People that know me just assume I am.
Showing Your CCW To Others Unsafe?
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Hodgin
US Veteran
No one other than my wife, my youngest daughter, and a few people at the range know I carry. I never see the guys at the range anyplace other than the range and my wife and daughter have no idea that I carry as much as I do. I don't announce it and they don't ask.
My friends and members of the family have no idea I carry and would be very surprised to find I did.
My friends and members of the family have no idea I carry and would be very surprised to find I did.
I am not about to hand anyone a loaded firearm, unless we're at the range and the business end remains pointed downrange.
I don't even like seeing someone else load one, indoors. I do it all the time, but I just can't get used to seeing someone else doing it.
I don't even like seeing someone else load one, indoors. I do it all the time, but I just can't get used to seeing someone else doing it.
feralmerril
Absent Comrade
I spent 35 years at lockheed as a guard. Our guns were company guns that were carried 24-7 by 3 shifts relieving each other. They were handed off to each other on something like 30 separate posts a day. There was a high turn over besides. In those 35 years I never once heard of a AD. I did once hear of a old guard getting through with his rounds and sitting in HQ, out of boredom removing his ammo and dry firing at clock on the wall. Yup, one round went off and he shot the clock about 5 am. Chief came in and he threw his badge on his desk. Chief seen he hit the clock dead center, threw his badge back to him and said, if you had missed I would have fired your butt.
I am sorry if I seem too casual or not serious enough for you guys but when you handle guns that much we dont quite see it as handeling a atom bomb.
I am sorry if I seem too casual or not serious enough for you guys but when you handle guns that much we dont quite see it as handeling a atom bomb.
Rastoff
US Veteran
Once the gun goes in the holster at the beginning of the day, it only comes out for three reasons:
It gives me a psychological advantage knowing that when the gun comes out of the holster, except in those specific situations, it's coming out for serious use.
Handled properly, it's not unsafe. However, you need to have a conversation with this guy and school him on gun etiquette. It's OK to show off your new acquisition, but that wasn't the time or place.
- To shoot the bad guy
- Practice at the range
- Put it away at the end of the day
It gives me a psychological advantage knowing that when the gun comes out of the holster, except in those specific situations, it's coming out for serious use.
Handled properly, it's not unsafe. However, you need to have a conversation with this guy and school him on gun etiquette. It's OK to show off your new acquisition, but that wasn't the time or place.
Dominus_Lex
Member
While this is the proper time and place for the discussion, CC is like Sex, Church and Politics, not necessary polite public talk.
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