Versatile Equipment: Galco Stow-N-Go

It's rare when you find one holster that will fit multiple handguns, but I discovered that the Galco Stow-N-Go will do just that.

For $25 (Cabelas) my S-N-G made to fit my Smith & Wesson J frame turns out to work well with everything from my Walther P22, my Beretta 85 (.380) and my Colt Combat Commander.

For the price and versatility this holster is pure WIN. I've found that secured over my right hip that the plastic belt clip will keep the holster secured to my jeans alone without a belt if on a rare occasion I'm not wearing one (quick run to the store, cutting the grass, etc).

There is no forward rake or cant just a straight up draw which aids in concealment, and the soft suede is uber comfortable. Over the Summer the wife and I drove out west and I wore my Combat Commander tucked inside this holster for the entire 18+ hour drive.

If you are in need of a multi-gun IWB holster or just one gun specific I definitely recommend Galco's Stow-N-Go.

Route Considerations

• What is the date and time you are going to be traveling.
• Will the route take you near factories, government buildings, entertainment venues/stadiums.
• How does that effect you?
• Bridges, overpasses, tunnels, underpasses.
• How many total.
• Schools, Universities.
• Construction in the area
• Parks, wooded areas, vast openess
• How many intersections, red lights, stop signs
• Hospitals, police stations, fire houses, med stations
• Total length of this route choice
• Estimated time for route choice
  

Note that each route is subject to change hour by hour. Plan ahead. Be flexible.

The AK-47/AKM

The World's most common (and its variants) Assault Rifle. If you care for the particulars go here.

Here is a quick reference on how to make it go bang.

1. The Trigger. The AK is often found in its select fire model, meaning it can fire semi-automatic or full auto. To make a loaded rifle go bang you squeeze this.

2. Location of the Safety Mechanism. You should never walk around with your finger on the trigger regardless (Rule 3 of firearms safety. Keep your finger off the trigger until your ready to fire). However you don't want to engage in a fire fight only to find that the safety is on. The safety on the AK is the lever shown in the picture above. The lever all the way up (like in the photo) means the safety is on. Lower it all the way down and it will fire one time for every squeeze on the trigger. Put the lever in the middle and it will fire full automatic (on full auto variants), meaning if you hold the trigger down the rifle will keep shooting until the magazine runs out of ammo or you take your finger off the trigger.

3. The magazine release. Like the trigger squeeze on this and the magazine will come out. It may need some help from you to pull it free.

4. The Bolt. If the gun is empty and you put in a fresh magazine pull the bolt back and let go of it. This will chamber a round. As long as the gun functions well (and AKs function well) you will only have to do this one time per magazine.

5. The Magazine. Generally holds somewhere between 20-40 rounds with 30 being the most common. When putting a fresh loaded magazine into the rifle angle the magazine forward into the magazine well, then pull the magazine into the gun in an upward rocking motion.

6. The rear sight. It shaped like a V for the general sense. It has a notch in the middle. You visually align the front sight into the notch. If you have time line the front and rear sight up so they are as close to even on the top of the post and notch as possible. If you don't have time, guesstimate and fire off a couple of rounds and adjust as necessary.

7. The Front Sight. This is the rock that the church is built on. When shooting (again if you have time) focus your eyes so the rear sight is fuzzy and the target is fuzzy and the front sight is clear. The front sight on an AK is generally a center post.

En masse evacuations in the last ten years

• 1999 – The Kosovo War led to 800,000 refugees, not all of them urban residents, leaving Kosovo and being accommodated for up to three months in other parts of Europe.
• September 1999 – The size of Hurricane Floyd, its intensity, and its track prompted public officials to launch one of the largest evacuations in U.S. history with an estimated 3 million people fleeing the storm.^[6]

• April 2001 – 77,000 inhabitants (around 2/3 of the population) of Vicenza, Italy were evacuated for several hours so that an unexploded bomb, originally dropped in World War II, could be safely disarmed.^[7]
• January 2002 – 300,000 residents of the city of Goma, Democratic Republic of the CongoMount Nyiragongo.^[8] were evacuated in three days due to the eruption of a nearby volcano.
  
• August 2002 – The 2002 European floods led to the evacuation of 50,000 residents of Prague, Czech Republic, on 13 August, with a total of 200,000 Czechs during the second week of August.^[9] Elsewhere in Europe more than 120,000 people were evacuated in the German city of Dresden, 36,000 in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, and 1,500 in Hungary.^[10]
• July 2005 – 20,000 people were evacuated from the city of Birmingham in the United Kingdom after a security alert due to a bomb scare.^[11]
• August 2005 – Hurricane Katrina led to a mass evacuation of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana in the United States, with approximately 80% of the city's population of 484,000 evacuating before the storm struck.
• September 22, 2005 – Texas Department of Transportation says 2.4 million evacuated from Houston, Texas for Hurricane Rita.
• October 2007 – More than 1.4 million people were evacuated in the Chinese provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian in anticipation of Typhoon Krosa.^[12]
• October 2007 – California wildfires forced more than 800,000 people in Southern California to evacuate, making it the largest evacuation in California history^[13] and the largest evacuation for fire in United States history.[1]
• May 2008 – 2008 Sichuan earthquake: Approximately 200,000 people are evacuated in Beichuan County, China because of flooding fears after a landslide created dam became unstable.^[14]
• August 2008 – At least 1.9 million people evacuate coastal Louisiana, including New Orleans, for Hurricane Gustav.^[15] In western Cuba at least 300,000 people were evacuated for Hurricane Gustav.^[16]