What do you carry in the truck?

[PapaBear]

Recently got into a new truck, and have a little more room. Trying to decide what to keep handy in the truck.

I have always carried a pistol and a few magazines loaded in the vehicle, usually locked in a compartment. This whether I'm concealed carrying or not.

Now that I've gotten back into hunting a bit more, I've found the need to carry some more things (buckshot, magazine tube plug, chokes, etc).

I've also thought about putting together a "truck kit" with a pelican box and a rifle/pistol combo. Something that could just be grabbed to take if/when SHTF.....

Also, I thought of packing an ammo can with loaded magazines for all of the guns I typically carry, including some boxes of ammo for the various guns, batteries for optics, muffs, etc, for unexpected range trips.

What do you carry? How?

 

[rotarymike]

I don't carry this every day, but it sits near the door for bugout:

50 cal ammo can with:
2 ea extended mags for both mine and my wife's pistols
100 additional rounds defensive ammo
8 loaded mags for our ARs
batteries for our surefires
batteries for our red dots
folder with our vital docs
leatherman
camp knife
water purification tabs
2x israeli compression bandages

This way, if we need to get out of Dodge fast for whatever reason, I can grab this can and be well supplied with whatever I have, up to and including nothing.

It is not a complete 'bugout bag', but it does cover arms and docs.

 

[Tigerstripe]

i can see it now,

do you mind if i search your truck?

what are you a terrorist? why do you need all that ammo?

before he died my neighbor called the cops, long story, but i was shooting in a safe place i had shown the cops before, backstop and direction away from all houses near.

i told they, different cops it was 9mm, they asked how many times, i told them maybe 50. you would have thought they couldnt count that high. really 50 thats rediculous.

i told them if i had my machine gun it might have been 500.

some of them have no clue.

 

[Avtomat-Acolyte]

What kind of a freedom-hating American abdicates their 4th and 5th Amendment Civil Rights simply because someone with a badge wants to ask them a bunch of stupid questions?

No. You can't ever search. What's in my vehicle? **** your mother. That's what.

 

[PapaBear]

 

[rotarymike]

Two issues:

1. If I have to grab this and put it in the car, SHasHTF. So I'm not stopping till we run out of gas or we get to our bugout point. While I hope and pray this never happens, if it does, I am prepared.

2. Have to roll with Avtomat on this one. Never, EVER, ever consent to a search of your vehicle.

If you're lucky enough to get a dirty cop, you just handed them a confession & conviction on drug possession/trafficking. If you've done one of the 30,000 things that constitute a non-crime felony (say, transporting certain non-indigenous plants, like pampas grass, in the car, or cigarettes bought in another state, or technically, gas bought in another state without paying SC tax) and any trace evidence remains of it, you've just forfeited your car and your 2A rights forever.

If things are normal enough that you're stopping for a cop, then you'll probably have a day in court, and then that refusal of consent might save your butt. If the cops feel they have probable cause, they'll search anyway, of course, but might not be able to charge you with some petty bullshiat because of how the evidence was obtained. In my example above, I'm not carrying an excessive amount of ammo - and I would not even try to explain to a cop why it's there other than 'that is my property'. Also, it has a combo padlock on it, and they'd need a warrant to open it. Again probable cause. I've been stopped carrying excessive ammo before (not a crime, but it was enough to bottom out my rear suspension) and the cop wanted to talk about my Garand more than give me a ticket.

Also - I don't know Avtomat's experience with law enforcement, but I try to follow Buddha's primary rule (paraphrased and abbreviated): Don't be a Dick.

I know a lot of cops and most of the ones I know are nice, friendly, honest people doing a job they believe is a good thing. But just like any other kind of job, there are a-holes and power trippers too. A LEO friend of mine said it best: he was describing a chaotic crime scene and said that there were "an awful lot of officers and not enough cops".

 

[PapaBear]

Well, having my firearms business plastered on the back window should be enough reason for me to not be questioned over my ammo can full of mags/ammo......

 

[rotarymike]

Excellent point. Just make sure the Moms Demand Action folks don't stalk you

 

[Tigerstripe]

Mike i know you said yours was waiting for shtf to go into the truck. in the other case it was meant to be after all the bs that comes after hell no and screw yo mama.