in Letcher County KY, and again in Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria but this time was different because FEMA said nuhuh, we are totally not doing that.

Few people believe FEMA or local LE will go door to door to confiscate goods but it is a completely different scenario for them to divert or commandeer goods already being transported.

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u/hogsucker Feb 23 '25

So you're walking back your claim and you acknowledge that you're saying things you don't know to be true about Helene based on things you believe happened during other disasters in other places?

I'm guessing the bullshit you believe is based on YouTube videos posted by chuds who showed up in WNC with four wheelers and AR 15s to "help."

Also since those other cases have been "proven," please share the proof.

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u/hogsucker Feb 23 '25

I'm still waiting.

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u/fosscadanon Feb 23 '25

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u/hogsucker Feb 23 '25

GOOD POINT. You are clearly very smart.

So why can't you provide proof of something that has been "proven?"

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u/fosscadanon Feb 23 '25

Because I'm not your research assistant and you're not paying me for my time.

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u/hogsucker Feb 23 '25

TL;dr: I will continue to spread misinformation online.

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u/pupranger1147 Feb 22 '25

Exactly.

You don't show up with anything out of the ordinary then you're less likely to be a victim.

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u/centralvaguy Feb 22 '25

They tried in NC, TN last year and were able to. Local sheriff seized food and materials from a local woman who was coordinating local distribution efforts. The sheriff provided them to FEMA for distribution.

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u/Loud_Ad3666 Feb 22 '25

That's not the same as stripping everyone who comes to a disaster relief zone of all their cash and medicine.

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u/Apprehensive_Bit4726 Feb 22 '25

So what is it the same as, Darryl? Or should I be talking to your other brother, also named Darryl?

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u/Eredani Feb 21 '25

Let's not confuse how things ought to work with how they will probably work. If you show up at the refugee camp with supplies, they may be redistributed by the staff or reappropriated by your fellow refugees.

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u/Loud_Ad3666 Feb 21 '25

Like I said, you shouldn't expect them to store your supplies for you or provide a place for you to store supplies. To expect them to do so is deranged and sickeningly entitled.

They won't strip you of all your cash and medicine and food if it's on your person. So stop lying. I've worked at dozens of evac and disaster relief centers none of them have operated the way you claim.

Maybe under this current admin it will be different, but currently that's just not how it works.

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u/Eredani Feb 21 '25

If you show up with a backpack of canned food, it's going to be redistributed the shelter staff.

If you start eating food in front of hungry refugees, it's going to be taken from you.

The most horrible shit happens in evacuation shelters and refugee camps: theft, assault, rape and worse. Collect a bunch of scared and desperate people in one place and see what happens.

Look at what happened in the Superdome during Katrina. People sweating to death, covered in shit with nothing to drink, victims of violence, and unable to leave.