I agree with the "Low Pro" and "avoiding crowds" comments while moving on foot.
Personally, I can't imagine a foot movement, with out a long gun of some sort, even a broken down AR. Thinking about it, you'd be better off practicing pistol marksmanship at various ranges, until proficient. You'd be more low profile with a G19 with extended mags or M&P9 concealed, then "Trade up" if and when, the need arises. I still think that a broken down AR, in a backpack with several mags, is worth the hump. The flip side is the larger the ruck, the more you look like you have something worth taking, including your life, for the contents. If you look at the most recent hurricane scenarios, most folks were unprepared with no ruck, just the clothes on their back. You'd stick out like a soar thumb. Maybe setting up a patrol base or hide site, every so often with like minded people, would be the better choice. That way, you could go to "low profile mode" to scavenge and forge for food and water, in pairs, while the base with the rucks, is protected by the larger force. If alone, treat it as a E&E situation, with a ruck, stay off the main roads, move at night, set up camp and travel in difficult/defendable terrain where most urban folks won't go. Of course the AR will be in hand at that point. Going solo, you can set up an individual hide site, and go "low pro" when venturing out.
For God and the soldier we adore, In time of danger, not before! The danger passed, and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." - Rudyard Kipling
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