Geoff PR,

Hah, I had not even thought about jeopardizing my resources since organizing requires disclosing at least some of what I have.

I imagine that disclosing a basic sense of the firearms that I have is not super risky. For example:
— Many people have an inexpensive handgun.
— Many people have an inexpensive pump-action shotgun.
— Many people have a modest “deer rifle” (e.g. a bolt-action centerfire rifle with a scope).
— Many people have an inexpensive rifle chambered in .22 LR or even .22 WMR.
— Many people have a budget AR-15 or AK-47.

Of course many people who hunt or shoot for recreational purposes will have many or even all of those. And while any firearm is potentially valuable (especially in a SHTF situation), I also imagine that having inexpensive firearms and suggesting that I only have one of any given type reduces my risk of being prime theft/looting target.

I don’t have a pat-answer.

“2) Finding people who have firearms, are physically fit, and willing to organize/coordinate.”

And how to do that without jeopardizing your stash. I’d be sorely tempted to not keep all of “my eggs in one basket”. It’s a lot easier to do if you own where you live, that makes construction projects a lot easier to pull off, like a small workshop in the back yard with a couple of hidden compartments, and a couple in the main dwelling of Casa Sense’…

I just *love* the way a throw-away line in a Hollywood movie has taken on a new life of its own :

“What now? I’m gonna call up a coupla hard, pipe-hitting ni**ers to go to work on the ‘homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. You hear me me, hillbilly boy? I ain’t through with you by a damn sight! I’m gonna get medieval on your ass!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR0lFJz1ooo

The two greatest hurdles, as I see it in my locale, are:
1) Getting people to acknowledge that a nasty attack is very likely to happen.
2) Finding people who have firearms, are physically fit, and willing to organize/coordinate.

That second hurdle seems more difficult than the first.

In my case I live in a neighborhood of 63 homes (typically on 1-acre lots) nestled in a semi-rural area, with another neighborhood of 50 homes (typically on half-acre lots) a half-mile away. Plus we have a sprinkling of additional homes on much larger properties all around as well farms, large open fields, and blobs of forest (often between farms). For whatever reason, many of the homeowners in my neighborhood are retired and far less than ideal candidates for an ambulatory security force. And while the nearby neighborhood seems to have more people who are considerably more ambulatory, I just don’t know the people very well. Even worse, my county has transformed into a hyper-liberal enclave over the last 20 years which makes it that much harder to broach this topic, much less organize a security force.

In general we often think of living in a suburban neighborhood as being a huge liability compared to living in a semi-rural area. In my case I think it is the other way around since everything is basically TOO spread out for easy and speedy coordination. Meanwhile, I will look to good old fashioned hardening of my location as well as new fangled technology to improve my odds without much (if any) “backup” being available in my immediate vicinity.