Welcome to the forum glad to have you here with us. Great to hear your thinking ahead and working on that bug out bag, keep it up! Good too, to be thinking about getting a fire arm as well. My advice here it think it through very carefully and consider your choices long and had. Come up with a well thought out gun battery then go get it one gun gun at a time and sock away as much ammo as you can. Neither are getting any cheaper and this is the second brutal run on guns and ammo I have seen in the last 5 years! I suspect it wont be the last and I am afraid many choices will soon no longer be much of an option. At any rate hope to see you around and see you often!