Who do you tell you have a CHP?

[Smoke]

Just so we’re clear the two people that I did tell were told in the context of a conversation about self defense and the feasibility of getting a permit. It’s not like we were sitting around watching the Broncos and out of the blue I said “hey, guess what I got my permit.”

Beyond that I don’t disclose unless I am required to do so. Entering your home or you riding in my car doesn’t qualify.

I had to give a copy of my permit to the security ministry at church but other than that I don’t walk around with a sign that says PERMIT HOLDER on it and I don’t just throw it out as a conversation starter

 

[LenS]

We used to live in the Washington DC area about four miles from the Pentagon and the day after 911 as I was dropping my wife off in a cloud of black smoke coming off the Pentagon and as the radio was playing "We gotta get out of this place," we decided to pull up roots and move to a small town nestled in a hollow in the West Virginia mountains. We never regretted that decision. The only real problem we've run into here is that some of the locals apparently don't approve of interracial marriages, I'm an American Indian and my wife's a white Italian. We've had trash thrown in our backyard, obscenities written on the windows of our vehicles and fires lit on our front porch. We've called the police who of course did nothing and apparently act as stormtroopers for the "very religious" people in town, so we got our carry permits and ever since I let it slip to my neighbor that I carry a gun, the trouble's stopped.

That is truly sad in today's world. I'm very sorry that you had to go thru that.

 

[Springfeildkid585]

I should clarify that when I say "it", I mean the license, not the handgun. I don't just go out and announce it when I'm packing.
I think freely discussing the ownership and carry of firearms (unlike open carry) does a lot of good in normalizing it. I discuss firearms the same way I discuss religion: calmly and freely with an open mind and a polite tone.

 

[sac-gunslinger]

I hate acronyms. The OP should have stated it like this in the first place: Concealed Handgun Permit(CHP). This way every time CHP is used later, there is no ambiguity.

I second that. Here in the People's Republik CHP means one thing and one thing only, the Kalifornia Highway Patrol (should that be "KHP?"). I dug into this thread looking for CHP-specific content until I realized the OP was talking "CCW."

 

[sac-gunslinger]

maybe it is Utah thing

I think it is a "Utah thing." I lived there most of my adult life. Utah has, probably, the most open culture to gun ownership in the country. Even today, subjects (er, citizens) of other states can obtain a Utah CCW. The crowds at gun shows in the Beehive State look like crowds at NFL football games.

 

[Smoke]

I second that. Here in the People's Republik CHP means one thing and one thing only, the Kalifornia Highway Patrol (should that be "KHP?"). I dug into this thread looking for CHP-specific content until I realized the OP was talking "CCW."

I hate acronyms. The OP should have stated it like this in the first place: Concealed Handgun Permit(CHP). This way every time CHP is used later, there is no ambiguity.

I made myself very clear in the OP

So my question is do you tell people that you have a permit or do you not and why?

Context is everything

 

[Rastoff]

Sorry if I came off condescending. That was not my intent.

Yes, the context can help define previous words or abbreviations. Even so, many things are taken out of context all the time. Spelling out an acronym or abbreviation removes that possibility.

 

[brookside]

My wife knows I carry. The Captain of the local PD is a close friend, and knows. Others may "suspect" because of my love of the shooting sports, but they have the courtesy not to ask. I tell no one.