NRA car window sticker

[Beemerguy53]

Read an article a few years back, maybe by Massad, that said some of
those bumper stickers can work against you in a court of law, if you need
to shoot in self defense. Keep honking, I'm re-loading for an example.

That's another good argument for not putting stickers or signs on your vehicle...

"So, Mr. Beemerguy, at the time you shot the deceased, you had a bumper sticker that reads 'Protected by Smith & Wesson' on your car. You were just chomping at the bit for the chance to shoot somebody, eh?"

 

[7shooter]

I have a Bison and a Bulldog sticker ( my grandson's colleges ) on my car.

Nobody messes with me.

 

[steelslaver]

Around here there are lots of rigs with gun related stickers. I don't have any, but do have a couple political ones. I rarely ever see any liberal type stickers though. I also have a USMC sticker and a Montana Sheriffs and Police officers Association sticker on all of them. I have had people talk to me about my political ones. All positive comments so far. Gun stickers are kind of redundant when you see it on a truck with a loaded rifle rack in a truck that is idling away in the grocery store parking lot with the door unlocked. But, then its also 100 miles by 2 lane road to the nearest city. I live in a whole different world than most people.

But, if I lived someplace else I might do things different.

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

I would be more concerned about an NRA sticker making some cop trigger jumpy if he stopped me and approached with his gun unholstered.

In Tennessee, as long as you can legally own a gun it can be kept loaded in the vehicle. I reckon all LEOs approach vehicles with that in mind and appropriate care, but I'm curious about the assumption that cops are particularly concerned "trigger jumpy" when approaching a suspected NRA member on a traffic stop.

There's 5-6 million current members of the NRA. Vehicle window sticker or not, how many of them shot a cop during a traffic stop last year?

Perhaps LEOs in other parts of the country are suffering great anxiety and irrational fear at the mere sight of an NRA sticker, but that doesn't seem to be an issue around here.

 

[Muss Muggins]

I would be more concerned about an NRA sticker making some cop trigger jumpy if he stopped me and approached with his gun unholstered. I would rather have my CWP surprise him when he asked for my ID. It would be better to prove I was legally carrying before he suspected I might be carrying.

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A: Cops don't get jumpy about stickers. They also don't pay any attention to the Police Benevolent Association stickers you have on your window to maybe avert a ticket.

2: Cops don't like surprises. Some surprises are better than others, but they still don't like surprises . . .

 

[Mickey D]

I have a US Border Patrol cap I wear on occasion. Awhile back I stopped on the road along side one of our reservoirs to ask a couple of Hispanic looking guys how the fishing was. When I rolled down the window to talk to them their eyes got as big as saucers. I'd forgotten that I had this hat on that day! My wife and I laughed all the way home!
Jim

I too have one of those Border Patrol hats. Used to wear it to the CA DMV and watch half the folks run scared!

 

[joe44va]

Sign is wrong. There were 13 states that succeeded. Maybe they didn't count Virginia.

 

[the ringo kid]

Sign is wrong. There were 13 states that succeeded. Maybe they didn't count Virginia.

Probable spelled by a graduate of the govt public school system--or just cant count past 12 w/o the help of a calculator.

 

[Tom S.]

That's another good argument for not putting stickers or signs on your vehicle...

"So, Mr. Beemerguy, at the time you shot the deceased, you had a bumper sticker that reads 'Protected by Smith & Wesson' on your car. You were just chomping at the bit for the chance to shoot somebody, eh?"

Can you cite one case where that has happened?

 

[Mule Packer]

Personally, I try to keep a fairly low profile. The only sticker I have on the ol' Dodge pickup is an American flag in the back window. So, the only folks who would possibly want to vandalize my truck would either be commies, old, washed-up, anti-war protesting hippies from the '60's, or Colin Kaepernick.

I want people to understand that I'm not worth picking on. I'm just a stove up ol' cowboy, driving around in an old truck with a border collie riding in the back. Perfectly harmless.

Most people would think, "Why break into that truck? About the only thing we would find in there is a pair of fencing pliers, a half-empty tube of horse antibiotics, and a wadded up chunk of bailing twine."

I mean, who's to know there's a .357 magnum up front with me and a lever action rifle in the back under the old Pendleton blanket?

 

[shouldazagged]

Personally, I try to keep a fairly low profile. The only sticker I have on the ol' Dodge pickup is an American flag in the back window.

I want people to understand that I'm not worth picking on. I'm just a stove up ol' cowboy, driving around in an old truck with a border collie riding in the back. Perfectly harmless.

Most people would think, "Why break into that truck? About the only thing we would find in there is a pair of fencing pliers, a half empty tube of horse antibiotics, and a wadded up chunk of bailing twine."

I mean, who's to know there's a .357 magnum up front with me and a lever action rifle in the back under the old Pendleton blanket?

A man after my own heart. Low profile, unobtrusive, always armed, not looking for trouble but not unprepared.

I've never seen the point of calling attention to myself, and especially calling attention to the fact that I carry a gun.

You can call that what you will, and some will. I just think of it as simple prudence for an old guy on oxygen who hasn't a hope in hell of running or fighting hand to hand, and who feels no inner need to advertise.

 

[Big Cholla]

You Forgot.....

Personally, I try to keep a fairly low profile.

Most people would think, "Why break into that truck? About the only thing we would find in there is a pair of fencing pliers, a half-empty tube of horse antibiotics, and a wadded up chunk of bailing twine."

I mean, who's to know there's a .357 magnum up front with me and a lever action rifle in the back under the old Pendleton blanket?

MP: I think you forgot the old well used hoof pick laying on the floorboards on the passenger side......... .............

When I was a So. Nevada LEO, we laughed at the thought that a person who had a old 30-30 hanging on a gun rack in the rear window of his pickup could drive around the Las Vegas area all day and never be looked at twice by any LEO. We would all assume that he was a cowboy from Pahrump or Overton in town buying supplies. BUT, that same person hang a black AR 15 or AK type rifle there and he would be stopped over and over. ..... It is all perception.