It could be carried alongside the diapers in a stroller, in the zippered ball bag as part of a golf bag or tennis gear bag. It could be in a gym bag as part of your workout gear or exercise facility equipment. The general idea is to have it available when or if it is needed.
The EDC Gun Kit can go anywhere, be anywhere that there is a reasonable expectation that a threat could exist or develop. This implies situations outside of the house or primary residence. There you should already be protected with self-defense weapons, ammo, and supplies. Outside your home or at work this may not usually be the case, hence the need for such a specialized kit bag.
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EDC Gun Kit Purpose/Justification
The EDC Gun Kit is intended for providing safety for a relatively short period of time. Such as, getting down the street to your parked car, or out of a park or zoo, or shopping center, or around the block to a police station or other secure area.
It might also become a circumstance where you are forced to hunker down overnight until the run rises so you can move on. Under these conditions, you are going to want a little more gear and supplies than a gun in the pocket, but perhaps not as much as you might have put together in a full bore survival every day carry bag with food, fire, and sheltering provisions.
This becomes a fine line of course, between one kind of supply bag or kit and another one. Those choices are yours, but it is worth considering to have options and to create other kits for other uses or even multiples of them for caching at different locations, different vehicles, or other secure places.
EDC Gun Kit Bag
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Stay with a low(er) profile styling and a black or blend in color like an earth tone. Stay away from anything designer type that might attract unwanted attention. Case in point, during a trip to Costa Rica one of our party was attacked and robbed on a main street in town while carrying a pink backpack with a Disney character on it that screamed “Hey, I am an American tourist”. I advised her to ditch it on day one, but she paid the price for not listening by losing her passport, credit cards, IDs and cash money.
Leave the statement patches off the hook and loop stickers. Don’t snap lock on name tags or political do-dads or anything trying to make a statement. Your statement is to go unnoticed in a crowd, in the office, or walking down the street. Just another average Joe or Jane on a stroll or trying to get home.
EDC Gun Kit Contents
My opinion, but for this gun kit, get at least a .38 Special, .357 Magnum or maybe a .44 Special in a revolver. For a semi-auto pistol choose the 9mm at the very least. If you can handle a bigger gun such as a .45 ACP then choose that. However, don’t go overboard. You don’t need a Desert Eagle in .44 Magnum. Your EDC kit gun should be as small and portable as possible.
Reloading is a consideration, too. For revolvers you can keep a couple of extra speed loaders that holds five or six extra rounds in a quick release device. Just insert the 5-6 held cartridges into the revolver cylinder after ejecting the fired cases, and quick turn the speed loader release. This reloads the entire 5-6 round cylinder all in one motion.
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You got the gun covered. Now what else? The list could be endless or personalized to your concerns, but keep it limited to bare essentials. Remember the gun kit can be altered, modified or changed out as use over time yields new experiences or input.
The gun kit needs to be kept light and handy. Again it is not a full bore EDC bag. So, maybe add a knife, flashlight, light gripper gloves, and maybe a full day of meds that you may have to have for health reasons. Perhaps there is room for a single bottle of water and a nab or two. Try to think of keeping this bag under ten pounds total.
Personal customization is the key to your use and reliance upon such a gun kit bag. You may want to add a cigarette lighter, or box of matches. Your cell phone may be in this bag or a secondary backup phone. What else would you add, while maintaining the restrictions?