Do you really carry ALL the time?

[cs45pilot]

I see everyday life as a balance of daily risks. I carry when I think I should depending on where the day will take me, and I don't when I see the accepted risk is negligible.

 

[haywood]

All day every day Two J-Frames.

 

[Motorsporting]

More than 90% who respond will say "yes", and I don't doubt them. But in my experience it's the other way around in the general population....90% of those who can, don't.

This is my experience too, with my friends that own handguns and even have CCWs! It's flabbergasting.

 

[CH4]

Yep, except in my house or yard. Just about everywhere else. Stuff happens or there wouldn't be a need for the 6 o'clock news.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

I like it when I'm standing around with people who are discussing in great detail....maybe even arguing about....what gun, caliber, capacity, holster, sights, reloading technique, blah, blah, blah is BEST.

Then I ask, "So, who's got a gun?" and the silence is deafening.

That's what you'd hear from me - loud silence. I carry a gun all the time. Not very many places in MA illegal to carry.

 

[pittpa]

Yes the credit union I am a long time member of is a no gun zone .. members are trying to get that changed ..
the bank my wife worked at there were no signs ..

2 of my 3 gun clubs were no-carry zones until this year. One changed 2 months ago to allow concealed carry, but must remain concealed. The other no-carry has a bar in the club house, which also has the ranges in the basement and a meeting room/wedding hall off the bar. For safety, you must shoot before you drink. Then you can drive home. At the third, we carry open, concealed, whatever.

 

[Fastbolt]

FWIW, neither of the motorcycles in my garage carry spare tires, but I ride them anyway.

 

[Smoke]

I remember reading an article by Masaad Ayoob in which he said if you are ever involved in a shooting one of the questions you will be asked is "Why were you carrying a gun in the first place?"

He said that only carrying a gun when you think you might need it could be construed as looking for trouble and that you're much better off answering the question "I carry a gun daily today was no different."

 

[Smoke]

FWIW, neither of the motorcycles in my garage carry spare tires, but I ride them anyway.

My mountain bike doesn't have a spare tire either but I carry slime and a hand pump every time I ride it

 

[500SNW]

I carry all the time I'm outside the house. The one and only exception is I can't take it when I go to my favorite fishing hole - which is a large COE lake which forbids carrying - and there are game wardens and water patrol.

 

[garddogg56]

I made this for at night inside of the headboard out of an old Daisy holster

 

[Donn]

If I'm dressed, I'm carrying.

 

[Jessie]

2 of my 3 gun clubs were no-carry zones until this year. One changed 2 months ago to allow concealed carry, but must remain concealed. The other no-carry has a bar in the club house, which also has the ranges in the basement and a meeting room/wedding hall off the bar. For safety, you must shoot before you drink. Then you can drive home. At the third, we carry open, concealed, whatever.

I have to say that I find it hard to understand a gun club being a no carry zone. Whaaaaat?

 

[tcon]

I remember reading an article by Masaad Ayoob in which he said if you are ever involved in a shooting one of the questions you will be asked is "Why were you carrying a gun in the first place?"

He said that only carrying a gun when you think you might need it could be construed as looking for trouble and that you're much better off answering the question "I carry a gun daily today was no different."

"I got the heebie–jeebies" probably wouldn't work?

 

[Muss Muggins]

2 of my 3 gun clubs were no-carry zones until this year. One changed 2 months ago to allow concealed carry, but must remain concealed. The other no-carry has a bar in the club house, which also has the ranges in the basement and a meeting room/wedding hall off the bar. For safety, you must shoot before you drink. Then you can drive home. At the third, we carry open, concealed, whatever.

That's my kind of gun club right there . . .

 

[BigCityChief]

I remember reading an article by Masaad Ayoob in which he said if you are ever involved in a shooting one of the questions you will be asked is "Why were you carrying a gun in the first place?"

He said that only carrying a gun when you think you might need it could be construed as looking for trouble and that you're much better off answering the question "I carry a gun daily today was no different."

In 30 years of law enforcement in a city of 8.5 million people, I investigated a fair number of shootings involving citizens licensed to carry firearms. I must say it never occurred to me to ask a firearms permit holder why they were carrying a firearm. I would've thought the answer to be obvious: because they could.

 

[BIGDOC]

Yes...always and even in the bathroom there is one in there with me.

 

[CoMF]

The only time I don't is at work (company policy) or in "sensitive" places like schools, State/Federal buildings, and the like.

It sucks, but it's that or risk losing my job and/or being slapped with a felony charge and stripped of my civil rights if caught.

Those little signs, OTOH, don't carry the weight of law in PA, so you know how that goes. Concealed means concealed.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

If I'm dressed, I'm carrying.

As a description of behavior, I like it and agree with it.

It could also be taken as a definition. I think I agree with that, too.

 

[cowboy gun]

In short, yes, yes I do. I do not go into the post office, courthouse, police station, or Federal buildings. I do still go to Starbucks, CEO asked us not to carry but they haven't put signs up, so, what they don't know....
My EDC, SW M&P in an Aliengear IWB