A Warning: Do You Have An NRA Decal On Your Vehicles?

[paulh]

My NRA stickers and political stickers stay.

 

[keith44spl]

Sadly your right......No stickers for me.

I even removed my FOP emblems......
Don't want my POV getting shot up while driving through the concrete jungle.


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[federali]

Activists also

In addition to thieves using gun-related decals for intelligence purposes, there's also the possibility of anti-gun activists vandalizing your property.

My home and vehicles have been totally neutral for decades. I'd like to advertise my NRA membership but it's just not worth the risk.

 

[italiansport]

Two more points along the same lines if I may

I don't use my real name on this forum or any other forum for the obvious reason that we don't know who will be reading this. I believe the criminal element uses every means at their disposal to determine who to rob.

If your going on a trip out of town I suggest you wait until you return to tell everyone about it. Again we don't know who is on here and an indication that your house will be unoccupied is an open invitation to be robbed.

Jim

 

[Lee in Quartzsite]

Where I live in AZ you can't drive anywhere without seeing not only NRA stickers, but all sorts of gun stickers and 2nd A ones as well. It's a very pro-gun city and you see NRA shirts and hats all over town; restaurants, stores, etc.

I have a NRA trailer hitch cover that lights up when I step on the brake....and I intend to leave it there.

 

[Absalom]

I will always stand up for what I believe in:

My “TEDDY ROOSEVELT FOR PRESIDENT” sticker will remain on my vehicle until the end.

PS: In case someone thinks I‘m joking, the vehicle is actually in the shop this week, so I can‘t take a picture of the original, but here‘s the spare I keep in case I get rear-ended or have to buy another car.

 

[Doug M.]

I’m also concerned about my NRA magazine sitting in my mailbox for others to see.

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Mailbox? Ugh. We have not gotten mail at a house in so long that I can't recall how long. Anything that has to come to a physical location comes to my office. I don't give my street address to anyone without a legal obligation to do so, or unless I need for them to come the house. The property is fenced and the gates are padlocked, so anyone who needs to get in has to call first.

I keep my car more or less "gray", except for the warning stickers about the dog in the (max legal tinted) back windows. I have a couple of small stickers on a side window that won't be seen by most and have meaning to even fewer. I'll stop and play with dogs, and at least of mine will insist on meeting people, but other than that, people are generally not welcome to bother me at home or in public and I don't make them feel welcome.

I have had license plate frames that are a bit inflammatory; 3 different ones have advocated firing named command officers of the State Patrol. (I'd say the same to their faces and have put stronger statements in writing; most of them haven't the integrity or moral courage to contact or challenge me and I don't care at all.) The current one suggests a friend of mine as a candidate for Sheriff in his agency, and I did have it when I was there last fall. He is a controversial figure with the whiners and crybabies, and he didn't think I had the stones to do it.

 

[loknload]

Nope,, No decals or bumper stickers!

 

[doublesharp]

I'm old enough to have had a pick up with a gun rack but now I go low profile with no stickers except a Masonic windshield decal in lower left corner and a Bellarmine College basketball sticker in rear window.

 

[RGVshooter]

NRA decals on the back of your car increasing the risk of someone breaking into your car?

Really guys?

Gee maybe I should change my license plate from the "Fish Texas" novelty plate to something more plain & boring because I'm scared someone is thinking I have a freaking fishing rod in my trunk. No, I pay the extra 30 bux a year for that plate because the money goes towards conservation efforts and that is what I believe in.

This has been going on for as long back as I can remember. Last time I checked it's against the law to break into a vehicle. Heck, you don't even have to break anything. Just by entering a unlocked vehicle with intent to steal is against the law. But it is not shameful to stand up for something you personally believe in. And that is the NRA. If you truly believe in protecting your rights, then show it. Wear your NRA hat if you want. If someone says something to you that is inappropriate because of a silly hat, ignore them, you're the better person. A law abiding person. Again, last time I checked it is battery if someone throws something at you, spits on you or otherwise touches you over a silly hat. They're the ones breaking the law, not you.

If you believe in something, then don't hide it because you're scared of what others may say or do. All that does is demonize the NRA & give the false impression that they're the bad guys, that they're something to be ashamed of among a public who otherwise could have had a intelligent & positive experience with someone that was wearing that NRA hat.

 

[Ozark Marine]

Will I remove my NRA decal off my car?...NO
Will I remove my Marine veteran lic plate? HELL NO
I don't fear snow flakes.

 

[Old cop]

Being a cop for 30 years taught me well. No gun related stickers, or anything else, on my cars. I also do not wear T shirts advertising anything gun related, or anything that might cause some numb skull to start something b/c I’m too old to get into a fight and prefer to fly below the radar.

 

[Goldstar225]

My NRA sticker is on and shall remain. I can't speak for other areas of the country but I have heard this "targeting" story for 30 years. My experience over the years and hundreds of car break in incidents has not revealed any NRA targeting. What have the thieves targeted?


Unlocked cars
Cars with valuables left exposed (purses, computers, guns, cash, cell phones, backpacks....)

Typical pattern is to prowl a neighborhood at night hitting unlocked cars. I rarely worked a forced entry to a car, even if other cars on the street were entered. Forced entry makes noise which draws attention which crooks want to avoid.

Shopping center parking lots, again, unlocked cars.

The really cunning ones target out of state plates in hotels. This is for the simple reason that the victim must appear in court in order for a prosecution to take place, sometimes from several states away. No victim in court, no conviction.

 

[ditrina]

In 1966 I got my drivers license , and I joined the NRA. I asked my Dad if I could put the sticker on the family truckster

His answer was nope.. no need to advertise.. To this day I still heed his advice..

 

[500SNW]

Last time I checked it's against the law to break into a vehicle. Heck, you don't even have to break anything. Just by entering a unlocked vehicle with intent to steal is against the law. Again, last time I checked it is battery if someone throws something at you, spits on you or otherwise touches you over a silly hat. They're the ones breaking the law, not you.

I guess you haven't checked lately. Nowdays you can get your head bashed in for wearing an orange ballcap. Nowdays, millennials can go around burning and looting in protest of whatever...and neither the police, nor the courts seem too interested in prosecuting them. Go onto a college campus wearing your NRA hat and you run the risk of being lynched by the students and faculty.

Unfortunately, I'm only half-joking here...as after the climate of the past two years...there is a grain of truth in what I'm saying.

 

[Coot47]

Along the same line, I once attended a New Year's Eve bash at the Western Club in Wills Point, TX with a Michigan license plate on the pick-up. Bad idea.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

Yes, B&E is illegal. So is DUI.
Years ago Dean Grennell wrote he had no pro 2A bumper stickers on his cars. "No Need To Know" as they said in my Army days.

 

[Old cop]

Probably the most dangerous thing I’ve done since retiring was to wear my Nats baseball hat to a Nats - Phillies game in Philly.

 

[Whitwabit]

none on my Jeep but I am running out of room on my range boxes .. which is only in the vehicle to and from the range ..

 

[CH4]

I appreciate the reasoning of others, but I’ve always had an NRA sticker proudly displayed on my truck along with my “blue line” hitch cover. I value my freedom of speech as much as my right to keep and bear arms, neither shall be infringed.