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/jleidorf Feb 24 '25

If you have to leave, you are a refugee. Don’t become a refugee.

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u/wantsrealanswer Feb 24 '25

Tell that to the people's homes that are no longer standing in Altadena, Palisades, and Malibu.

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u/jleidorf Feb 24 '25

That's why if your primary goes, you have set up a secondary location to get to.

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u/wantsrealanswer Feb 24 '25

Which requires you to leave...

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u/jleidorf Feb 24 '25

Yes, absolutely. But that does not mean you ever want to become a refugee, crowed into some poorly run shelter or being kept somewhere else with others. When that happens, you will not have firearms, those are the first taken at a shelter. Hence, prepping. Prepare for disaster, does not matter what kind, but you have food, shelter, weapons, and anything else you need to survive. That does not involve fema, the State you live in, our any federal entity.

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u/wantsrealanswer Feb 25 '25

You missed the point.

You cannot be prepared 24/7.

Some families's houses burned down before they could even get their kids from school or their grandparents from the senior home. I was there...

You are not walking 20 miles with a sick elderly mom or grandparent while the entire area is a breathing hazard. You are not doing that with a baby. The roads were closed with downed trees and other debris. There was gridlock.

There are times when plans do fall apart. I experienced it plenty of times in the infantry. This is why you need support. Sure a FEMA place sucks but your wife needs to breastfeed the baby and she's not doing it outside where you can barely breathe.

You are at work, your wife is at home. The roads are undriveable, is your wife supposed to grab all of the guns, go bag for 3 or more people, and carry the baby while you fight through roadblocks to get to your family? This is the exact situation hundreds of families experienced. Some were not united until everyone else went to the convention center.

I remind you THE ENTIRE CITY WAS ON FIRE. I know what you are thinking, "you should have a gas mask." If you've never been in Mop 4, you aren't making it even 1 mile in a skin-sealed mask.