June 17, 2024
Summer Travel Security: From Home Safety to On-the-Road Preparedness
Have you ever wondered if you're truly prepared for your summer vacation? On this episode, Crystal and I uncover the critical steps to keep your home and yourself secure during your travels. From the strategic use of social media to prevent break-ins to leveraging law enforcement's house check services, we offer actionable advice to give you peace of mind while you're away. We also discuss the necessity of securing firearms, using timers for lights and electronics, and enlisting the help of trustworthy neighbors and holding mail delivery.
Get ready to learn invaluable tips that extend beyond just protecting your home. We dive into the complexities of traveling with firearms, covering essential regulations and TSA requirements. Discover the must-have travel tools such as first aid kits and prepaid debit cards to manage finances safely on the road. We also emphasize the importance of situational awareness and having a solid back-up plan with your travel companions. Whether you're planning a short trip or a long getaway, this episode is packed with practical advice to ensure a safe and prepared summer vacation. Don't miss it!
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08:49 - Travel Safety and Preparedness Tips
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Hi, welcome to the Armed Guardian Podcast, season 2, episode 11.
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Today, crystal and I will be discussing summer preparedness as we prepare to do our travels for vacations and getaways.
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Are you considering everything to be safe and to be carrying your weapon while you're traveling out of state?
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Safe and to be carrying your weapon while you're traveling out of state.
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So today we'll be discussing some of these ideas and topics to just remind you what you need to do, what you need to consider while you're traveling and some tips to be safe while you're out and about having fun.
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Hi, welcome to the Armed Guardian Podcast.
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Today, crystal and I will be talking about summer preparedness.
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Are you being proactive in your planning to be prepared for travel and concealed carry?
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So joining us today is just me and Crystal.
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David's not able to be with us, but we'll be doing some things with him a little bit later.
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He's had a few things on his plate, but looking forward to get back into the swing of things here.
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So how are you doing today, crystal?
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I'm doing wonderful.
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I really can't believe it's already going to be summer.
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It's just right around the corner and we just started this year off and it's already just flying past.
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Yeah, the summer heat.
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I don't miss it from whenever I live down in South Florida and it's nice to have the summer and the sun, but the heat they can keep it.
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Oh, absolutely.
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All right.
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Well, I thought about whenever I was doing my business newsletter.
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I did a little small blog or section on summer preparedness, being prepared, and I thought it would be a good topic for the podcast today.
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And, of course, I reached out to you and you agreed and I just wanted to talk about some things that people may not be thinking about whenever they're preparing for their summer travel, vacations, having guests come in.
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So that's kind of what we wanted to discuss here and get your thoughts and just kind of get the word out there for people to think, which is what I wanted the podcast to be about.
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So what are some things that you can think of right off the top of your head that you tend, you see, or you maybe even yourself forget about whenever you're planning your vacation or your your travel time away from home?
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What are some things that pop into your head that people might forget?
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Well, first of all, let's talk about the home.
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Right.
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So a lot of times people are online posting about their trip to wherever they're going to be at, letting people know they're going to be away.
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You know they're counting down five more days of my vacation, three more days.
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Today's the day and now you have people that know that your home is going to be another fire truck going by.
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Sorry about that, yeah.
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So, that you know.
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You're just announcing that you're going to be away from the home.
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Right.
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And that can be, you know, a bad situation you got.
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A person wants to burglarize your home.
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Now you just gave them the open door to do so.
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So just remember, if you are going away, not to announce it all over social media, and if you have firearms at home, that's even a bigger problem.
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If you don't have them safely secured, you have a break in and you have your firearm sitting on the table or an addresser.
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you know that can be an issue yeah but, uh, but I do see that a lot people are just announcing that they're going to be away from home, firearms being uh, sitting on tables in different locations throughout the house, and we don't want those firearms out on the streets.
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Right, yeah, and there's something that people can think of that a lot of agencies or a lot of law enforcement agencies communities do is house checks for people that are on vacation.
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I know whenever I worked in Florida and even up here in Georgia in law enforcement, we would have people that would call and say, hey, I'm going on vacation.
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From this time, my house will be vacant.
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Can you have an officer ride by and check it whenever you're able to?
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And here's my emergency contact If something is wrong or they find something that doesn't look right, these are the people that can either contact me or get in contact with other family that doesn't look right.
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These are the people that can either contact me or get in contact with other family that didn't go on vacation with you or friends.
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And that's something that a lot of departments do free of service, and it's something that the officers do when they have time, of course, understanding that they are busy and there may be a day that they don't get by the house, but that's one option for people to consider if they're going on vacation.
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And then also staging timers for lights in the home to come on and off, music, to come on TV, to pop on things like that to make it look like somebody's there.
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Have a friend or something.
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If they've got a spare vehicle, pull it into the driveway periodically and just move things around.
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Make it look like somebody is there.
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Deterrence is the big thing.
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Oh yeah, I agree, I talk about that in my classes as well.
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Staging your homes the police departments are great.
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A lot of times they'll do that.
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They'll come out, like you said, absolutely free and do a check.
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Neighbors too.
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If you have good neighbors that you can trust, they're a good asset to have as well to go and check and make sure everything's secure, keeping those timers on so the lights look like they're coming on and off.
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Another thing is, if you're getting mail, have the post office hold your mail so you don't have it piling up.
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If you just have a regular mailbox where somebody can go by and say you know, there's a lot of mail here right there's probably nobody home.
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I mean, back in the day that was newspapers on your front door.
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I say, collect those newspapers.
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But you know, I don't know that too many people have those delivers anymore.
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It's all online.
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But that's just another thing.
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Is you know, that I recommend doing is holding your mail right, yeah, uh, so no, that's pretty much all that I can think of on the home front.
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Uh, you know, if you're going to be going for an extended time, you may want to plan to have somebody pay a neighborhood kid or something to mow your yard or something.
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So it looks upkept that you know someone doesn't see how the grass hasn't been mowed in a week.
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Someone must not be home, so that's, that's another thing.
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So, preparing for travel let's talk about that for a moment.
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As you you are preparing, we get caught up in trying to make sure we're packing everything that we're going to need.
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Maybe confirming our reservations where we're going A lot of times you may forget about, depending on how you're traveling too, is going to be a big thing.
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But let's say you're going on vacation in your vehicle and you're a concealed carrier, what states are you going to be passing through and what are their laws?
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Each state has different laws.
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Some states you may carry concealed with your reciprocity, if you have a permit.
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If you're going constitutional constitutional does that state recognize non-resident constitutional carry?
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Um, some things to think about, and a lot of people that's one of the things they don't think about they say we're going on vacation, I'm gonna carry my gun and they may get in trouble because magazine limits ammo restrictions um yeah, duty to inform.
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Right, yeah.
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Definitely.
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Yeah, you have to know the laws for each state that you're passing through.
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Very important.
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And another you know is keeping your firearm safely secured in your vehicle as well.
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So have a safe.
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So if you go to a location that you're not allowed to carry that firearm and you want to make sure that you have a safe for it in your vehicle.
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What are some ways that you check on the laws and the reciprocity?
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Do you have a specific app that you prefer or a website that you prefer using to check on anything like that?
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I sure do.
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I use the USCCA app, so I have that on my phone.
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It's so easy to use.
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You just punch in your state and it will give you all the information that you need for the other states you're going to visit.
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So I recommend that app to everyone.
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Yeah, yeah, that's one of the apps that I use, and even on the website for people that may not have a smartphone website, for people that may not have a smartphone, that I tell them.
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You know, you can always go online on a regular laptop, desktop and pull up the same information, um, you know, check if you've got the self-defense coverage.
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You know, maybe your uh provider like right to bear, like I use, is, um, you can call their attorney hotline or their hotline and you can even ask questions.
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Hey, what's the laws?
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Here I'm traveling?
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What do I need to consider as far as safe passage Carry laws?
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What restrictions do I need to be aware of?
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And there'll be a team that will research and get back with you, as you're a member of their right to bear.
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But just calling and checking, even calling directly to the if you're going to, let's say, philadelphia, pennsylvania, and you're going to be staying there for a while, call the local law enforcement agency in the community that you're going to be staying at and say, hey, I'm going to be traveling on vacation, staying here for X number of days.
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What laws do I need to be concerned with in your jurisdiction?
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Just being well-informed is a big thing.
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That's just being well informed is a big thing.
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So anything else you can think of on as far as the traveling by car and stuff like that, Not that I know I don't think so.
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OK, but then we also maybe we're not traveling by car, we're traveling by plane, boat, train, bus, being familiar with especially airline TSA requirements.
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A lot of people I've been seeing, especially up in Atlanta Hartfield.
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There's been a number of people here recently that have gotten into trouble for carrying a firearm that should have been checked in and secured and everything.
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And then there's recently over in the Turks where the people have gotten ammo that they forgot about in one of their bags.
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Just knowing those laws for overseas or foreign travel and then for public travel, like with the TSA, knowing that you've got to have your ammunition separate from your firearm and it's got to be unloaded and secured, locked, and all that stuff, a lot of things that people just they put off, that maybe they think about it but it's not foremost in their mind to check up on.
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So that's another big, big thing for them to to look into as they're preparing to travel.
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And then some.
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I'm sorry, but sometimes people forget to have a gun in their bag.
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They're like, oh I forgot I had this gun in my bag and you know I just switched bags.
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I didn't even realize it was there.
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So double check your bags.
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Make sure there's nothing in there that's prohibited.
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It can get you into a lot of trouble right, um, and it can be hard, but especially for somebody that does do edc or everyday carry, because it becomes a part of them and they don't think about it, they just second nature, are carrying and, but they forget that they have to declare or they can't carry in a certain location.
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I've had that happen to me once before went to a location that I couldn't carry inside, jumped out of the car, started to go in and realized that I couldn't take my firearm in there.
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So I had to go back to the car, secure it and could have been in some legal trouble.
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But uh, if I would have went inside.
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But uh, just trying to remember and being concealed, carrying concealed, we have to.
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We have a lot of things running through our mind situational awareness, uh, laws, uh, and day-to-day stuff that we have running through our mind that we don't always multitask as good as we should sometimes.
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That's right.
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So, as we're traveling, we briefly talked about magazine limits and ammunition restrictions, knowing that there's a lot of different states that have those restrictions, uh, being aware of them.
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Um, first aid, tourniquet, chest seals, uh, you know, not necessarily just for your uh, everyday carry, for gunshot wounds, but, you know, having a first aid kit in your vehicle, your backpack, or something for your travels, for those minor cuts, scrap, scrapes and bruises and stuff.
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What's your first aid kit?
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Look like I know you probably have several.
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You have your range one, I'm sure, because of your instruction, do you have one that you keep in your vehicle for your travel, whenever you travel?
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I sure do.
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So I have in my vehicle.
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I have.
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I always keep a tourniquet in my bag.
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So on my personal I always have a tourniquet.
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Then I have a little small little first aid kit band-aids and things of that nature, medications too, when you're traveling, to make sure that you don't forget those medications, because it might be difficult for you to get some, get them outside of your state.
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So make sure you have those medications that you need on you.
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But yeah, just keep a little.
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You don't need something huge, you know, but just get something.
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If you personally carry, that's easy to pack and just have it with you on vacation, cause you never know when something happens, even if you're going out for a hike somewhere and then you fall and you scrape your knee.
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If you're on blood thinners, that could be a problem for you.
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So just make sure you have them handy and they're fairly cheap.
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If you don't have one, you can go online and grab it off Amazon just to have something on you.
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Yeah, and actually I know that there are several online places or stores that you can actually get some.
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They're not top of the line, but they're good little travel kits that you can get and those would suffice.
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The only thing you'd have, like you said, having a tourniquet, maybe having some gauze with quick pot or something on it to stop the bleeding.
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But, yeah, you can get a fairly cheap.
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Yeah, but it's something to consider that most of us don't consider, um, so when we travel and we go somewhere, uh, some considerations that um we we need to look at, uh, hotels.
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Some hotels don't allow firearms.
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Some states enforce no firearm signs, some don't.
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What are the hotel policies?
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And then also, we're traveling, we're on vacation, theme parks A lot of theme parks don't allow firearms or even knives.
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I went to Universal last year with two of my daughters and one of their boyfriends and we went there and I forgot that I had a pocket knife on me and went up there, went through their scanner and what do you got?
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And I'm thinking I put my firearm off, my pepper spray out.
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Then I felt in my pocket and had the pocket knife and had to go back to the car to put the pocket knife up because I didn't want to leave it in there.
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A little the bucket and hope to get it back.
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Exactly, yeah, I don't ever leave anything like that either, I agree.
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Well, I like to avoid those places anyway.
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I don't like the large crowds.
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But if I were to go, yeah, I wouldn't have those items on me, right?
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Yeah, checking with those theme parks what are their policies, what do they allow, don't allow?
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I guess, if you feel and chancy enough, you can try, but more than likely you're going to have to walk through the detectors and once you've set that thing off, then they're going to question a little bit more.
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So, just something to prevent a lot of delay in your family fun.
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And we talked a little bit about storage.
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But as you're traveling no, of course, in your vehicle, in your motel or you know, uh, if you're staying with family carrying a small safe uh to store your handgun, and especially if you're going to another family member relatives, uh, friends that has small children, you may want to have something that you can put your firearm in and keep there, but it's secure, where their kids can't get to it.
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And, um, do you what's your recommendation?
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Uh, I know you can get them real cheap at like Walmart, uh, for those, and that would be something great for something like that.
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You know, if you put something in your vehicle for great for something like that, if you put something in your vehicle for safe storage, you may want something a little bit better than the inexpensive safes that you can get at Walmart, but they make a plethora of different sizes and different styles that you can get for vehicles.
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Actually, you can get some that are molded into matching headrests for your vehicle, that a firearm, and I've seen, uh, not consoles, uh where you can put the safes in the consoles, and just uh, amazing what they can do with those right.
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I just had a little hornady one that I have for my vehicle and it's it's pretty sturdy.
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I've tried it out.
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It works really well.
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I tuck it away where people can't see it, so, and it's very affordable.
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I don't care what you spend.
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If something is better than nothing, right?
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So if you don't have anything at all, it's just sitting there.
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If you have something that's less expensive, but a good quality, not something that's like a really poor quality, they can stick a paper clip in and pop it open.
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Obviously, but one of decent quality.
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It's going to be harder for them, it's going to take more time to break in and more than likely they're going to run off if somebody comes out and scoops them right, yep, uh.
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So we, we've got travel, we've gotten to our destination, we've hopefully checked the laws and everything.
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What about financial consideration?
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I tell people, if you're traveling, have you a prepaid debit card, load what you need on it that way, if that card gets you know, keep it separate from your regular wallet, uh that way now, if something were to happen not all your money is tied up into.
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Well, now my vacation's ruined, I'm stuck here, uh, don't have any money, don't know if I can make it back home.
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Um, that's just one way knowing what you're going to spend.
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Or have yourself a limit and load that daily, or something that will help you to keep from having all your finances drained.
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Yeah.
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Go ahead.
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No, that's a great idea, but also the bank sometimes will put a hold on your account, thinking that it's fraud.
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That's happened to me before and the banks were closed and I'm like, oh, I'm at the gas station, I can't fill up, and the banks aren't answering and I'm like, oh, my goodness, the card was locked.
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Right, yeah, and I even recommend my students, whenever I teach, for their online purchases, even at home.
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Get you a prepaid debit card.
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Oh yeah, If you're going to buy something, use that.
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That way they don't have access to your regular bank or your regular credit card information and wipe you out that way.
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I had a daughter that got wiped out here recently because of a scam situation and it can be very hurtful financially and put you in a real bind.
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But, yeah, anything else on the financial aspect that you can think of, um, I know you can also call your bank and let them know that you're going, uh, traveling, going on vacation, because some, like you said, some they'll recognize, hey, they're not here normally and this may be a fraud situation.
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But if you call them and tell them, hey, I'm going to be in Ohio for a week during this time period connecting with them, it can at least let them know where you're going and that purchases may be showing up in that area.
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And don't be alarmed that.
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No, it's most likely you, but there's still a chance that skimmers and stuff like that people get access to your account, so anything.
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Yeah, so for people that carry cash, because I see that here I'm in Fort Lauderdale Beach, so we get a lot of tourists in here and they open up their wallet and they have a wad of cash yeah, it's like hide it, do you know?
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put a few bucks in it, but don't open up your wallet with a wad of cash because the wrong person might see that next thing you know you're being robbed, and I see that so many times, I've seen that so many times down here with the tourist.
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So keep your cash to a minimal, put in a different spot, different spot, you know.
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Don't keep it all in your wallet where somebody can see it and snatch it from you.
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Right, okay, yep, another thing to consider that some people don't is have a backup plan with your travel companion.
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You know, if you're going somewhere, plan a predestined.
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If you're going to split up every hour, send me a text or call me If there's an incident, where are we going to try to meet up at.
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And then also letting family know, even if you don't split up and you go as a family group uh and something were to happen?
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Uh, no, family and friends back home that know you're traveling.
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You know, keep in touch with them, check in with them, say, hey, we're here today.
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Uh, you know, even give them a little bit of a uh, what your journey or your itinerary was.
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Hey, we went here, we went there.
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And then have a safe word.
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You know where, if they, you were some, unfortunately, if you were abducted or held hostage or something they forced you to make a call like there has been.
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Have some sort of safe word to where people say if I say this word, there's a problem.
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Absolutely.
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And that's something to keep in touch.
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And then also you know you share your travel plans or your sites that you've seen and stuff with family and friends, so that would be something.
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And then going over situational awareness with your family A lot of times you go on vacation, like you said, somebody just not there, pulling out their wallet, buy something and they forget about checking their surroundings.
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Uh, pull up to a ATM in the middle of the night or go to the convenience store down from the hotel to grab something.
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They forget about situational awareness.
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It's a good reminder to uh, talk to everybody in your travel group about situational awareness.
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And then also, if you don't remember the topics or anything, there's a lot of things online that you can get to kind of fill in.
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Okay, let's think about this while we're traveling, when we're in a restaurant, let's do this.
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So you got anything else on any of those or anything that we've talked about?
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There's some apps to the.
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You know location sharing that you can share with your family If you want to turn that on, if you're in an area that will allow it.
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Those are also really good.
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Maybe you get tied up and you forget you're out hiking or doing something and you forget what time it is to check in on your hour or you know whatever you set that time period to be.
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Right.
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That way, they can watch and monitor your you know your steps.
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That's really important.
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Yeah, okay, anything else that you can think of as far as summer preparedness, I figured this would be a little quick episode for us to do and, you know, be like just a good reminder of some things for people to think about.
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Well, I know, going into your hotel room to make sure that you have that door locked, there's even devices you can buy for travel that you can prop up on the doors and make it harder for somebody to enter.
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So think about that.
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Like you know, keeping those doors locked, they have that little thing that goes over normally, that top lock.
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