Hide Your Guns
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................... Introduction............... .......................................................................3 ...................................3 Chapter 1: Security Systems......................................... Systems...........................................................7 ..................7 Chapter 2: Simple Hiding Places.................................................15 Chapter 3: Elaborate Hides......................................... Hides..........................................................21 .................21 Chapter 4: Weapons Caching......................................................27 Chapter 5: Preparing a Cache.....................................................33 Chapter 6: Concealing a Cache...................................................47 Chapter 7: MetalDetectors..................................... Detectors............................................................53 .......................53 Chapter 8: StayingBelowthe Radar Radar.................................. ...............................................59 .............59 Chapter 9: A Biblical Response to Sel-Deense, Guns, and 2nd Amendment Rights.............................65 Chapter 10: Conclusion............................................................ Conclusion....................... ........................................69 ...69 Resources or Materials...............................................................71 Additional Resources or Sel Reliant Living...............................73
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INTRODUCTION
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istory teaches us about dicta- ness in the ace o criminal predators and tors and tyrants that disarmed terrorists. their people and began an ethnic cleansing program against various segments With our government turning over more o their populations. Te Holocaust is but o its authority to international courts and one example. global regulations, the t he United Nations Human Rights Council’s position that a perTese practices aren’t just historical events son has no legal right to sel-deense behowever, but comes even more policies that conchilling. Tat the tinue even today council seats are in countries we stacked with repsend our soldiers resentatives rom to ght in, and nations with the places we read worst human about in the rights violations headlines o our on record is even newspapers. more telling. China, RwanTey are the da, Burma, governments Uganda, Somalia, Darur - oppressive re- that deny their citizens basic sel-deense gimes that have disarmed their citizens and measures while at the same time imprisonkilled millions. Government thugs routine- ing and killing their own people. ly rape, steal, and disenranchise millions more. In addition, treaties entered into with oreign countries supersede American law and England, Canada, Europe, Australia, the Constitution. Our government doesn’t Mumbai, and various communities in the have to take away our second amendment United States—countries and areas that rights. have denied their citizens the right to keep and bear arms, and have subjected them to increasing lawlessness and helpless- Tey only have to sign a UN treaty to eectively disarm the American people.
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All that sounds scary and threatening, but what does it mean or those o us at home, just trying to get by with our day-to-day lives, raising our amilies, and doing the best we can?
son or our crime cri me rates in the United States, yet in Vermont, Vermont, a state st ate with no restrictions on gun ownership or carry laws, the rate o homicide and robbery is a raction o the national rate or these crimes.
Ask the people o Britain and Wales Wales who, despite stringent gun control laws, suer the highest probability o becoming a victim o crime. Ask the people o Australia, Canada, Europe and Scandinavia who have been disarmed. Tey will more likely become victims o a conrontational crime than those o us in the United States.
In this time o economic unrest when we see the value o our money and our homes decline and when our jobs hang by a thread, maintaining a home deense and security system against people who would come and steal what little you have is a must. Te courts have ruled, all the way up to the Supreme Court, that the police have no constitutional obligation to protect American citizens rom criminals. Let me put that another way: the police don’t have to save you rom any crime being committed against you. I you want to protect your amily and possessions, you’re you’re going to t o have to do it yoursel.
Burglars in areas that do not restrict people’s people’s access to guns are cautious about entering a home that’s occupied. Tey hesitate to rob mom and pop privately owned stores and instead target national chains because they know that corporate rules keep employees rom deending themselves with a weapon. According to a National Center Policy Te goal o this manual is to provide you Analysis brie, criminals commit 10 mil- with the inormation you need to put tolion violent and 30 million property crimes gether a plan or hiding your weapons and a year in the United States. John R. Lott, valuables rom anyone who would want to author o the book More More Guns, Less Crime, steal them rom you. Only you can decide says that guns are used to hinder up to 3.6 what you want to hide and to what extent million crimes a year. year. you want to hide it. Gun control advocates would like you to Don’t let apathy or an attitude o “it can’t believe that easy access to guns is the rea- happen in this country” countr y” keep you rom get-
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ting your aairs in order o rder now. now. Te time to be prepared is beore the need arises. I you wait until the thie is at the door, door, it’ll already be too late.
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Frederick Douglass
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CHAPTER I Security Sy Systems stems
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our rst line o deense against thet should be an in-home security system. You can get crazy and spend a lot o money, but i you’re not hiding an extensive collection o precious jewels or sensitive government documents then you don’t need a million dollar top-o-the-line sae.
In addition, laws are sometimes changed that make instant criminals o law-abiding citizens overnight. Many gun owners have ound themselves in the tenuous position o having an illegal weapon due to the enactment o restrictive gun laws. It makes sense to have a secure place or these items while waiting to see i these laws are overturned.
You need to sit You s it down and decide your needs and applications. How oten do you expect someone to break into your home? Would they be able to set up camp and spend as long as they wanted going through your stu? Would watchul neighbors alert the authorities, shortening their time in your home?
Te IRS has been known to obtain warrants to search the sae deposit boxes o those they are auditing. Innocent coin collections and cash can be looked at as an attempt to evade income taxes by these overzealous agents. Home security systems can keep snoopy IRS agents rom getting the wrong impression about what your collections and cash reserves are What kind o stu do you want to put in really or. a sae? Are you trying to protect your gun collection, keep an emergency reserve o How much you spend on a home sae cash in the event your bank ails, or store should be in proportion to what you eel wills and legal documents so they can be your possessions are worth. You may want accessed at any time and not just when the to purchase extra insurance instead o a sae banks are open? to cover those items that you don’t want to
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty - Patrick Henry
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leaving the phone o the hook, or having the post oce hold your mail, then expect to come back to a house that burglars have taken their time going through with a netoothed comb. Common sense measures Any gun collection should be considered are always your rst priority in a saety system. well worth the nancial investment to secure, especially espe cially those tho se that don’t don’t have a paper Y o u trail leading to you. A secure place to store want to cash on hand, important documents, and make a things that prying eyes shouldn shouldn’’t have access thie’s to should be given high priority when calw o r k culating the cost benets o a home sae. harder The Basics o Home Saety by makI you are oolish enough to leave on vacaing him tion without stopping newspaper delivery, think you’re either at home or will be returning home at any time. It’s a mind game, and you have to play it eectively. take a nancial loss on but that don’t hold special value to you. Old heirlooms that have a high dollar appraisal but no sentimental worth all into this category. category.
Look at your home through the eyes o a thie, and try to imagine the things that would keep you rom attempting a breakin. Keep lights on in a ew rooms with high visibility rom outside. Keep the television or radio going, a little louder than usual. I you’’re away or an extended period, take the you phone o the hook. All this activity gives the impression o someone in the house.
Hide Your Guns Burglars are less likely to break into a house that is protected by a gun, especially i they’re not quite sure i the owner is at home. A simple NRA decal in a conspicuous place like the window in an entryway door has been shown to be a deterrent to criminals.
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Tese deterrents can easily cost the lie o a amily member in the event o a re by blocking their escape rom the house. It’s ar better to have a saety bar across the top o the lower pane to keep someone rom being able to raise it rom outside. Tis bar can easily and quickly be removed i a re breaks out.
Criminals “case a joint” beore actually attempting to burglar it. You You want to make Quality locks are another item in your dethis as dicult or him as possible. Replace terrent system. I you have to skip the walloutside lights with automatic motion-de- paper in the bathroom and the designer tecting ones that come on when someone passes through the beam o the photocell. rim back shrubbery, trees, and plants rom the house. Overgrowth creates a sae haven or the burglar with hiding spots galore. Having prickly plants like cacti, holly bushes, or roses will also keep him rom hiding too close to the house. (Just give yoursel enough room rom these plants to escape through a window in the event o a re.) paint job in the kitchen, always buy quality locks and hardware. Buy heavy duty strikRunning a bead o caulk around the er plates and locks that are secured to the edges o storm windows makes removing rame o the house and not just to the trim them quietly almost impossible. Double- around the door. paned windows are also harder or thieves to get through. Dead bolts add an extra measure o protection. Building codes don’t don’t allow builders Tere are saety issues involved in install- to install keyed dead bolts on the inside o ing iron bars outside o bedroom windows, a house or re saety reasons. However, i or in nailing or bolting shut windows. you have a thumb-latch dead bolt under-
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neath or near a window, a thie merely has to break the glass and reach in to turn the lock. You can replace it with a keyed lock, but you should hang a spare key near enough to the dead bolt (although out o reach o a thie on the other side o the door) that anyone can get out o the house i it catches on re. I you nd yoursel moving, always look or areas with low-crime rates. Go to the lolo cal police station and nd out which neighborhoods suer rom a higher amount o break-ins and avoid purchasing a home there i at all possible. Even i you have to rest o the house. Te outside line should commute a little arther to get to work, the be protected in metal conduit to make it peace o mind you have will be worth it. harder or anyone to cut it. The Refuge Room Te reuge room is also known as a panic room or a sae room. Te most important thing about this room is that it be in a location that you and your amily can reach in a hurry.. Since most burglaries occur at night, hurry your reuge room should either be close to the bedroom or be the bedroom itsel. Tis room should have a door that can be locked rom the inside. I your cell phone doesn’t work well inside your house, then ideally you should have a separate phone line in this one room that isn’t tied to the
Te purpose o a reuge room is to keep the person who has broken into your house away rom you and your amily as long as possible. o that end, you’re going to need to install a solid core door with heavy locks and the hinges on the inside. You’re going to want this door to lock rom the outside as well, since this is the room you’ll be storing your valuables in. Your reuge room is going to need more than a strong door. Any burglar whose brain isn’t ried on dope will know that he can kick through a standard Sheetrock wall and enter a room. Plywood paneling will
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add sturdiness and greater impenetrability is constructed, or designing an addition to to your reuge room walls. You don’ don’t even the house, then reinorced cement block have to remove the drywall. Just nail the walls is the preerred material or a re uge uge plywood in place over it. Mark your studs room. so that you’re nailing into raming mem- Inexpensive Gun Safes bers and not just the drywall itsel. I money is a concern you can buy inexO course i you’re starting rom scratch pensive saes or gun chests that, with a little and planning your room beore the house bit o ingenuity, will give you some level o
Hide Your Guns protection. I the total value o your weapons and assets that you want to store are less than $5000, then an inexpensive sae that is bolted down properly will deter most amateur burglars.
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Tese saes are easy to move and place because they’re not as heavy as some o their more expensive cousins. Many discount stores, warehouse clubs, and sporting goods stores carry these saes. Tey range in price rom $300 to $1,000.
Te drawback to an inexpensive sae is that the thickness o metal in the sae is less than One thing about saes – i you don’t bolt it adequate and the doors are not o sucient to the oor (preerably a concrete oor) then construction to withstand an attack rom even i you spend $10,000 on it, it won’t aord you very much protection. A thie will anyone with a crowbar or an axe. simply roll it over and hack into it rom the back, side or top. ry to position the sae inside a closet or closed-in space so that a burglar can’t get much swinging room to wield an axe or crowbar when trying to break into it. You can rame-in the sae with 2 x 4’s and sheetrock or panel around it. Make sure that bolt holes are pre-drilled in the bottom o the sae so that you can secure it to the oor. I the model you’re looking at doesn’t have arrangements made or bolting it down, don’t buy it. Te more weight that you can add to the gun sae, the better. You want to make it as hard as possible or the thie to move it around. o that end, store large amounts o ammunition in the bottom o your sae in addition to your guns and other valuables.
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However, avoid storing your gunpowder or the salesman may tell you, common sense primers in the sae. Tese items are volatile says that inside the sae is better. and can easily explode. Te door should have locking bolts on all Homak and Liberty oer models that our sides. Doors with locking bolts on less ft within this category and are reasonably than our sides and the hinges compromised removed. Tere are are several options options in priced. In addition , Liberty saes are also freproo can be removed. rated to withstand 1200 degree heat anywhere rom locking mechanisms, and you should study 30 minutes to 2 ½ hours depending on the model. up on these beore making a choice on the model sae you buy. High End Safes and Gun Vaults
Tose wanting wanting a higher level le vel o security or their goods will want to invest invest in a gun g un vault. Te oremost consideration is construction design. Te most desirable would be a one piece molded sae with no seams at all, but they don’t make such a critter. You will want a sae with as ew seams as possible that have been solidly welded. ry to avoid those that that are spot welde welded. d. Any break in the seam welds is a place or a thie to insert a crowbar to pry the metal up. Te price or this sae will be directly related to the thickness o the metal that it’s constructed rom, but still, ten-gauge metal is about as thin as you want to go with your high-end sae. Te door construction is as important as the shell. Note the hinges – are they located inside or outside o the sae? Despite what
Browning, Fort Knox and Smith Security Saes build not only high quality saes, but the doors and rames or constructed gun vaults. I you go with a gun vault, you can also design it to be your sae room as well.
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What To Look For When Buying A Safe Make sure to do adequate research on different brands before buying your safe. Things to take into consideration are: 1. The most security sec urity for your money mo ney.. Compare fire and burglary ratings among the brands and models you’re considering. considering. 2. Buy a safe that fits your needs...and needs...and then some. Make Make a list of what you want to store and buy your safe a little bigger than needed so you can add as you see fit. 3. Make sure the interior is adequate. You’ll need 58” minimum interior heighth to store long rifles rif les.. Look for shelves and compartments and if they are are adjustable. adjustable. 4. Choose a safe that you can easily use but has the best protection. Most home owners go with a safe bolted to the floor f loor in a closet or safe room. 5. If you’re hiring someone to install your safe, ask these questions! • Are they bonded and insured? • How long have they been in business? • Do they have a service department? • Are they knowledgeable? Ask them to show you the difference between a burglary and fire safe. A fire safe is not necessarily burglar burglar proof and vice versa.
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CHAPTER II SIMPLE HIDING PLACES
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ith the threats that we ace Put yoursel in the mind o a burglar, or a today rom our current eco- government agent, and look at your home. nomic crisis and terrorist cells Where would be the rst place a burglar operating in most major cities, it makes would look or valuables? I you have a sae, sense to have more than a storage acility it’s probably his rst stop, which kind o or those items that we may need in the deeats its purpose. A lot o times the places event o a terrorist attack, civil unrest, or that are right in ront o your nose are the government collapse and anarchy. least obvious places that someone will notice when looking or a stash. Beore you start prying up foorboards or cutting holes in your drywall, however, PUTTING EMPTY SPACE TO look at what you have and what you want WORK to stash. Make a list o what goods you want to hide and who you want to hide them First, you will need to have a basic knowlrom. Governments act oolish in times o edge o construction and carpentry as we get crisis, otentimes placing their citizens in urther along. As we go through the various greater harm by conscating weapons in an hiding places you may have available, rom attempt to reign in rampaging mobs. the more simple to the more complex, you will also need to be amiliar with the use All this does is put the average law-abid- o common tools – drills, saws, levels, etc. ing citizen in greater danger. We have a re- I you aren’t handy with these things, there sponsibility to our amilies and loved ones are books available rom your local building to protect them, regardless o government supply store or library that can help you. proscriptions. Don’t just go in and rip out a spot in your house. Careully plan and execute your various hides. Do a proessional job in building or remodeling your hide’s hide’s location. One hide done well is worth wor th ten done sloppily. sloppily. You have empty pockets o space all around you in your house. Tere is empty
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space inside urniture, light xtures, cabinets, curtain rods, walls, under stairwells, inside unused books, in attic spaces, in duct work – are you starting to get the picture? All these places can be utilized or hides.
Te legs o wooden urniture, like chairs or coee tables, can be drilled out, and the resultant cavity used as a hide. Your Your dining room table may be able to be tted on the underneath side with a shallow alse bottom that can be used to store a long lo ng rife or Modern soas and chairs can be upended, shotgun. the staples removed rom the abric, and easily t with hidden pockets on the in- While stereo speakers and televisions may side. An Arrow™ staple gun rom your local make good hiding places, these are the hardware store is all you need to reattach items that thieves steal rst. Tey may not the abric. Do a neat job that is undetect- be the best places to put jewelry or other able rom the original astenings. valuables. Look or hiding places in things that cannot be easily toted o or removed. While you’re in there, you can cut out cavities in the oam padding and put valu- I you think that humongous 72” televiables there. Just be sure to replace enough sion can’t can’t be taken, think t hink again. again . I came home padding over the goods to give the correct one day to nd my back door smashed in, eel i that area o the urniture is searched and my carpet and linoleum torn to shreds thoroughly. where thieves had drug my big 61” projection television across the foor and out the door.. Burglars can be pretty determined. (I door only they’d they’d put that determination to t o good use!) Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them Deuteronomy Deuteron omy 31:6 31: 6
Ashley Furniture sells tables that have a hinged lift top with a secret compartment underneath. You can look at these tables and get ideas about how you can modify your own furniture.
A hollowed out book in a library ull o books can be a pretty eective hide. Use no more than the middle third o the book or the hide and secure the stash to the pages
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keeps them accessible in the event o an emergency. Te hollow spaces behind kickplates on cabinets are also great places to store stu.
since one common way o seeing i books contain secret storage is to upend them and shake. I the thought o deacing a book makes you cringe, there are ake books available commercially that are hollowed out rom the t he actory. actory. Te empty cavity o a curtain rod is another place to store smaller items, as is i s your rerigerator. You can put credit cards inside o ood packages and reeze them, unless ood shortages make this a burglar’s rst take. Hiding your credit cards is advisable in case your house is broken into, but still
Gently pry them rom the cabinet and replace as careully. Te drawers in a module can all be shortened, and an access point made on the side. You You can hide larger objects behind the drawers. I the foors in your house are wooden foor joists over a basement or a crawl space, you can utilize the space in between the joists. Because the foor joists are part o the structural integrity o your home, under no circumstance should you cut these
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joists unless you have construction experi- holding a great deal o weight. Keep that ence and know where to cut and how to in mind when deciding what to put in this space. reinorce the span. I your foor joists are also part o the ceiling structure o a downstairs room, the upper side o the drywall that comprises the ceiling o the downstairs room will be visible. Tese sheets are held in place not only with screws, but by abutting sheets o dry wall. Tey are not structurally capable o
Te insulation in the attic space can be used as a hide. Be sure to wear long sleeves and gloves when handling berglass insulation. You You can slice berglass batt insulation through the center and place items in between the layers.
Interior wooden doors are usually hollow core. With a ew simple tools the top and bottom can be cut out and the inside space used or storage. Some doors have a berboard reinorcement on the inside, but this can easily be cut away and a cavity made.
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Loose ll insulation can be raked back and then replaced when you’ve placed your stash. When moving this insulation around, be sure you don’t block any eave or sot vents. Also be careul that you don’t step o the foor joists and all through the ceiling.
Use picture rames that hold pictures o the amily or diplomas to saely hide documents or cash. Any ramed object that has no value except to the amily will do. Don Don’’t keep all your cash or documents in rames however. Dierent types o hides are better so that i a burglar runs across one o your hides, he won’t necessarily be able to nd all o them.
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CHAPTER III ELABORATE HIDES
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laborate hides are those that utilize a must remember that the foor and ceiling little more creative and imaginative joists are an integral part o the structural places to store your goods. integrity o your your home. You cannot just cut and route any way that you want. Te MODIFYING FLOOR, CEILING, same is true with load and non-load bear AND WALL SYSTEMS ing walls. When you’re trying to determine where Te ollowing diagrams and charts will to make modications in your home, you help you when you begin remodeling.
Hide Your Guns MAXIMUM HOLE SIZES IN LOAD BEARING STUDS 2x4 2x6
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MAXIMUM HOLE SIZES IN NON-LOAD BEARING STUDS 2x4 2x6
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MAXIMUM HOLE SIZES IN FLOOR AND CEILING JOISTS 2x6 2x8 2x10 2x12
1 1/2 inch 2 3/8 inch 3 1/8 inch 3 1/2 inch
You can take advantage o the space around a stairwell with a cleverly concealed entryway door that looks like a bookcase. Te area under a stairwell that is usually reserved or a small closet still has plenty o dead space you can take advantage o.
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You can design a drop ceiling into a room, and use the dead space there as a place to hide things. Look at the picture to the right and see all the space that’s available.
ADDITIONAL CHOICES FOR HIDES Do you have a basement? Is your house built on a crawl space? I so, you can design dummy drain and vent pipes into your existing plumbing to use as hides. Even i your house is built on a slab, you can design and bury what will appear as a cleanout or two around the house. Just make sure that it ts in logically with landscaping and doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb.
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Are you a master gardener with a steaming compost pile in your back yard? Tis is also an excellent location or a hide. hide . Most people peopl e don’t don’t want to stick their hands in a rotting, smelly compost pile. Encase your stash in a section o capped PVC pipe and bury it under the compost heap, preerably a oot or two into the ground. While this is a short-term stash and not a true cache, you’ll still want to generously oil your weapon and wrap it in several layers o cloth.
You can also utilize an outdoor You ou tdoor gutter drain or a hide. Simply lit the lid, attach your stash to the side and close it back up. Most thieves are strictly intent on what’ what’ss inside your house, not what might be stored in the ground outside. Any kind o storm drainage system can be used this way.
Hide Your Guns KNOW YOUR LIMITATIONS What started the American Revolution? Was it the taxation policies o the Crown? Was it England’s arbitrary decision-making policies without the colonials’ input?
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Knowing that our leaders keep trying unceasingly to limit or ban the availability o rearms should give you pause. I they do come to conscate all weapons, our homes and our stashes, no matter how well planned and laid out, will not be able to be hidden or long. Tese stashes will hinder the common thie, but not a government intent on control.
While all o these contributed to the rusrus trated eelings o the colonists, it was the British attempt to disarm the colonials at Lexington that started our American But, i resistance was utile, Osama bin now. Historevolution. Te ounders o this country, Laden would be in custody by now. blessed with wisdom rom Almighty God, ry is replete with examples o small pockets army.. In recognized that an armed citizenry was a o resistance holding o a superior army ree citizenry, and so designed a Constitu- no way am I advocating armed rebellion. tion that would insure the right to keep All eorts to keep our undamental rights and bear arms or all uture generations o should be engaged at the government level, through the courts and through the elec Americans. tion o like-minded representatives. We were given the blessing o governing ourselves, through a republic with duly However, i history has taught us anyelected representatives. Bur like any man- thing, it’s that all kingdoms all. Tey may made creation, our government has allen rise up again in a dierent incarnation, but today’s prey to a special brand o elitism that be- all things come to an end. With today’s longs strictly to those in power. Tey voice technologies in metal detection and thertheir disdain or the common man and do mal imaging, should our government dewouldn’’t not attempt to hide their belie that the cide to conscate our weapons, it wouldn second amendment is an item o law nev- take long or be hard or them to do so. er intended or the regular citizens o this o that extent, weapons caching is a viable vi able country. alternative to handing over your weapons.
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CHAPTER IV WEAPONS CACHING
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espite our right to keep and bear is going to have to decide whether or not arms as guaranteed by the second to turn over his weapons to the authorities amendment o the Constitu- when they come knocking on his hi s door. tion, our government, rom its inception, has attempted to enact some orm o gun It’ It’ss all ver veryy well and romantic sounding to control aimed at say that they’ll get maintaining a tight your guns when rein on particular they pry them groups o people. rom your cold dead hands, but O course beore in reality we have the Revolutionbeen trained to ary War, it was the obey authority gBritish attempt to conscate weapons that ures and going out in a blazing gun battle led to the colonials’ demands or inde- is not something that most o us will do. pendence. Te sad but unortunate act is that we’ve gotten quite lazy, dependent on the courts Ater our republic was ormed, gun laws to interpret our Constitution or us and on were enacted or black slaves and reed- our government to provide or our needs. men so that they couldn’t rise up against the slave owners. Ater the Civil War, gun You do need to understand one thing laws were rewritten during Reconstruction i you are seriously considering caching to again limit blacks and poor whites rom your weapons you’re not doing it so that owning weapons. one ne spring morning you can unearth your shotgun and go turkey hunting. You oday our government targets the entire aren’t burying these guns to dig up later to civilian population with gun laws. Tese go skeet shooting or or target practicing. laws are no respecter o race, religion, or gender.. It may very well come to a point gender in the uture that the average gun owner Y You ou are storing against a uture day when
Hide Your Guns government breaks down because o terrorism or war. You are preparing or a day when calamity makes it necessary or you to protect yoursel and your amily against gangs and thugs intent on anarchy anarchy.. You will be burying your weapons so that You one day either you or uture generations can rise up against a tyrannical government and resist, by orce o arms i necessary. necessary. You should careully consider your course You in this matter. oday, while you still can, you should use every legal means to insure
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your Constitutional rights or you and your children. You You should not allow apathy to steal those reedoms that have been endowed by God. It is said that we are given the government that we deserve. I we want this republic to continue, then we are going to have to be bothered to be the constant deenders o our liberties, ever diligent to saeguard that which our ancestors spilled so much blood to establish, and guarding jealously what our husbands and wives, athers and mothers, and our sons and daughters die to deend to this day.
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HIDES VS. CACHES
Guns and ammunition were woven into the thatch o the huts that the Viet Cong It’s important that you understand that villagers lived in. Guns were ound in rice there is a dierence between a hide and a granaries, ammunition in bamboo poles. cache. Te hide is meant to secure your Arms and explosives were ound under valuables rom an unwanted intrusion but still keep them handily available. A cache is a long term storage device or goods that you may or may not need months or years down the road. A cache is not meant to be accessed unless it’s an emergency. Weapons caching has been one o the strategies used successully in two o the major wars ought in this century. I you are serious about surviving in a war-time environment, then you should study the tactics o the Viet Cong. Tey were able to smoldering cooking res, and in tunnels withstand the armies o two countries that dug under the huts. Te Viet Cong not only utilized their en vironment, they utilized weapons that had been lost at sea. Coastal reighters sunk by the Japanese during WWII were a gold mine o arms, ammunition, and explosives. Patient Viet Cong divers salvaged tons o armaments rom as ar down as 60 eet without the use o air tanks and as ar down as 90 eet with the use o a simple air hose. had superior arms and re power, power, and their Cemeteries were also a avorite place or victory was due in a large part to their abil- the Viet Cong to place a cache. Ground observers believe that by 1968 most o the ity to set up elaborate weapons caches.
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arms smuggled into the cities were by way o cons. Te Viet Cong were imaginative and industrious, taking advantage o not only their surroundings but their resources as well. You need to also look at your surroundings and resources to get the best eel o what can and cannot be accomplished.
CACHING STRATEGIES As you plan your caching strategies, you need to look at locations with the ollowing in mind: looko uts • Positions or lookouts • Landmark identication and placement • Accessibility • Concealment • Escape routes You will not be burying You bur ying anything in your own backyard. You are going to scout country roads, garbage dumps, abandoned buildings, caverns, ponds ... you get the picture. You want these weapons as ar away rom you as possible without losing them. Septic tanks and sewers are really not ideal places to store a cache any more. In drug raids conducted today, i there is a septic tank on the premises, it’s the rst place the authorities look. Gar-
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bage cans, garbage bins and wastebaskets guess where it’ i t’ss remotely remot ely located l ocated.. You’ You’re re goare also rst on the list o places that au- ing to have to stife the impulse to brag to thorities search when looking or what your ellow gun buddies about what you’re you’re they consider “condoing. Loose lips traband” weapons. sink ships. Ideally your You need to put cache site should your cache in a place have surround where you can use ings where you can identiying landplace lookouts to marks as well as a watch or uninvited GPS system and a guests while you’re compass to locate it. concealing or digTis is a very imporging up your cache. tant step. Your cache However, with modern night vision is no good i you can’t nd it. scopes and thermal imaging techniques a lookout is superfuous i you’re trying to Your cache should be accessible without evade the auhaving to bypass thorities. I security meathey’ve got sures or withyou on their out you having radar, the to explain to a likelihood ton o passersby o a lookout what you’re doorewarning ing digging in you is pretty that fower bed slim. with a 10 oot auger. As ew people as possible Concealment should know is another acabout your tor you should cache. Fewer still should even be able to be planning out. You should take pictures
Hide Your Guns o your cache site BEFORE you start the hiding process so that you can return it to the condition it was in beore you started. A well-thought out plan that is executed with perection will be more successul than a plan that’s fying by bootstraps and a prayer praye r. Your cache site Your si te should also allow you more than one escape route in case your position is compromised. Don’t ever put yoursel in the position o being cornered. Your Your cache site should be able to include several dummy sites that you can place misleading trails that will hopeully throw any tracker or snoop o the scent o your real cache.
URBAN CACHING CHALLENGES Tose who live in the city ace caching challenges that are unique. Teir rural caching cousins have many more choices in available sites. While not impossible to accomplish, you’re going to have to be that much more inventive and prepared with your cache sites. Abandoned buildings are one prospect. You Y ou can nd a dark, quiet corner where you can remove some blocks or tile to create an improvised vault. Remember, Remember, i the place is nasty enough (you’re going to have to get over your own revulsion) most people will avoid it like the plague.
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As with a rural r ural cache, it’s it’s best not to put all your eggs in one basket. Spread your cache over several areas so that i one o ne is discovered by accident you still have access to the rest o your stu. Again, the threat o discovery is why it’s best to put weapons that can’t be traced to you in your cache.
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CHAPTER V PREPARING A CACHE
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ou’re going to need to prepare Anything up to 50 pounds qualies your cache careully and with orehere i you deem it valuable. thought. You’ll need to determine the contents, the materials, and the assem- ry to think about what you will need i bly o your caches. Tere are our classes o the nearest store is miles away and you have items that can be considered or a cache: no power. Now go through your • P r o h i b lists and deterited items mine which o things like -things - those items re weapons, ally needs to be orged I.D., cached in longsilencers, term storage or etc. i they can be • Items that hidden above may be- ground or stored come unregularly. attainableintheeventofacom pleteeconomicbreakdown-- things pleteeconomicbreakdown Ater you’ve compiled your lists, go like bullets, reloading equipment, through each item and mark it with an “S” smokeless powder, hand tools, or storage, “H” or hide, and “C” or cache. medicines, oodstus, candles, raDecide which o your items will be needed dios, etc. on short notice (like guns, ammunition, in• Itemsthatneed Itemsthatneedtoremain toremainasecret asecret ormation about other caches, shovels and - like inormation on the various so orth.) caches you have, documents that Group your items or similar needs - or can be used to nd you, etc. example, keep your bullets, primers and re• Itemsthatcanbeeasilyhiddenor loading equipment in the same cache (alstolen - gold, silver, money, amthough your primers will need to be sepaily heirlooms, address books, etc. rated rom your black powder to prevent a
Hide Your Guns possible explosion in your cache). ry to distribute the weight and size o your items amongst all your caches. Once you’ve grouped everything together, count up the number o caches, how you’re going to store them, and the types o containers and storage containers you’re going to need.
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trate all your valuables in one place. ry to get a good balance b alance here - you’ yo u’re re not a human hum an backhoe and you’re going to have to take your physical limitations into account. Tere are various levels o caches and your needs will determine which you employ. But having both o them is necessary i you’re truly preparing or a day that you might need to hide or can no longer go back home.
Now is the time to decide whether you want to go through Te survival cache with this or not. is meant to assist Once you’ve shelled you i you’ve been out the money or cut o rom your the materials needmain source o suped, it’d it’d be wasteul waste ul to plies and you need not ollow through something until you can get back back to it. with your plan. It’s best to make up smaller caches spread Tis cache will have a couple o days worth over a wider wide r area. You You don’t don’t want to t o concenconc en- o immediate-need items like oodstus, a
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military rst-aid kit, and a weapon with a tablets, and MREs. Including several hunew days worth o ammunition. dred dollars worth o cash in i n here would be prudent - in 10 and 20 dollar denominaTe E & E cache (Escape and Evasion) tions. will have a complete getaway kit in addition to a pistol or olding-stock rife r ife and ammu- Everything in this kit should t into a nition. Te E small back& E cache is pack with the meant to be exception o well hidden the rife. You but able to be can buy a hair grabbed up at coloring kit a moment’s at Wal-mart notice. You’ll but you’ll be have stu to best served treat injuries to get your in this cache, rst-aid kit as well as rom a miliitems to use to tary surplus change your store. Tese appearance kits contain such as scismore usable sors and hair items or true dye, water survival meapuriications sures.
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DIFFERENT PACKS FOR YOUR tion medications have a limited shel lie, so maintenance medications should probably SURVIVAL SURVIV AL CACHE C ACHE not be cached long-term. lo ng-term. You You may want to You’ll need dierent types o packs to include vacuum sealed pouches o multistore in a cache. You You are more amiliar with vitamins, B-complex vitamins, C vitamins, your own needs and may want to change and zinc. Tese are the most eective when up some o these items or make your own dealing with mild colds and a lack o adequate nutrition. Vacuum sealing them will unique packs. keep the oxygen level down and deterioraMilitary surplus stores and web sites have tion o the pills at bay. the medic surgical instrument kits and the QuikClot First Response sponges. Surviv- In addition to these packs, you can also alist and hiking and camping resources can design packs or tools, communication also hook you up with other rst aid sup- equipment, deense, and items or barterplies you may want to store. Most prescrip- ing.
The Medical Pack
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PIPE CACHE MATERIALS
• Must be able to resist the crushing orces o dirt • Must be resealable
Because o the advances in technologies today,, the cacher has a much larger array o today materials to choose rom than in previous generations. Te burial containers must Te last item is pretty important because take three things into account however: you may need to access your cache in an • Must be impervious to moisture emergency and being able to reseal it will or water be necessary.
Hide Your Guns Since most caches are put in the ground in a vertical position it’s best to use standard plastic plumbing pipe or PVC. It’s also known as DWV pipe - Drain, Drai n, Waste, Waste, Vent Vent pipe. Tere are several types o DWV pipe. 4-inch pipe and under comes in a thin-walled type and a thicker wall called Schedule 40. 6-inch diameter pipe and above comes in Schedule 40 and Schedule 80. Schedule 40 pipe is what you will want to use or your cache material. Schedule 80 is very expensive and there’s no appreciable benet to using it. Schedule 40 pipe is more than adequate or your needs. In addition to your pipe material, you’ll need end caps, PVC primer, PVC glue, common lube grease, a small drill-bit (about 1/8”), and silicone caulk to build your cache tube. You can use regular end caps on both ends o your tube or you can use a threaded tting on one end. I you use a threaded tting, you’ll need plumber’s efon tape to wrap the threads o the male end cap.
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A 4-inch diameter pipe will hold ammu- Allow the primer to dry and then coat nition and magazines. A minimum 6-inch both suraces generously with PVC glue. diameter pipe is needed or guns, and while PVC glue melts the plastic so that when actu ally weld to8 inches is better, it’s also more expensive. the two suraces join, they actually Te 8-inch pipe is twice the cost per oot o gether once the glue has evaporated. 6-inch pipe, as are the ttings that go on it. Adapters and screw-in plugs or the 6-inch With one continuous motion, push and pipe are common, but are not available twist, turning the cap into place on the or the 8-inch pipe. End caps run about pipe, and hold. Tis twisting motion makes $15.00 each or the 6-inch pipe, whereas sure that all suraces o the pipe and cap are the 8-inch endcaps will run you around well-coated with glue, removes air bubbles, $40.00 apiece. It ultimately depends on the and insures a bond. Hold the cap in place or about about 15 seconds. Tis is the bottom size cache you want to build. end o the cache tube. For instance, a 60-inch section o 8-inch pipe will hold two ull-sized rifes, our as- Do not use a ast-set glue when gluing sault rifes, our or ve pistols, dozens o the components o your tube together. You magazines, and loads o ammunition. A need time to make sure that the caps and/ 60-inch length insures that even the lon- or adapters are in place beore the bondgest semi-auto weapon will t in the tube, ing process is complete. and that the cache contents will settle to the bottom urther away rom a possible scan rom a metal detector.
BUILDING YOUR CACHE TUBE You will take You t ake one o your slip-on end caps and glue it to one end o the tube. Prime the outer surace o the pipe and the inner surace o the cap. Te primer removes dirt and grease, and sotens the plastic to prepare it or gluing. Female Adapter with Screw-In Plug
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compressing whatever air is in the pipe. Sometimes this air pressure will equalize, and sometimes it won’t. Te cap is going to want to come o. Te only way to avoid that is to drill a vent hole in the top o the cap that you will ll with silicone caulk beore burying the tube. However, don’t drill a vent hole unless it’s absolutely necessary.
BUILDING A BUCKET CACHE
I you’re building an 8-inch cache or just Generally a cache is prepared with a ocus want to use a slip on end cap or your 6-inch on the time rame the items will be in the ground. Pipe caches can last indenitely. Te bucket cache is designed to last three to ve years. Te bucket cache is airly simple and easy to make. Tis stash won’t contain more stu than a person could carry i needed, but it’s mainly to provide enough minimal comort or a person to stay in one place or a ew nights. You’d be able to get clean, eat a ew good meals, have clean water, and get a decent night’s sleep.
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tube, then be prepared prepared to drill about a 1/8 inch hole in the end o your second end cap. When you put a solid end cap on the other end o your tube, you’re you’re going to be
Te bucket cache should have enough packed that it will keep a person going or a ew days without the need to resupply. Tese caches are good to plant along an escape route that you would devise to t o get you out o an area ater a natural disaster, civil unrest, a terrorist attack, or the breakdown o government.
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You should assume that you would er ring snaps onto the bucket like a regular have already packed a bag with some ex- lid, and the inner ring screws in. tra clothes and hopeully brought along a blanket or sleeping bag. Each cache along Te bucket has many uses, not the least your escape route should provide you with o which is holding all the contents o your essential tools and survival sur vival items that you’ll you’ll cache. However, once you unearth it, the bucket can be used to haul water, used as a need to make it. wash basin, even used as a toilet. O course the rst thing you’re going to start o with is the bucket . You’ll need to It can be used to gather ood like berries, mushrooms, or other edible items that you orage. It can be used to keep ood oo d rom the reach o hungry animals. Fresh meat placed in the bucket and then secured in a running stream is considered a primitive but acceptable rerigeration system. You’ll want a poncho in your cache items. A standard military poncho has bungee cord attached to the corners so that you can use it or a makeshit shelter i the need arises. It’s also useul in bad weather.
get a gasketed lid, one with an O-ring seal to make it air-tight. Tey also make a twopiece screw-in lid that’s called a Gamma You’ll want at least one knie in your kit. Seal™ like the one pictured below. below. Te out- You should have a pocket knie with you at all times, but at least one skinning knie
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should be packed in your cache. Remember Remember,, Don’t take any chances that water that water will be this is a survival cache - most likely you’ll readily available. Pack about a hal-dozen be hunting or a signicant amount o your bottles o bottled water. Also pack water pack water ood and you need a way to prepare it. purication tablets so that you can make use o any water supply you run across. I would also recommend some kind o knie sharpening kit kit - either a small Lan- oilet paper should be a staple in each sky™ kit or a plain stone. You’ll want to cache that you plant along your proposed keep your knie blades honed at all times so escape route. Tere’s nothing more miserthat you’re always prepared in a hunting or able than trying to “clean up” with only the sel-protection sense. elements o nature at your disposal. Pack a ashlight o some sort. A Mini- Along with your personal hygiene supMaglite® is a good light, and you can buy plies, don d on’’t orget to pack soap pack soap and a toothone with LED lights now. Tey may be a brush. It seems so simple and the one item that wouldn’t be neglected, but you’d be surprised how many people leave out these items. Bar soap is recommended, preerably one o the old-time lye soaps that are still available. You’ll be able to use this soap as a shampoo alternative without gunking your hair up with chemicals. Don’t orget some antiperspirant as antiperspirant as well.
little more expensive on the ront end, but they’re durable and will withstand harsh conditions. Be sure to pack extra pack extra batteries or whatever fashlight or other equipment you pack.
Hide Your Guns You’re You’ re going goi ng to want to t o have MREs (meals, ready-to-eat) packed in your cache. MREs are mini-survival kits kit s all in themselves. You You can purchase them at military surplus outlets, or there are scads o web sites that you can order them rom.
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ly rom each other. Te oil rom the pistol can break down the primers in the ammunition, and then your ammo is worthless.
You can build a small cache tube or the ammunition that will t in the bucket or use heavy plastic bags. I you use plastic While hopeully you grabbed several bags, it would be good to use a vacuum changes o clothes on your way out, you sealer to close them. should also pack a ew changes o underclothes. It would also be good to have a Packing the bucket is simple. Make sure washcloth or two in your cache. Nothing the bucket is clean and seals well. I the lid is more morale-busting than dirty under- doesn’t have an O-ring seal you can use sili wear and a sweaty, stinky body. cone caulk as a last resort but you’ll have a heck o a time trying to get the lid o when Other items that you may nd useul in you nally retrieve your cache. a bucket cache would be a drinking cup, eating utensils, gloves, string or rope, rope, Put the water bottles on the bottom so and o course a rst aid kit . that i they leak, they won’t get everything else wet. Ten pack everything else into the And o course last, but not least, you may bucket and place a desiccant packet (sili want to pack a pistol and ammunition i cone gel) on top to absorb any moisture you’ll you ’ll be unable to get to one o your weap- than might condensate inside the bucket ons caches in a reasonable time. time. A bucket is while buried. not the ideal rearms cache container, but you can make it work. PREPARING AND PACKING
YOUR WEAPONS CACHE You’ll want to clean and oil your pistol well. ry to avoid Cosmoline in this situa- Once you have your cache tube built, tion. Cleaning the Cosmoline o a pistol in you’ll you’ll want to prepare your weapons or primitive conditions will be challenging to storage. ry to pick weapons that have say the least. Use a good lube oil. little wood or have a synthetic stock. Military type weapons have little wood that Pack the pistol and ammunition separate- will deteriorate and hence, store well.
Hide Your Guns Te rst thing you’ll want to do is clean and grease your weapons well. While many people swear by Cosmoline as the grease o choice to cache weapons, cleaning it o the weapon in primitive conditions is again challenging and not necessary. Tere are many types o lithium-based oils with rustinhibitors that can be used to oil down your weapon. Many companies manuacture a cotton picker spindle grease that is almost liquid at room temperature that’s excellent or this application. You can check with a arm equipment dealership or order it on the internet.
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parts and that the military uses or storage o metal items. It is impregnated with chemicals to prevent corrosion and rust. Suppliers or this and other items mentioned in this book are listed in the back in the resource section. You should build a smaller cache tube or You your ammunition and place it in the larger tube. Tis will keep your ammunition separate rom any contact with grease that might destroy your primers.
You need to be careul to not get grease in your laser or telescopic sights. Te same You can wrap your weapons in a plastic goes or your scope. It’s not recommended sleeve or additional protection. protecti on. You You can buy that you remove your scope or storing your rolls o plastic sleeving material that is 10 weapon because it may be impossible or or 12 inches wide, 3 you to rezero it in to 4 mil thick. While later on. However it would be great i i you’re going to you have the means remove the scopes to vacuum seal these rom your weapsleeves, it’s not necons or storage, essary. build a cache tube or those as well Another material and store in the you can wrap your same larger cache guns in is VCI paper tube. ry not to (Volatile and Vapor disassemble your Corrosion Inhibiting weapon any more Paper). It’s the same than that. It’s easy paper that is used to lose parts and to wrap automotive then your weapon
Hide Your Guns will be useless. Even more importantly, don’t store the parts rom one gun in separate caches. I one cache is discovered and lost, your gun parts in the other cache tube are just junk metal. You may want to make a wooden disc the same diameter as the cache tube with a long dowel rod that is placed in the bottom o the cache tube. Since cache tubes may be dicult at best or impossible at worst to dig up, this would insure that any small item in the tube could be raised and retrieved.
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be sure to steer clear o any that have a salt content, like calcium chloride or example. Tese chemicals are highly corrosive to metal. Generously grease the section o tube the end cap will sit on. Grease your end cap generously as well and twist into place. I the cap will not stay on, drill a small hole in the top to relieve the air pressure and then seal with silicone caulk. I you’re using a threaded cap, wrap the threads with efon tape and then screw in tightly,, making sure the tube is sealed well. tightly I your cache tube will be buried or a very long period o time (10-30 years) glue your cap in place. Te same goes i your cache site is in a hostile environment such as underwater or in a swamp. Don’t load your cache tube with more weight than you can pick up since once you’ve selected your site and have prepared it or the cache, you’ll have to tote it to the hole to place it. Under no circumstances should you load your cache tube at the site. Tat’s just asking or trouble and discovery.
Pack your cache tube. Use at least two ounces o silica gel in a 60-inch tube to absorb any moisture. While there are other desiccants out there,
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CHAPTER VI CONCEALING A CACHE
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ou have your supplies and weap- ing or a location to bury a weapons or E & ons all lined up, your cache tubes E (Escape and Evasion) cache is: or buckets are prepared, and you’re • Landmarks ready to nd a place to bury them. How do • Accessibility you start? • Security
First you need to look at your surround- Instead o hoong it, checking out cache ings and expand outward. I you live in sites by sight alone, get a copy o the latest the city in an topographiapartment, cal map rom you might be your state or able to utilize the ederal a fower bed Department in the como the Interior plex to place that covers a an emergen30-40 mile cy hide. For radius o your those o you surrounding rural dwellarea. ers, a place in some nearby Learn to be woods may come amiliar be where with orientyou want to ing yoursel conceal your with a map rst o several and compass. travel packs. Te military has reprint manuals that will help you. Tree main points to consider when scop- Amazon.com is also another resource or
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narrows your secure cache sites considerably. A police search may look or a cache on every acre o land you own but not two armhouses down. However, i you’ve buried it 10 paces over rom an old unique tree trunk in a national park, a treasure hunter will have a eld day. day. Obvious, single, or huPlat maps rom the tax assessors oce o ce are man-made landmarks should be avoided. also useul in showing land ownership and surveying landmarks or the area you’re you’re in- ACCESSIBILITY terested in or storing your cache. Using your topographical maps, nd arLook or orest or wilderness areas under eas that have access by little used country private ownership, rocky or mountainous roads. You’re going to want to stay within terrain, land adjoining swampland, or state 30-40 miles o your home, but at least 10 and ederal recreation areas that aord a miles out rom any populated area. little privacy. Pick three or our areas that you could possibly work in as unobserved Approach each site or a cursory inspection, looking or people or cars that may as possible. become too interested in what you’re doing. Tis security check is necessary or the LANDMARKS successul implementation o your cache When considering where to put a stash, plan. Once you’ve parked your car near a the hardest element to contend with are promising site, sit or a while and take note You are landmarks. All humans need some type o o pedestrian or automobile trac. You landmark to orient themselves to their sur- going to drive airly close to your cache site you’ll not only be toting in equipment roundings. reasure hunters have learned since you’ll this lesson well, and ocus their eorts on to dig your hole, but will be carrying your areas within the vicinity o old ence rows, cache in as well. old tree trunks, gazebos, old wells, lawn ornaments, old armhouses and the crum- Once you have ound a promising site, look at the road types on all our sides o bling remains o chimneys. the section you’re considering. Does it ap You’re beginning to get the picture. Tis pear to be that these roads are well-traveled?
additional books on the subject. Practice your map reading and compass exercises BEFORE you head out to the deep woods or get stuck in the boonies. Most o the time these areas are remote enough that cell phone coverage is spotty. spotty.
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Does your potential site have well-tracked Another thing you should be careul hunting or hiking paths that could possibly about is knowing who owns the land you’re expose you and your cache? caching on. I you bury your goods on land that’s owned by a paper mill, will their Park your car as ar in as possible and get equipment unearth or destroy your stash out. Don’t slam the door (it’s good practice when they start harvesting trees? Is is posso that you learn to be more silent in your sible that the land is in an estate that will activities). Find a tree, sit down, and just be sold to a timber company? Will snow listen or any problem noises or about 10 totally wipe out all your landmarks come minutes. ake notes o where you’re at, get winter? some compass readings, and mark everything down on your map. Tink o all the worst-case scenarios that can happen to and in the site you’ve choSECURITY sen. Only once you’re satised that conditions are ne or can be handled should you Te best security sites are going to be at begin the steps needed to bury you cache. least a hal-mile away rom your place o work, home, common traveling areas, or TOOLS any land you may own. Any plot o yours up to twenty acres will be searched to a What tools will you need to successully depth o about 10 eet i the authorities bury a cache? Post-hole diggers and a shovbecome suspicious o you. Anything but el may get you started, and they’ll be good the lowest security cache (a bucket cache) or cleaning out the hole, but they won’ won’t be should be buried outside the places your easy to use to dig a hole as deep as you’re own or requent. Te upside is that because going to need to bury a 60-inch tube. Reo modern materials, nearly any location member member,, you want at least a oot o ot o dirt on can be utilized or a hide. top o your cache. Once you nd a site that you like, don’t Tere is a tool called a post auger which is go out and start digging yet. You should used by armers and nurseries to dig holes survey the area or a while. Is the place you or trees and ence posts. It’s made by Seylike in bottomland that foods in a simple mour Manuacturing Company and the shower? Is it clay soil or sot moist sandy only place I’ve been able to nd it is on loam that you’ll be digging into? Amazon.com. It’s called an Iwan Auger and
Hide Your Guns it is the adjustable model. Te nice thing about this auger is that you can easily extend the pipe handle by adding a union and an additional piece o pipe so that you can reach as ar as you need to dig your hole. Te deeper you go, the harder the digging gets, so plan on being there a while. I you’re working in clay soil, try spraying the cutting edges with silicone. It will help shed the clay more easily.
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to hold all the lose dirt that you auger out o your hole. Te whole point o such careul attention to location and trac is so
that your cache c ache is not no t discovered. However, However, i you leave the area looking like a skidder came through there, then you haven’t accomplished anything but making the area look suspicious. You must put everything Tere are power augers made today that back so that it looks like the earth was nevare hand-held models and can make your er disturbed. job much easier. Te only problem is the noise. I you use a power tool in a ar-o You’re going to want some anti-intrusion location, you’re going to attract attention alarms so that while you’re digging and distracted someone can’t inadvertently walk to yoursel. up on you. Tis can be anything that, i You’re going to need a tarp o some kind disturbed, will alert you to someone or
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something in the area. Tink in terms o big deal with modern metal detectors. At trip wires and some notiying noisemaker noi semaker.. 200 eet the area to be searched becomes 125,600 square eet - again not a big deal I you really want to keep people away with modern equipment and a team o searchers. However, move out 1,000 eet and the area to be searched becomes 3.14 million square eet - almost 71 acres! I you scatter decoy metal like nuts and bolts, old cans, nails, and other scrap metal in this area, the searchers would soon tire o alse readings and move on. Conventional metal detectors are sophisticated equipment. Tey will nd a rearms cache three eet underground all the time. Working harder to avoid discovery is rom you while you are digging, you can not the answer. Working smarter is. buy some imitation skunk scent that you can sprinkle liberally in a large radius around the area you’ll be working in. It’ll keep people away, away, but whether you can stay in the area is another story. Remember, distance rom the areas you live in, work in, play in, or requent is your biggest asset in keeping your cache hidden. I you place your cache 100 eet out rom any o these areas, searchers will have to cover 31,400 square eet in order to thoroughly search or your stu. Tis is not a
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CHAPTER VII METAL DETECTORS
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hile metal detectors are not the would make a metal detector sing. However,, that same cache tube buried vertically only equipment that can be ever used to erret out a cache, they gives a much smaller surace area to read. A are one o the most problematic. Metal de- gun on its side has almost a square oot o tectors send out an energy eld similar to surace area showing. Tat same gun muzzle radio waves. Te eld reacts to any conduc- pointing up has the surace area o a quartive substance, usually metal, but also min- ter. When you place your cache ar out o eral deposits and even salty wet ground. your sphere o infuence, when you bury it Te degree o the response is related to the with the least amount o surace area showconductivity o the material scanned and ing, when you leave your cache site looking as i the soil has never been disturbed, the surace area o the material. and you pick your site with either isolation Te cruder models o the 40’s and 60’s or diculty o detection oremost in your could be outwitted with strategically placed mind, then you’ve increased your chances exponentially.. decoy metal. oday’s advanced computer- o not being detected exponentially ized models, however, allow better trained operators to disregard trash. Tey automat- Again, a matter o degrees is what sepaically compensate or changes in ground rates the successul cacher rom the one just conditions as they move over an area. An- begging to be discovered. imal-excrement decoys no longer have any HOW METAL DETECTORS WORK aect on the newer models. Tey can ne tune their units to nd a penny on its edge 18 inches underground. Tat’ss why successul Tat’ successu l caching is a matter o degrees and smart thinking, not the bull-inthe-china-shop approach o scattering decoy metal and urinating all over the place.
When you know the principles o how something works, then you can use that understanding and apply it to other situations. By that token, when you understand how a metal detector works, you can devise better ways o avoiding discovery discovery..
Your cache tube, buried horizontally, Metal detectors use one o three technolo-
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Very Low Frequency VLF is also known as induction balance. Tis is probably the most popular type o metal detector today. A VLF detector has two coils - a transmitter coil and a receiver coil.
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How a VLF metal detector dierentiates between metals is called phase shiting. Phase shiting is the dierence in timing between the requency o the detector’s coils and the requency o the object scanned. Phase shiting gives VLF metal detectors a capability called discrimination. Because the phase shit is dependent on the conductivity o the material scanned, the trained operator can tell what classication o metals the scanned object belongs to. Some o them even allow the operator to program the detector to disregard certain signatures that belong to things like bottle caps or nails.
Te transmitter coil sends out the electronic pulse thousands o times a second, and the receiver coil, acting like an anten- Pulse Induction na, picks up the requencies coming rom the target objects in the ground. PI technology uses powerul short bursts o energy through the detector’s detector’s coils. It baTe electromagnetic eld generated pulses sically creates an echo chamber between the back and orth between detector and object. detector and the scanned object. Te higher As the detector’s detector’s eld is pulsing downward, the conductivity o the object scanned, the the object’s object’s eld is pulsing upward. Te de- longer the “echo” “echo” o the energy pulse lasts. tector can determine how deep the object is based on the strength o the magnetic eld PI based detectors are not very good at it generates. discriminating objects scanned because the various echo lengths are not easily separatTe arther below the surace the object ed. However, However, they are useul in an environis, the weaker the eld. Beyond a certain ment that has highly conductive material depth, the magnetic eld o the object is so - or example, salt water. Tey can also de weak that the receiver coil o the unit can tect metal much deeper in the ground than no longer pick it up. other types o detectors.
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tive and as such not something in the budget o every ever y local law enorcement agency. agency.
BFO technology is the very basic o metal detection systems. Tis system has two coils I you have kept yoursel o the radar as - one in the head and one inside the control much as possible, then the chances o law box. Each coil is connected to an oscillator enorcement coming ater you diminishes. that creates thousands o pulses o energy each second. As these pulses pass through Metal Detector Deterrents the coils, it creates radio waves. o some extent, minerals and salts in the As this detector passes over a metallic soil can limit the eciency and ability o object, the magnetic eld that’s created between the two coils creates a magnetic eld around the object. Tis magnetic eld intereres with the requency o the radio waves and sends a signal that metal has been ound. Tese types o detectors are low-cost and can even be built at home. However, they don’t provide the level o accuracy and control that VFI or PI detectors oer.
Alternate Means o Detection While there are other means o detection metal detectors. Some areas o the United that geophysicists can use like electromag- States have layers o black sand that’s comnetic sensors and gravitational sensors, at a time o societal upheaval that would make accessing your caches necessary, it’s unlikely that those means would be used to nd a ew guns in a pipe “somewhere”. Even the ground penetrating metal detectors that can see 80 eet or deeper are very cost prohibi-
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posed o nickel-iron that’s hard or metal can do to swing the pendulum back in your avor.. Te rst one is the rule o o squares. detectors to penetrate. In act, most o the avor western United States has small deposits o black sand, and these would be good sites The Rule o Squares to check out when you’re doing a prelimiTe rule o squares is a simple mathematinary site-nding expedition. cal principle that says when you double the In northern Wisconsin and Michigan, distance rom a given point, you have our iron in the soil will wreak havoc with metal times as much area involved. detector readings. As was stated in the last chapter, i you However, the clay soil ound in Alabama move out 100 eet rom your sphere o inthere’s 31,400 square eet o dirt to and Mississippi may make detection easier. fuence, there’s cover.. 200 eet results in 125,600 square square Tese soils are more water absorbent and cover eet, almost three acres. At 1,000 eet rom your sphere, searching becomes almost hopeless. Tat’s 3.14 million square eet and over 70 acres o dirt to be searched. Once you’ve got that big o a space to search, decoy metal can be used. 50 pounds o sixteen-penny nails scattered in the area would be very conusing to say the least.
Other Places o Difculty You should always try You tr y to locate your cache in an area that is dicult or impossible to retain that moisture. Water is an excellent search - where stray dumping, mechanical work or burying once occurred. conductive material. It seems like the odds are stacked against A cemetery is actually one o the best being able to successully cache your weap- places to bury a cache. I you have access to cemetery, tery, even better. better. Most are open ons. But there are a ew more things you a rural ceme
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to the public and can be accessed by car. also excellent cache sites. You can use ponds, streams, marshes and lakes. Just be sure to glue your end caps on Te best way to avoid metal detectors is your tubes or these conditions. to place your cache as ar away rom you as possible, in a dicult to search place, and Do try to avoid reservoirs where the U.S. keep a low prole. Loose lips are your worst Corp o Engineers controls the depth o the enemy. water or food control. I you have a season o drought, the reservoir can dry up and anything can be ound, most likely by accident. Some years ago, the food gates were opened on a reservoir in my area to drain the lake and they ound the car and body o a person that had been missing or over 20 years. ie your cache to the docks or boat ramps in places like this, and you run a high risk o someone else discovering it. You can place your cache in a place that is impossible to search - or instance, grain silos, in piles o coal, gravel, or under pig pens. Since metal detectors don’t work well in close proximity to large amounts o steel, a junk yard or old homestead and arm site would be excellent. Lots o old arms still have rusting tractors and implements sitting on them. Closed garbage dumps are
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CHAPTER VIII STAYING BELOW THE RADAR
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uring WWII, millions were drated or volunteered or military service. Most o these guys didn’t know how to act, what to say, or what to write that would prevent disclosure o sensitive inormation to the enemy. From this recognition came the motto “Loose lips might sink ships.” It also led to the creation o a multi-point memo o prohibited subjects that the military passed out to all the enlisted men. Some o those points are still good advice or today. 1. Don’t write down military inormation on troops - location, strength, material, or equip(Don’’t write writ e down the locament. (Don tions or contents o your caches. I you must write something down
to remember where your hides are, put it in code orm and scatter the inormation among random locations. Tis insures that one piece o the inormation will not give anyone enough knowledge to uncover your caches.) 2. D o n ’ t mention plans and orecasts or orders or uture operations. (Don’t talk about what you’ll do i the government comes to your house. Don’t talk about how they’ll pry your gun rom your cold dead hands. You know you won’t go down without a ght. Don’t broadcast intent that can later be used against you.)
Hide Your Guns 3. Silence means security...[L]oo security...[L]oose se talk is direct delivery to the enemy. (I you want to swagger around, bragging about your “preparations,” then by all means do so, but with the understanding that you might as well have just laid your guns out in the ront lawn and invited law enorcement or the thugs down the street to come get them.)
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I you don’t want people to know that much about you, then don’t show them all your toys. What you do in your spare time denes who you are. I you’re a hunter, then by all means share your love o the sport with your buddies by talking about recent trophies, or the .270 rife you had a hard time sighting in beore the last buck you bagged. But don’t get into a show-andtell situation about every long rife, shotgun, and pistol that you have.
Okay, you’ve Okay, you’ve been able abl e to acquire acqu ire a MiniTis doesn’t just apply to weapons. It 14 or an AKapplies to 47 that you wealth and want to cache. cash as well. But beore you When you put it into your parade your tube, you show valuables in it to everybody public, you that comes come under to the house. public scru Why? I your tiny. You put main goal is to yoursel in a be prepared or whatever breakdown in society may come, position o being looked at under a microintentio n why do you want to put your assets on disdi s- scope. Even i your buddy has no intention o stealing rom you, the bonehead he talks play?
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to at work or the bar he requents may not one at night. 70% o burglars will use some have such inhibitions. He may try to live orce to enter a residence, but most preer door.. vicariously through you by bragging about an open window or door his riend with all the toys. While you may have built your saes, hidey holes, and reuge rooms, you really ARE YOU OFFERING AN want to stop the burglar beore he gets inINVITATION? side. Te rst step is to “harden “harden the target,” target,” More than 6 million American homes are or to make your home more dicult or burgled each year, about one every 15.4 the thie to enter. Garage and back doors seconds according to the FBI. Everyone is a provide more cover with the garage door target, and no one is immune. I you own a being the weakest point o entry. television, a computer, jewelry, or even exotic pets, you have something a thie wants. A burglar will look through your car or keys and valuI you own ables so keep weap on s, it locked even you’re an even i it’s inside the juicier target. garage. In addition: Most burglars are teenagers or • Use young adults solid core or under 25 years metal clad o age who live doors or all in or around entryways. your area and F r e n c h have noticed a doors are regular predictparticularly weak in a security sense. able pattern o your comings and goings. Tey’re Tey’ re looking or an easy target and small •Useheavy-dutyqualitydeadbolts stu that can easily be converted into quick quic k with a minimum 1” throwbolt. cash. Darkness is not necessary or burglars but privacy is. Most will choose an empty • Use heavy-duty doorknob sets house during the daytime over an occupied
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Glass paneled doors or glass sliding doors are another weak entry point. Sliding doors do not use locks but latch mechanisms. In older doors, this latch can easily be bypassed by liting the door up and o the track. Tere are numerous locking and barring devices or these doors. You should make or purchase one or any sliding glass door in your home. Windows are more oten let unlocked than doors. A burglar may choose your home simply by spotting an open window. Make
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sure to lock all windows beore you leave home. Display decals indicating an alarm system or a dog in high visibility windows and by yard signage. Tese are deterrents as well. Never leave a key to the house outside in an obvious or not-so-obvious place. Experienced burglars know all the places to look or these hidden keys. Instead, build a relationship o trust with a neighbor or relative and leave them a spare key to your house. Interior lights show that a house is occupied and active at night. A dark home night ater night tells people you’re either away on vacation or work a second or graveyard shit. A timer is an inexpensive i nexpensive way to keep lights on at night, preerably near ront and back windows with the curtains closed. Use these all the time whether you’re home or not to establish a pattern and routine. Tese same timers can be used to turn on television sets and radios to indicate a house is occupied. Make sure the exterior o your
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home is well-lit. Te new fuorescent spot- Ruby Ridge massacre? Randy Weaver, his lights enable you to operate outside security wie and children were isolationists, living lights or pennies on the dollar compared in a cabin with no electricity or public wato the halogen variety. variety. Any thie preers the ter source. What made them stand out so shadows where they can enter a home with- much that the FBI staged the raid that led out being spotted. On that same note, trim to three deaths? back shrubbery so that there’s no hiding place near the house. He joined a group. I you’re away on vacation, leave a car in your driveway or arrange or a neighbor to leave one there. Have them move it rom time to time. Arrange or the yard to be mowed and stop all newspaper and mail deliveries until you return.
STAY AWAY FROM GROUPS
I you want to stay below the radar o the government, don’t even think about adding your name to a membership roster in any group the government could term a ringe military group, a survivalist group, an unauthorized militia or a radical terrorist-type organization. Most groups, like civilian militias, might have hundreds o level-headed members, but it takes just one hot-head to bring the group and all its members down with him. Most people are ollowers, not leaders, and one belligerent know-it-all can hold sway over the majority.
I there is a cause you believe in then donate unds anonymously. Te FBI and AF routinely inltrate groups What was the one actor that led to the they consider ringe or radical. Tat guy tragic circumstances that culminated in the
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that seems to be your twin brother separated at birth in viewpoint, and acts like l ike your best riend (who you’re spilling all your secrets to) could just be a government agent waiting or the opportunity to arrest you or use you to get to other members. Remember – loose lips.
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CHAPTER IX A BIBLICAL RESPONSE TO SELF-DEFENSE, GUNS AND 2ND AMENDMENT RIGHTS
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n a Sunday evening in July o 1993, Charl van Wyk was sitting alone in a pew at St. James Church in Cape own, South Arica when terrorists entered and began lobbing grenades and shooting parishioners.
church that night would have perished had not Charl van Wyk returned re with the .38 special revolver he carried.
But...doesn’t the Bible say to turn the other cheek? Aren’t we supposed to love our neighbor, and give him our cloak and Eleven people died and ty-three people pay back evil with good? Yes, it does. and were wounded. However, hundreds more we should. But, as with all Scripture, care o the almost 1500 people attending the must be given to interpret passages not
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the daytime presumes that we can identiy and later apprehend the thie i he escapes and that we are not dealing with a liethreatening situation. • Proverbs 25:26 states “Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous person who gives way beore the wicked.” We alter beore the wicked when we do not actively deend ourselves, our loved ones, and innocents against an assailant.
Te Sermon on the Mount rom which Matthew 5:38-39 is taken - “You “You have heard that our athers were told, ‘Eye or eye and tooth or tooth.’ But I tell you not to stand up against someone who does you wrong. ere rei is sa adi die ere renc nce ebe betw twee een nre reve veng nge e On the contrary, i someone hits you on • e Vengeance is the excluthe right cheek, let him hit you on the let and resisting attack. Vengeance cheek too!” - deals with righteous personal sive domain o God and He has given that conduct. Jesus was showing that the author- authority to civilian government, not the ity o government to avenge criminal acts, individual. (Romans 12:19, Romans 13:4) i.e. punish evildoers, did not give author- Personal vengeance would entail stalking ity to the individual to t o take revenge. Christ the criminal down ater the threat to our was not teaching something dierent about lives was over. sel-deense than Scripture taught or didn’t didn’t God dis isn not otc con ontra tradi dict ctory orya and ndn nei eith ther er he say in the same sermon: “Don’t think • Go that I have come to abolish the Law or the are His commandments. Te Sixth ComProphets. I have come not to abolish but to mandment tells us “You shall not murder.” complete.” (Matthew 5:17) So what does Yet in the passages ollowing that commandment, God lays out situations where the Bible teach about sel-deense? it is perectly acceptable to protect onesel • Ex Exod odus us2 22: 2:22-3 3– –“I “If fa ath thie ief fca caug ught hti in n with lethal orce. Clearly this means, or the act o breaking in is beaten to death, it the individual, not that we should never is not murder; unless it happens ater sun- kill, but that we should not shed innocent rise, in which case it is murder.” One can blood. interpret rom this Scripture that a threat ntheN eNew ewT Tes esta tame ment ntwele welear arnth nthat at to our lives is to be met with deadly orce. • Inth Te prohibition against killing the thie in Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and or-
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ever. (Hebrews 13:8) Since Jesus and the emple, he harshly rebuked the religious Father are one (John 10:30), and God does leaders o his day with sarcasm and venomnot change (Malachi 3:6), then nothing in ous remarks. He was conrontational and the Old estament has been replaced or su- even rude in a modern, politically incorrect perseded. In act, Paul states in II imothy way way.. He stood toe to toe and eye to eye with 3:16-17 that all Scripture is or doctrine, the entire Sanhedrin, with Herod, and with instruction and correction. Understand Pilate. Tese are not the actions o a pacist that the Gospels, the Acts o the Apostles, or a coward. and the letters o the New estament had not been compiled at the time Paul wrote In Luke 22:36 we nd Jesus instructing this. Paul clearly was speaking o the Old his disciples to sell something, even their estament when making this pronounce- cloaks, to purchase a sword – a weapon. weapon. A ment. Milquetoast caricature o Jesus o Nazareth is a modern-day construct that should be In act, this pacist Christ gure doesn’t soundly denounced in our churches. Jesus gave his lie reely. He submitted to death on the cross or the sake o salvation and to redeem mankind. He is the essence o love and mercy. However, make no mistake – God is a warrior and he ghts or his people. We are instructed to protect our amilies and to see to their needs. (I imothy 5:8). However, it goes even arther than that. Te parable o the Good Samaritan shows that we are responsible, i in a position to do so, or the care and protection o our neighbors. Jesus clearly shows the principle show up anywhere in the Gospels or the o neighborly and just action in this story, New estament. Te Jesus o the Bible condemning those who stood passively by raged against the money lenders in the or ignored the victim.
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Te sword o today is the gun, and we are Scripture also shows us the relation- already seeing entire countries awash in the ship between a nation’s righteousness and blood o people killed who had no means its willingness and ability to employ sel- to deend themselves. Now these same deense. For example, countries, through in Judges 5:8 we the United Nations see that the people and treaties passed, were oppressed dur want to take away ing times o apostasy the Second Amend when “Tey chose ment rights o new gods when war Americans. Unor was at the gates. Was tunately, with one there a shield or spear party in complete to be seen among Iscontrol o Conrael’s orty thousand gress and the White men?” House, they may be able to do just that. In times o national rebellion against the order o God, the rulers o nations will refect the spiritual degradation o its people by their arrogance, by unlawully seizing power, and by disarmament and oppression. Israel under Saul was the same way. Under his rule the Philistines deeated Israel, disarmed them, and placed them under oppression. (I Samuel 13:19-20, 22-23)
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CHAPTER X CONCLUSION
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eorge W. Bush entered into a treaty with the Canadian and Mexican governments on March 23, 2005. Bush skirted congressional approval by signing the treaty into eect by executive order. Te meeting was held at Baylor University in Waco, X. Tis meeting saw President Bush, Vicente Fox o Mexico, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin sign the SPP (Security and Prosperity Partnership) agreement that allows Canadian or Mexican troops to enter the United States to quell any uprising or civil unrest.
government to provide instead o God and our own two hands. We wallow in a cesspool o victimhood and entitlement. We’re We’ re too apathetic apathe tic to stay abreast ab reast o what our government is doing.
Tose o us who still adhere to the vision the ounding athers had o this nation are the last vanguard standing between reedom and oppression. We need to work tirelessly through government channels to elect men and women o like values, and through the courts to petition on behal o the American people or adherence to constitutional principles. However, However, once those options are George W. Bush, on March 23, 2005, no longer open to us, then we may have to signed away all vestiges o national sover- ask ourselves, as did Patrick Henry, “Is lie eignty and the constitutional rights o the so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased people o the United States o America. at the price o chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!” It’s no longer a matter o “i” the American people will be disarmed, it’s it’s a matter o How well we prepare now, as individu“when”. Te only hope we have is to return al citizens across the land, will determine this country to the republic it was, consist- how well we stand against uture tyrannies, ing o constitutional rights and law. whether civilian or government in nature, whether oreign or domestic in design. Unortunately the people o America have grown lazy. We no longer have that rontiersman “can-do” attitude. We look to
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Resourcess for Materials Resource Ma terials VCI paper paper can be purchased as several several online sites. http://www http://www.uline.com .uline.com and http://www.packagingsupplies.com are two sites that sell this material. Tere are also surplus dealers on ebay that auction o VCI paper rom time to time at a much cheaper price. Go to http://www http://www.ebay .ebay.com .com and type in VCI paper in the search box. Plastic sleeving large enough to t over long rifes can be purchased at several places online as well. http://www.uline.com and http://www.polybagsupplies.com are two places that seem to sell at reasonable prices. Silica can be bought in packets or in bulk. Again, http://www.uline.com seems to be the packaging supercenter when it comes to these types o supplies. O course you can always do your own internet search to see i you can obtain it cheaper somewhere else. Military med kits can c an be ound at two dierent places: http://www.amo.com http://www.amo.com and http://www.theepicenter http://www .theepicenter.com. .com. Tey have more than your standard rst aid supplies. Your local tax assessor’s oce will have the tax maps or your area that will tell you the ownership o property you’re interested in. In addition, they may have the topographical maps or your area. I your county doesn doesn’’t have them, you can contact the U.S. Department o the Interior to purchase them.
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Important Resources for Self-Reliant Living Heirloom Seeds I you’re you’re going to plant a survival sur vival garden then you denitely want a good source o non-hybrid, non-germinated seeds. As you probably know, big seed companies have now engineered seeds with a “terminator gene”. gene”. Tese seeds will not reproduce ater themselves as they have been genetically altered. We’ We’ve ve located a company that sells a “Survival Seed Bank”” containing enough heirloom seeds to plant a ull Bank ul l acre crisis garden. All you have to do is save some o the seeds each all and this little kit will produce a lietime supply o ood or you and your amily and neighbors. You Y ou can learn more about it by going to their website. It can be located at www.survivalseedbank.com.
Double or o r riple riple Survival Garden Production We’ve We’ ve ound a product that combines all natural sh emulsion with liqueed kelp which allows the survival gardener to harvest in ewer days, with less (or no) herbicides or pesticides. It yields 200-300% more nutrient dense ood as well as dramatically increases shel lie o the produce grown with it. Grow giant vegetables quicker than you thought possible. We highly recommend this all natural product. Get the details at www.growlikecrazy.com.
Food Storage Once you plant and harvest your garden, make sure you know how to properly store these oods by drying or canning. One o the best resources or ood storing stori ng strategies can be ound at www.oodshortageusa.com. www.oodshortageusa.com.
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Crisis Cooking One o the most important areas o surviving a crisis is the ability to cook meals and sanitize water. Without sterilized water, water, you have big bi g problems with bugs that can make you or those living li ving with you very, very, very sick. We We ound an excellent little survival cooker that can use wood, charcoal or propane as uel which makes it a pretty versatile tool. to ol. You You can read more about it at www www.crisiscooker.com. .crisiscooker.com.
New Solar Powered Generator Produces “Of the Grid” Back-Up Power I you have ever wanted to have an emergency “backup” “backup” system that supplies continuous electrical power, power, this will be the most important message you will ever read. Here is why: Tere is a now a completely portable (and ultra-high ecient) solar power generator which produces up to 1800 watts o household electricity on demand when you need it most. News o this “solar backup generator” (it’ss the rst “o-the-grid” breakthrough in 50 years) is spreading (it’ like wildre all across the country! Additional inormation on this unit can be ound ou nd at www.mysolarbackup.com. www.mysolarbackup.com.
Power Sleep For A Strong Immune System Getting sleep when the world is alling apart around you is sometimes dicult to do. I you’ you’re having trouble getting to sleep, most olks opt or a prescription sleeping pill. One way around the prescription sleeping pill dilemma is by a special audio CD that puts you out without any drugs whatsoever.. All you have to do is to listen with headphones and you all whatsoever asleep. In a stressul situation, this CD may mean getting the healthy sleep which is critical to surviving a health breakdown. Check it out at www.highspeedsleep.com.
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Unusual Mineral Substance Many people who make their own survival oods use this neat little supplement called Power Water. Placing one or two drops in each can o preserved oods can raise the nutritional value dramatically by ortiying your canned oods with an amazing army o trace elements and minerals. Te product also contains a unique compound called ulvic acid which has incredible antioxidant value. You’re not really prepared unless you have a ew bottles o this stu lying around. It would also be a great barter item so you may want to purchase their “12 pack” or the best value. Check out www.powerwater.ws.
Te One "Survival Supplement" You Shouldn't Be Without One supplement I would recommend having in your survival arsenal is a substance called shilajit. Shilajit comes rom the rocky clis in the Himalayas. Somewhat o a mystery myster y, it’s it’s believed to orm as a result o "mineral drip" rom the cracks o the rocks during the hot summer months. Tis mineral drip runs through plant matter that has been trapped in the crevices o the cli areas, and along with geothermal pressure, a dark red somewhat gummy substance is ormed. Te reason you want this substance in your survival cabinet is because the active constituent o shilajit is a chemical called ulvic acid. Tis is why shilajit is one o the most sought ater healing compounds in Ayurvedic medicine. Probably the best quality and perhaps the lowest priced shilajit can be ound at the website: www.blacklistedherb.com. www.blacklistedherb.com. Te company will ship the product out to you and only require you to pay the shipping up ront and invoice you or the balance due 30 days later. Frankly, Frankly, I don't know o another supply company that operates on the "golden rule" premise o doing business. Make sure you have some o this substance. Oh, one more thing t hing about shilajit. Many researchers also believe that this substance also makes nutrients rom other oods more bioavailable. I this is true, it means all o your stored oods will supply your body with more precious vitamins, minerals and vital trace elements when you need them the most.
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Getting the Guns Out o Sight In the event o an emergency, emergency, i and when all hell breaks loose, protecting your guns will be a key element to deending yoursel and your loved ones. When hunger strikes and panic arises, so too, will the amount o crime. It won’ won’t only be criminals but desperate people breaking in to your home hoping to nd and take your ood, water, guns and other survival sur vival items. Learning how to hide your guns rom criminal scum should be one o your top priorities. You You can nd out more about very clever ways to hide your guns at www.hideyourguns.com. www.hideyourguns.com.
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