Consider a scenario where the author has more than one, and is simply placing some of the armory in a safer location.
Do not consider the author unwise or unprepared.
I know the author. ;-)
https://www.eoffshore.com/showdown
Sundown at Coffin Rock.
Not criticizing being prepared or building reserves.
But, burying your weapons with expectations of using them in the future? More likely to end like this story.