Prep priorities outside of the US

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If you lived outside the US, in a non-gun friendly zone, what would your top prep priorities be?

So I'll start and get out the obvious...

1. Food & Water
2. Non-firearm defense
3. Communication options

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1. Food/water
2. Familiarization with the area/surrounding areas
3. How best to hide the firearms I have
 
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Preps for what?
I think it'd all depend on what I was preparing for.
Example - my GHB in my car wouldnt change at all minus the extra ammo in it. Its still got the things I THINK could keep me relatively comfortable IN my car for 24 hours or on a 20 mile walk home should I need to. Ive said before, I first put the pack together after seeing what happened down in ATL when cars were stuck for something like 18 hours on the highway in a snow storm...same one that came our way and I had a brand new car, thought 'just in case...'
Well, Just In Case evolved into something I feel secure with in my vehicle.
 
Preps for what?
I think it'd all depend on what I was preparing for.
Example - my GHB in my car wouldnt change at all minus the extra ammo in it. Its still got the things I THINK could keep me relatively comfortable IN my car for 24 hours or on a 20 mile walk home should I need to. Ive said before, I first put the pack together after seeing what happened down in ATL when cars were stuck for something like 18 hours on the highway in a snow storm...same one that came our way and I had a brand new car, thought 'just in case...'
Well, Just In Case evolved into something I feel secure with in my vehicle.

How likely would you be to have a vehicle out of the country? Of course you can follow that by saying, I'll never leave the country. Then this is a moot discussion.

But if you're out of the country having a movement plan is the most important thing, more important than fire, more important than anything anything else aside from maybe identification papers. This is particularly true if you're in any country where the population does not look like you. Also letting the embassy and consulate know you are in the country and what area you are likely to be in.
 
Did you read the James Wesley Rawles book about the guy who bikes from Germany to France/England then gets a sailboat ride to South America?

His priorities were travel (bike), defensive items that didn’t look like a gun or knife (like a 4 D-Cell flashlight etc), food, bartering items, etc

Self defense would be a huge one for me
 
How likely would you be to have a vehicle out of the country? Of course you can follow that by saying, I'll never leave the country. Then this is a moot discussion.

But if you're out of the country having a movement plan is the most important thing, more important than fire, more important than anything anything else aside from maybe identification papers. This is particularly true if you're in any country where the population does not look like you. Also letting the embassy and consulate know you are in the country and what area you are likely to be in.

Your first part is flawed.
Sorry, I dont mean to be a jerk, but it's not what the OP asked about and to what I responded.
He was asking what preps would be like if you "lived outside the US, in a non-gun friendly zone"
So it's not a traveling question, but living there question.
I do travel out of the country, and even when traveling outside of the US Ive had a car each day.
 
Your first part is flawed.
Sorry, I dont mean to be a jerk, but it's not what the OP asked about and to what I responded.
He was asking what preps would be like if you "lived outside the US, in a non-gun friendly zone"
So it's not a traveling question, but living there question.
I do travel out of the country, and even when traveling outside of the US Ive had a car each day.

I interpreted it a different way. I have been in so many third world crap holes it's not even funny, and sometimes I've had a car and sometimes not. So I don't mean to be a jerk, but that was the way I interpreted the question.

But I could see your point. I think it's because I did travel so much, I had the illusion of living there.
 
I interpreted it a different way. I have been in so many third world crap holes it's not even funny, and sometimes I've had a car and sometimes not. So I don't mean to be a jerk, but that was the way I interpreted the question.

But I could see your point. I think it's because I did travel so much, I had the illusion of living there.
I love international travel, but where you and I differ is I dont want to go to a crap hole country lol
I stay in Canada and western Europe
 
1. No matter the country, register with the US Embassy/Consulate as soon as you settle in. They will keep you abreast of evacuations /NEO operations and where to find you. Know several safe routes to them.
2. Keep your passport handy. Have a PACE evac plan to get to a safer country. Remember air/land/sea. Don't wait if you have prior knowledge if going south quickly.
3. Stock up on food/water/med supplies. Keep cash and liquor for bartering.
4. Communication plan, develop one to talk to the outside so someone is tracking you.
5. If SHTF, know battlefield recovery to get weapons if possible. Have the knowledge to make your own zip gun. Ammo maybe the hardest to get. Get a machete if possible, I've seen those all over the world.

CD
 
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