 Alexei Leonov chose he could bring more food with him in the capsule or a pistol. He chose to bring a pistol just in case he had to fight off any wolves and bears. And eventually putting a sort of a sawed-off shotgun in the capsules was recommended. But it would have to be on the outside of the capsule because it was on the inside of the capsule and a cosmonaut went space crazy, which they had