EMERGENCY BUG-OUT BAGS Reconsidered:

That Must Have Been An Emergency:

COVID-19 coronavirus (or is it SARS-CoVid-2 ?) whatever .. It is making folk who live on Big Macks & KFC anxious and panicky about "self isolating"  & .. toilet paper supplies.

Wash your Hands First eh ;

- It's just about six years since I posted my original version of this essentials story - My emergency 'Bug-Out Bag' is actually a plastic crate in the back of my car .. I also keep a miniature kit in a $20 stainless steel billy-can: 

. I've now bought & pocket carry a small ferro rod fire starter (attached to another Opinel ring-lock knife).

 In the car crate I've stashed a Glock Trench-Tool (this is a combined spade-shovel-pick with a decent saw-blade in the telescoping handle .. you can also sharpen an edge of the spade to use as an axe.
Here is a personal observation: Many camping & military surplus stores stock for sale a type of FOLDING SPADE that must be the weakest most poorly made piece-of-crap that has ever been sprayed olive-drab.
- A "mountain-man" hunter friend who traverses the exposed & steep Southern Alps - for fun with a cheese sandwich in one pocket and an apple the other - sleeps in bivvy (bivouac) bush-camps built using this Glock tool .. testing it - No worries as both joker & tool are lean & tough buggers!

Excellent Quality from Glock

Next in my car crate there is a saucepan, copper-kettle, stainless-steel pan/plate, canned foods (baked beans, Irish stews, tinned meat etc.) a packet of dry biscuits (crackers?), a jar of dry 'rolled oats' (porridge), a screw-top container with tea-bags and sugar, - a plastic water container (with a squirt of bleach in it to stop it turning green) - eating irons, a Glock sheath knife, a pruning saw, a machete  (axe if you prefer), matches, Bic lighter, box of candles, strips of old rubber inner-tube, fuel-tablet folding stove, para-cord, LED battery lights, a small first-aid kit ..

I should have a couple of space-blankets and a sheet of polythene or something better for a 'fly-sheet'.
- Remember to 'Rotate' - replace, the food items whenever you think of it. - Why not keep a sleeping-bag and a small gas stove in your vehicle? .. but I do realise that keeping stuff in your car in places like U.K cities is a worry - especially if it gets parked kerbside overnight several streets distant.

.. If things Nuclear are on your mind - consider that while you can 'purify' water with tablets, filters or bleach - 'iodine' (or Lugols Solution) will also sterilise water - and drinking that water with iodine in it will help saturate your glands with "good iodine" that will then prevent radio-active iodine fallout from being absorbed. - Never forget or ignore that there are more than 14,000 nuclear warheads on our planet .. plus around 160 tonnes of Plutonium stored in UK's Sellafield.

'Thorp' PLUTONIUM dump at Sellafield Cumbria

THE FACTS OF LIFE .. Glock & Ruger tools work.
Something BIG in your life such as a major EARTHQUAKE or NUCLEAR attack will reduce your life expectancy to a simple matter of luck .. but do consider that one yard or metre of soil will stop a hell of a lot of ionizing radiation .. but will also hurt some if it's dropped on you by an earthquake.

We Kiwis live where we get earthquakes .. so do Californians, Italians, Afghanis, Armenians, Pakistanis, Japanese, etc., etc. - so there is a REAL possibility of a problem. - In the last ten years we have had three serious quakes in The South Island of NZ - destroying lives, homes, and businesses - it will take many years to re-build peoples lives, the roads, the sewers etc. 

- And those quakes were not the BIG ONE  that we are overdue from the big South Island Alpine Fault .. sometime when?

Camping Equipment could be a very worthwhile asset eh.

Christchurch Eastern Suburbs Street After The Quakes ..

In U.S.A - the whole 'what-to-put-in the emergency bag' discussion often centres around which AR15 rifles to pack - how many cases of ammunition and what calibre pistols or revolvers? - All important issues that you only speak of in hushed tones here in New Zealand - as we are forbidden by our Police to consider (or voice any intent to use) the need of firearms for self-defence - However, nobody could complain about you having a legal rifle to hand for hunting / food gathering in emergency times. There's nothing wrong with rabbit or duck meat (or squirrel) - roasted or in a stew ..

Would it be bossy of me to suggest that if you keep an axe or machete for emergency shelter building and firewood cutting - Use it from time to time .. carefully for practice - to 'train' your muscles and practice keeping every part of your body CLEAR of impact from the edged tools swing .. an axe sticking-out of your foot would not be a good starting point for long-term comfort.

Place wood on the back/far side of Chopping Block .. In case You Miss your Swing

I guess that in theory your 'bug-out' bag should contain as much as is practicable of all the things you need to live - so that should include some SHELTER, HEAT, WATER, FOOD, CLOTHING, LIGHT, and TOOLS. - Don't neglect a supply of any essential Medications.

- Having that stuff handy means that if you are out driving in a good hunting location or a beautiful fishing river etc. - you can change your plans and stay overnight anytime .. that's freedom eh.

Alternately - if you are lucky enough to have your own home with a patch of dirt .. there are good reasons to work a veggie garden (together with a well stocked pantry:
1/- Healthy chemical-free vegetables
2/- Cost savings from grow-your-own
3/- Healthy exercise digging & weeding etc out in the air
4/- Your crops are a personal food bank in the ground
5/- A woman's home is her castle - why bug-out if you can stay safely where you are?

WASH YOUR HANDS PROPERLY eh, - Soap & Water

Marty K.

Hori Gemmel - Police Glock Thief Sentence:

- At last .. Here we go ... Here we go ...

https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/southland/man-who-stole-cop-car-pistols-be-sentenced?fbclid=IwAR01aeC1CPXNfNpV0ANH6BEW-7bLCx4lHkISqxAq3dqAhzn-B_3lK_MDFMs

So WHAT did this moronic repeat offender & gun thief get sentenced to .. for ramming two cop cars & stealing one, grabbing two Glocks & selling one to a mate for $1,500 plus a whole raft of other crimes?

$2,000 'reparations' plus concurrent sentences of just over 3 years

.. This means that after his short tax-funded holiday he will be thrown back onto the streets of GORE very shortly - only to find that town is still closed - but once there he may be again faced with the conundrum of having to choose between a burger, chips or rolled oats for gang-sta brunch ..

Marty K.

GUNS ARE EVIL & DANGEROUS - Religion's Dichotomy:

Religious folk are betting on there being a god .. whether they know it or not .. they are indeed taking part in the philosophical Pascal's Wager.

- By opting (to choose) to believe in the theist 'GOD' and "GOOD" - " believers" are also committing to believe in the existence of the DEVIL and 'EVIL'.

I Believe That My 'Scoped Ruger 10-22 is a Good Tool 

For Use Hunting Rabbits And Possums:

- Having chosen to believe in "EVIL" .. many religious believers then feel it's necessary to identify an obvious example of evil .. and GUNS are often it. - The gun grabber's argument - because of their faith (logical for believers) - is it must naturally follow that evil guns are made to kill GOOD people .. therefor they have no other purpose than evil - & MUST be prohibited and removed from all other persons.

In their heads this must follow - just as night follows day - or one plus one equals two ..
GUNS ARE EVIL

I Believe My Mk.IV 'HUNTER' Model .22" is Beautifully Engineered:

I had this debate with my lovely Church Elder friend .. "If guns are evil as you say - that means that at a minimum the 12,000 New Zealand police officers are also EVIL because they are issued with and use Assault Rifles & Glock pistols."  (Not to mention the evil nine thousand Government Defence Force trained killers) ..

I Believe My Glock G19X Is a Nicely Balanced & Sweet Shooting 9mm:

" .. Ah no - they use them for GOOD?"   .. "OK - so those police guns could be stamped with a heart or a fish to indicate that they are used with love - whereas all other guns should be stamped with the mark of the Devil ? - including mine that I use for pest control and target shooting ?"

" .. Oh, Ah .. well .. er maybe .. I suppose that it does .. maybe .. depend what they are used for .."

I Believe My 327 Federal Magnum Revolver Is a Very Strong And Versatile Firearm
That Can Use FIVE Different Cartridges:

- So here is the "grabber's" dichotomy .. How does a true believer fight EVIL-DOERS on Earth unless their own weapons .. EVIL GUNS .. become GOOD?

Will New Zealand's leaders pass more gun laws against the Devil?

Marty K.

Bland U.S SHOT SHOW Gets A Nuclear GLOW:

YUCCA MOUNTAIN NEVADA

Needs a LOT of Tunnels Dug For The Radioactive 

 Nuclear Fuel Waste from 27 Reactors 

Closing by 2025:

Nevada certainly is a big place but most shooters know where Las Vegas is - as the location for SHOT SHOW - the worlds biggest and most boring yearly Gun Industry Expo.

2020 SHOT SHOW New Single Shot Zip-gun;

Las Vegas is bottom-Right .. 80 Miles away
 Yucca Mountain is Left of Centre in the 'Test Site'

The story is - that ever more Nuclear Power Stations are being built in U.S ... BUT they still don't know what to do with all the poisonous waste that needs burying away from humanity for the next hundreds of thousands of years.

So ... YUCCA MOUNTAIN  will be the radioactive dump site for the current inventory of 82,000 tonne of radioactive 'civilian fuel waste' ..
Well - they've stopped looking anywhere else - so that's a reasonable guess.

- There's always something to look forward to eh ..

There likely may be some of us wondering why we pay any politicians so much money ... but the truth is that while we pay them .. they DO whatever the wealthy lobbyists want them to do & maximise their profit taking.

The United States does have a 'deep bore' dump operating for  TRANSURANIC WASTE from nuclear weapons in New Mexico, with other temporary leaking dump sites on the Mainland - plus of-course the "Trust Territory" of The Marshall Islands up North of New Zealand where Bikini  and Enewetok  Atoll groups are festering & oozing into the ocean.

The Runit Island DOME is of course leaking radiation into the Pacific Ocean & is called 'THE TOMB' by locals who's home it used to be. Link:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Proving_Grounds

Interesting how we can forget the big picture at times while concentrating on the banning of guns closer to home eh ..
LINKS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_repository

https://thebulletin.org/2020/02/the-yucca-mountain-nuclear-waste-site-has-always-been-a-political-football-trump-is-the-latest-president-to-fumble/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=MondayNewsletter02242020&utm_content=NuclearRisk_YuccaMountain_02212020#

- Just a wee bye-bye thought ... There are many instances of lives being saved by the use of handguns - possibly even by something as simple as that ALTOR single shot ... but can you save life by exploding any government owned nuclear warhead?

Marty K.
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Brits Really Like Both 'GOOD' & 'BAD' GUNS:

I dunno WHY .. but they've always been a bunch of thieving pirates eh.

 - I do know why electors vote for idiots .. that seems to be because we can empathise with a FLAWED LEADER - because that shows it as being human just like us ..

.. Are you serious?

"Truck and trailer" - Trump & Johnson ..

- Can you fat boy pinch more than an inch .. while nobody likes a smart-arse eh ?.. sadly  politics is ALL about emotions

- If you'd like to lead the world ... become a scruffy overweight dumb-ass liar who can manipulate all the corrupt powerful lobbyists while employing smart P R marketing men to tell the public anything they want to hear ... EASY  eh because nobody cares anymore.

Typhoon.

So -Which arms company is the biggest manufacturer in U.K.?

Which British company is the THIRD LARGEST Defence contractor in the World and the biggest in Europe?

Which UK company is the sixth largest supplier to the US Department of Defense?

ASTUTE CLASS  NUCLEAR ATTACK SUBMARINE:

Seven of them at 1.5 Billion Pounds Each for the Royal's Navy.

Yeah it IS the same outfit - BAE Systems .. they are the principle contractor for the U.K's two white-elephant-size-oil-fired Elizabeth Class Aircraft carriers - the Astute Class nuclear submarines & the Eurofighter Typhoon multi-role fighter ..

 They say that they can produce over one million rounds per day of government small arms ammunition in 5.56mm and 7.62mm NATO calibres and they had a "good year" last year 2019 with sales up 7%  from a "solid and sustainable base"..

.. Bloody obvious really .. both the honest & innocent need to defend themselves ... while the aggressive & ambitious want to apply force to others. 

- Perhaps it's all that rain falling from heavy grey skies onto a too densely crowded country - Armed and Dangerous Brits - like crowded drowning rats in a cage eh ..

Marty K.

Wikipedia says:  "Follow the money" is a catchphrase popularized by the 1976 docudrama film All the President's Men, which suggests political corruption can be brought to light by examining money transfers between parties.

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LAWFUL GUN OWNERSHIP IN NZ:

NEW ZEALAND

GUN OWNERSHIP IS A LEGAL RIGHT

- By the passing of the (NZ) Imperial Laws Application Act 1988 - the British Bill of Rights, unmodified, became part of New Zealand law.

.. Article 7 of our British AND New Zealand Bill Of Rights clearly states:

Bill of Rights 1688 (February 13).

"Subjects’ arms. That the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions, and as allowed by law:"

All problems of increasing violent gang crime and illegal drug usage in our beautiful islands are the DIRECT RESULT of Government policies

- negligence, and persistent deliberate UNDER-FUNDING.

We need MORE POLICE DOING THEIR JOB PROPERLY

 - MORE PRISONS - IMPROVED BORDER PROTECTION 

& MORE INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT.

THE MURDERER TARRANT WAS GIVEN A LICENCE BY POLICE WITHOUT PROPER CHECKS AND SECURITY - FOLLOWING REDUCED POLICE RESOURCES FOR FIREARMS LICENSING AND TRAINING - UNDER THIS GOVERNMENT.

Prisons, Roads, Rail, & water ALL need URGENT attention & need to be built by home trained New Zealand skilled workers.

We DON'T need MORE Firearms Regulations OR another 

FAILED GUN REGISTER.

COMMON SENSE IS NOT VERY COMMON IN PARLIAMENT - WHERE THEY ARE TOO BUSY PROTECTING CORPORATE PROFIT-TAKING AND THEIR OWN RE-ELECTION CHANCES.

Marty K.

Under The Politician's Clothes:

All of us are naked under our clothes:

FACTS may be covered-over .. but they are still there ..

Hurried gun legislation that ignores & hides expert advice is doomed to be a costly failure.

This morning I actually heard the President of the NZ POLICE ASSOCIATION Detective Inspector CAHILL on National Radio - demand that Parliament stop the political debate and do as the police say.

Just WHO does he think he is  ... Mussolini ?

Licensed Firearms owners are known worldwide to be exceptionally law abiding.

GUNS ARE NOT EVIL .. GUNS ARE GOOD FOR MANY PURPOSES.

When my family eats naturally harvested wild meat - they are not feeding on captive creatures dosed with growth stimulants, antibiotics, or chlorine washed cage extractions.

- Every feral possum I drop from a high branch benefits both our native trees and our fruit orchards.

When I shoot a healthy rabbit or kill a wild pig - the farmer benefits together with my kitchen freezer.

When we can - we prefer to eat wild caught sea-run Salmon rich in Omega-3 .. rather than a caged fish that was fed on pelletized waste from a meat works.

- I chose to eat as many chemical-free vegetables from my garden as I can grow - preferring to use natural fertilisers and compost on our veggie beds.

I opt to heat my home with renewable firewood ..

I am very lucky to live where these freedoms exist.

But politicians value perceptions - needing to be re-elected - They like to seem to have done something ..

MY GUNS ARE GOOD

Marty K.