It is Mother's Day! What does/did your mother Carry?

[quinn]

My mother carried a 1908 Colt Vest Pocket in 25acp. My daughter has it now.
How about your mother?

 

[venomballistics]

mine would give me a pat down before I made the door .... she didnt carry, and she never found my back up

 

[ibewbull]

My mother did not carry.
She is an exception to the liberal New Jersey women though. She is pro gun and I thank her for signing for my fist .22 a Marlin Glenfield bolt action. It is now in the possession of my youngest son Samuel.
She is in her 80's now and recently asked about getting a revolver.
We will see? NJ is still run by the storm troopers as far as I know and how serious she is I don't know.

 

[COL Jagdog]

Most days she carried a 12-inch heavy ruler (from her Catholic school days in Philadelphia) which she would whack my hand or my rump with.

She now has a Browning .380 (Model of 1971). She is also 6 ft tall and played basketball in college, so not the kind of person you would mess with anyway.

 

[Kelly Green]

Mom carried a 'son of a gun', me, for nine months and said that was enough.

 

[Fairlane67]

My children's mother carries a S&W Bodyguard .380

 

[REM 3200]

A Colt 1903 model M in .32ACP. She had to give it up the last three years of her life because she was in a nursing home. She passed 2 1/2 years ago at the age of 97.

 

[BaldEagle1313]

What did mom carry? The family. She was the backbone and the glue.

Born in New Jersey, raised in New York City, college in Hawaii (until 1941, that is), lived in France and Belgium during Korea; she wasn't, and isn't, a gun person. But she knows I am, and defends my right to be so.

 

[Gasman1972]

A grudge, if that counts.

 

[jlanecole]

A wooden spoon...

 

[StatesRightist]

Charter .32 Mag....38 was more than she could handle.

 

[Arik]

A Moisin Nagant! After WW2 Every high school student in Soviet Union had to know how to use one.

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[isaiah360]

My girlfriend carries a M&P9c and my mother is awaiting her lic in the mail. I'm sure shell have a bg380 or something of the kind

 

[Armed Babysitter]

My mom never carried a gun. Cancer took her from us, a gun doesn't do you any good against a threat like that.

 

[chud333]

A lotta love for her family.
I'm all the "Protection" she needs.
God help you if you try to do harm to my mother.


Chuck

 

[dynamike]

My mom carries m36 square butt that I owned for about 12hrs. until she saw it and decided she liked it! Oh well, at least it went to a good home. She says I can have it back if I think I'm BAD enough to take it!

 

[quinn]

Some really nice thoughts here. Thanks for the comments. I started this post without saying anything about my mom. She's 91 now and in a nursing home. She wasn't you typical mother. She had earned her commercial pilot's license by the time she was 19 and enlisted in the WASPs at age 21 (yes, there were about 2,000 female Army Air Corps pilots in WWII.) She also served about 25 years as a probation officer. I once went to clean her Colt and discovered she's been carryimg it unloaded. She told me that she would never shoot anyone so it didn't need to be loaded. The regs only said she had to carry it...

 

[woodsltc]

I never knew of it till I was grown and out of the house, but mom had a .25 cal Astra Firecat. Don't know how often she carried it but I know she knew how to shoot rifles and other handguns.

Don

 

[G.T. Smith]

My Mom always kept an Iver Johnson 9 shot .22 revolver around the house when we were little kids (my 3 sisters and me). Dad bought it for her because we lived in the country and he had to stay and work in St. Louis where he could make a decent wage. Mom is in a nursing home now and doesn't really understand a lot of questions we ask, but i know she never got rid of the gun but I don't have a clue where it is and I can't bring myself to go poking around in her house while she is in the nursing home. Speaking of 1908 Colt vest pockets in .25, I recently traded around and got one built in 1922. I can see why your Mom may have liked hers. Great looking and good shooting gun for sure. My Mom will be 91 this year. She won a beauty contest at the nursing home the other day and her lawn at her house that I take care of, got lawn of the month for April!!!
Peace,
gordon
BTW, The Iver Johnson was built for a lefty like her. It has a thumb rest on the right hand grip panel. and that used to irritate the whatever out of me. Felt real strange trying to shoot it right handed.

 

[Smith357]

My mom has a .38 special American Derringer loaded with wadcutters and sporting pearl grips.

 

[Evil One]

Taurus M85 in .38 spl.


Jim

 

[Mphstiger1981]

My mom carries a cell phone with the phone numbers for my brother and me. My brother is a police officer who works in her area. In the unlikely event something happens and someone was to be foolish enough to try to harm either my mother or my 80 year old father, whoever it is needs to hope my brother gets there before I do.

 

[oldafsp]

My Mom carried a Colt Bankers Special in .38 Spc for as long as I could remember in her purse. It was a wedding gift from my Dad when they got married.

And my grandmother(Mom's)carried a 38/44 Heavy Duty in her purse. But,then again she worked for 31 years in the GBI. That was one huge purse.

I can't ever remember either of them without a gun close at hand.

I miss them both.

 

[quinn]

Getting into grandmothers is a whole nother story. Mom's mom always kept a foile (unblunded, of course) close at hand. She was a fencing master and instructor. I think anyone meaning harm to her or her family would find themselves skewered in extremely short order. My grandmother was of French blood and fearless, probably as a result of surviving the Mexican revolution as a teenager.Her foile wasn't very concealable but she had a case for it and frequently carried it in her car. That alone, might have had some deterrent value.

 

[Glockman9mm]

My mom packs a Taurus 38.

 

[cmort666]

NOTHING.

She's lived in Illinois since before I was born.

 

[38-44HD45]

A no-dash Model 49 Bodyguard I gave her after her old Charter Arms Undercover was stolen from her vehicle last year. I had given her the Charter when I was in college and was dirt-poor. She's 81 years old, about 4'7" tall, not very strong, and doesn't shoot very well. However, I think she's got the will to try, which counts for something.

 

[tramp7810]

Babys mom carries a glock 17 and a glock 27 but then shes a deputy an a good ole lady to have lol.

 

[Knightrider03m]

Smith and Wesson model 36

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...a little late to this thread...but...my mom never liked guns...didn't carry...but my mother in law was a different matter. We took her shooting one time...and she thought my Super Blackhawk was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. I let her shoot some specials through it...and she was convinced she needed one. She made me take her to a gun show and she bought a new one...I'm sure the dealer thought it was the strawman (strawwoman?) purchase of all time with me standing there...but of course...it wasn't. She went shooting with us after that with her box of specials. She ran out one day and I handed her a magnum and said..."here...try one of these..." She managed to keep the front site from creasing her scalp...but didn't like the magnums. She's suffering from the onset of dementia now...so I have two SBH's now...the newer one has shot...with one exception...only specials.