What are your most important scenarios for carrying a firearm
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It's become a "...strange, strange world we live in Master Jack" during my lifetime!
Out of Law School :
1975- 1979.... owned a gun, a 4" Smith Model 10 had a Pa carry permit but only carried when out in Penn's Woods.
1980-1988 started carrying a .380 around town Beretta 70s then a Walther PPK.
1986 added a 3" S&W model 65 weekend carry
1988/89 Beretta 92 Compact or a Sig 220
1990 S&W 3913 replaced my .380 Walther as my "suit gun"; Shorty-9 on weekends
Last few years more often than not a Beretta 92 Compact 15+1 or Centurion 17/18 +1 and spare mag(s)
Shooting; .22s on the High School and College Rifle Teams... after Law School 1980-2005 it was PPC then USPSA and then IDPA.
1985- 92 Trained with my 30 man armed Security Dept and local Police.
Avoid problem areas; hope for the best; be prepared for the worst!
Out of Law School :
1975- 1979.... owned a gun, a 4" Smith Model 10 had a Pa carry permit but only carried when out in Penn's Woods.
1980-1988 started carrying a .380 around town Beretta 70s then a Walther PPK.
1986 added a 3" S&W model 65 weekend carry
1988/89 Beretta 92 Compact or a Sig 220
1990 S&W 3913 replaced my .380 Walther as my "suit gun"; Shorty-9 on weekends
Last few years more often than not a Beretta 92 Compact 15+1 or Centurion 17/18 +1 and spare mag(s)
Shooting; .22s on the High School and College Rifle Teams... after Law School 1980-2005 it was PPC then USPSA and then IDPA.
1985- 92 Trained with my 30 man armed Security Dept and local Police.
Avoid problem areas; hope for the best; be prepared for the worst!
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Eddie Southgate
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Mine goes on when I get out of bed and off when I get back in, nothing to think about.
How often do you not realize you're out of milk until 10 P.M.?
I've told the story before, I didn't get a concealed handgun permit until one day some Maniac chased my wife down Nevada Avenue in Colorado Springs screaming at her because there was a W sticker on the car.
When she got home she was absolutely terrified and shaking. My wife wasn't really pro-gun but she got out of that car and she told me I want a gun and I want a concealed handgun permit. I decided if my wife was going to have concealed handgun permit I was going to have a concealed handgun permit and we went through the class together.
When our permits arrived in the mail I didn't know anything about concealed carry. I didn't know when I should carry I didn't know when I shouldn't carry I didn't know how people decided when to carry. So, like everyone else I Googled it.
Google led me to a Firearms forum with several discussions about when to carry and when not to. The most common answer to the question was you should carry a handgun whenever you're legally permitted to do so. So that's what I did.
My program compliance was kind of spotty until the night I walked out my front door on my way to work and in between the building and my car two guys tried to rob me.
I never actually drew my gun that night. I put my hand on it and I told them to leave and they did.
I really don't ever leave the apartment complex unarmed but after that night I don't so much as go check the mail without a gun in my pocket.
When she got home she was absolutely terrified and shaking. My wife wasn't really pro-gun but she got out of that car and she told me I want a gun and I want a concealed handgun permit. I decided if my wife was going to have concealed handgun permit I was going to have a concealed handgun permit and we went through the class together.
When our permits arrived in the mail I didn't know anything about concealed carry. I didn't know when I should carry I didn't know when I shouldn't carry I didn't know how people decided when to carry. So, like everyone else I Googled it.
Google led me to a Firearms forum with several discussions about when to carry and when not to. The most common answer to the question was you should carry a handgun whenever you're legally permitted to do so. So that's what I did.
My program compliance was kind of spotty until the night I walked out my front door on my way to work and in between the building and my car two guys tried to rob me.
I never actually drew my gun that night. I put my hand on it and I told them to leave and they did.
I really don't ever leave the apartment complex unarmed but after that night I don't so much as go check the mail without a gun in my pocket.
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No movie theater.
No mall or outlet.
2 grocery stores.
Three block Main Street.
10 Police officers.
Almost no crime. The occasional break-in. No armed robberies.(every merchant is armed). Constitutional carry.
Do I really need to carry. No. But I do because I can.
No mall or outlet.
2 grocery stores.
Three block Main Street.
10 Police officers.
Almost no crime. The occasional break-in. No armed robberies.(every merchant is armed). Constitutional carry.
Do I really need to carry. No. But I do because I can.
I don't have the decades of firearms use and ownership, that many of others here have, particularly our LE friends. Thirteen years ago, at the age of 50 I got into it. I have purchased many firearms that have turned into quite a nice little nest egg. I practice with each platform weekly. Living at the time, in western Washington and having to commute through Tacoma and Seattle daily. Then, even watching the decline in respectable people living in my own neighborhood. I started living by the quote; “Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.”
The fact that I may need one, sooner or later.
When I'm awake I am carrying a gun, inside or outside my home. When I am asleep there is a gun nearby for when I awaken....I don't need a scenario.....
heeter3
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My ace in the hole 24/7.
SnidelyWhiplash
Member
No scenario necessary. It’s my right to do so or not.
Sevens said it for me. I rarely wear a gun, but I do like to have one close by.
I don’t think one should ever need to justify being armed. “Society” would like us to believe otherwise peaceful people are somehow “unbalanced” for wanting to have access to a weapon. I think people who sincerely believe that and encourage the sentiment are probably the ones who are unbalanced.
I don’t think one should ever need to justify being armed. “Society” would like us to believe otherwise peaceful people are somehow “unbalanced” for wanting to have access to a weapon. I think people who sincerely believe that and encourage the sentiment are probably the ones who are unbalanced.
Pretty much says it all right there. If it is always on your person, except in the shower or asleep in bed, it isn't an issue.
Some people can't imagine wearing pants with a belt on, wearing a wrist watch, wearing shoes, you name it, unless there is a "reason". Some just do it out of habit, never bother with needing a reason.
This isn't meant to sound snarky or "tactically elite", however you define it. Just habit.
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bushmaster1313
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To all who responded “All the time”
We will all assume you never get to the Post Office — where it is still as strict as New Jersey was.
We will all assume you never get to the Post Office — where it is still as strict as New Jersey was.
SGT ROCK 11B
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So you never saved anybody?
Evil is everywhere. I prevented somebody's daughter from being kidnapped/raped by a paroled rapist. I prevented somebody's two sons being abducted by a pedophile. I prevented a women being murdered by her ex (he was a good ole boy from Montana but when he was drinking he was evil).
Those were all on my days off. Plain clothes, plain car but a Colt .45 pistol.
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SGT ROCK 11B
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TIP: Always keep your Nightstand revolver loaded my friend.
I carry or have handy all the time. The only thing different is when I'm going into Chicago. Then I change from a small hideout to a large frame of 9MM or 11MM. I'm told I look like a cop even when I'm just walking around minding my own business. Best to be ready and not need it....
SGT ROCK 11B
Member
Bad people like fugitives can be anywhere. A Marine, his wife and two children were victims. He had a pistol in his glovebox but never used it to protect his family. I remember this Case very well.
"You can have anything you want in this world, as long as you know how to steal it." Epic Releasing has debuted a trailer for an action thriller titled Last Rampage, about the true story of a notorious prison break in Arizona in 1978. The film stars Robert Patrick as Gary Tison, a convicted murderer who escaped from prison with his cellmate, played by Chris Browning. While the sheriff, played by Bruce Davison, was hunting him down the two went on a murderous rampage.
"You can have anything you want in this world, as long as you know how to steal it." Epic Releasing has debuted a trailer for an action thriller titled Last Rampage, about the true story of a notorious prison break in Arizona in 1978. The film stars Robert Patrick as Gary Tison, a convicted murderer who escaped from prison with his cellmate, played by Chris Browning. While the sheriff, played by Bruce Davison, was hunting him down the two went on a murderous rampage.
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