Unfortunately if all things come to pass, we will need those firearms to protect the food we are growing, even if we only load with rock salt! Polluted rock salt of courseI think we need more on say self sufficiency and food growing and less about firearms.
that's a great idea about posting photos month by month , that way people can compare notes and ideas
and maybe trying non conventional methods of growing food, fast , indoors, maximizing crop for area size,
there are lots of side subject to this
i'm not anti gun far from it, I just think there is more to prepping and survival than just that one topic.
Rainwater collection and storage would be of some interest to me.
l can't get enough info about gardening - maybe l'm on the wrong forum?
On the subject of guns, a friend in Scotland tells me you need a licence for airguns there nowadays.