To FAC or not to?

[NorthernRaider]

(25 August 2013, 09:46)Bug_out_Bag Wrote: As BDG Says "And what attending MAY it attract? The police come to your house and take your firearm from your gun cupboard? Which would leave you in the position you are in now - with no firearm. "

I couldn't agree more! What's to lose?

Everything else you have in the house, during a civil emergency just remember what we call stockpiles and caches during times of peace and plenty become incidents of HOARDING or Blackmarketeers supplies to the authorities during a crisis. And with the current hysteria driven fear of islamic extremism many books, meterials, supplies etc could also be deemed as possibly being useful to terror cells.

There are laws in place under the emergency powers act that allows the state to sieze anything they need for the duration, guns, radios, vehicles, fuel stocks, food, medical supplies. and remember that since the end of the cold war the govt got rid of their emergency supplies like rescue boats, green goddesses, Austin champ civil defence fleets, the national reserve of food, national reserve of medical kit etc etc todays government is almost entirely reliant in a crisis on the privately own stocks and supplies of kit.

EG the govt keeps a register ( or it used to when I was younger) of every 4x4 vehicle in the UK which it can and possibly would sieze during a civil emergency.

So ( hypothetically) if the cops came a calling to secure your guns and start looking around and see water filters, piles of rations, stores or jerry cans, medical supplies, books, etc they may have been told to watch out for other bulk supplies they can conficate.

Theres plenty of further reading on UK war laws and emergency planning available a good place to start is by reading War Plan UK by Duncan Campbell.

Still at the end of the day if people want to put themselves on official registers and consider the risk acceptable then good luck to them, I wish them well as only time will tell who is right.