Who knows you CCW?

[Muss Muggins]

The people I intend to protect with my life know I always have a gun . . . That is all the notification that is necessary, in my humble opinion. Who others tell about their status is not for me to judge. Everybody is responsible for tending their own garden.

 

[WChris]

Who Knows I CCW

My kids (now adults), some of the guys at work and the wife.

I was carrying when we were dating (32 years ago) but sold my S&W model 29 at her request. She was afraid of guns and I didn't really see a need back then. In the past few years, more and more shootings began to appear on the news here in Miami that convinced my wife the need for me to carry. She realizes that carrying a firearm can protect her as well as myself. She has something no other family member of hers has, her own personal armed bodyguard. We call it my American Express card lol. Remember the old advertising slogan "Don't leave home without it"? I carry a 642-2 in a Galco Classic Lite shoulder holster. She now asks if I have it if she sees me heading to go out and she doesn't see it. Of course she doesn't ask if she's in the room when I'm getting dressed and sees me strap it on.

 

[3dots]

According to this information, Texas has near the lowest percentage of folks with carry permits.


http://crimepreventionresearchcente...y-Permit-Holders-Across-the-United-States.pdf

I believe that's true. It doesn't take into account those that carry without a permit though .

 

[Jim1392]

Even before I retired no one knew I was carrying off duty. I'm sure they assumed since I was working. Now I'm in a new state and I carry concealed. The new friends we have made here have no idea. And other then my wife no one will know.

 

[whataboutbob]

only the shadow knows

 

[Iggy]

Other than everybody on the durned internet, only my wife and a few very close and trusted friends know I carry.

 

[BigATC]

Thanks to all. I'm taking a class next month for a non-res UT/FL since I do some traveling. Still working on CA. This has been a thoughtful thread on a topic I hadn't really considered. Consider me informed!
BTW, I'll tell the wife.
Regards,

 

[Moe Mentum]

Nobody, and I don't talk politics or religion either !

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

When I'm at the Club shooting my carry guns, I figure anyone with a lick of sense knows that an LCP and 642 ain't for bullseye recreational shooting . Guys at the Club talk about carry guns and such. It's not secret decoder ring classified info. On the other hand, I'm not babbling about carry to the neighbors or the cashier at the supermarket. Of course the wife knows I carry.

 

[LenS]

My friends and family know. Anyone that I consider a friend whose house I go to, I will ask as a measure of respect. I've had one or two people through the years who have given me **** about it, and one who outright outed me trying to embarrass me at a friends get together. She walked up and said " You packin'". I said "Yup..sure am". She said " I bet you feel tough, huh ? ". I said no, I didn't feel tough, and if that was the reason she thought I carried, then she was more of an idiot than I thought she was. She walked away in a huff...all peeved, and a few of my friends asked questions and wanted to learn more about it. Out of about 7 that asked, 3 took me up on the offer to go learn to shoot, and 2 got their own permits to carry and carry regularly. I don't think it's good to broadcast it to the world that you CCW, but I feel that it's ANY gun owners responsibility to the sport to try to teach people why we are interested in it. Many non gun owners are only anti-gun because they don't know any better. If they learn and are interested, then they become another advocate.

All our social (non gun folks) friends are typical M******* moonbats. If they had a clue I carried, we'd never go anywhere. Thus, no reason to ask permission any more than any young man needs to advise hosts that he carries condoms in his wallet just because he's visiting someone else's home. [If your state requires permission, you have my sympathy and this may not apply.]

My Wife sees me dress and thus may know if I am carrying or not, but she normally doesn't pay attention one way or another.

Anyone else, it's none of their business and even if asked I'm likely to dodge the question.

I don't discuss my concealed carry only because I maintain that it is unremarkable. I don't tell friends, "Hey, look I'm wearing a watch!" or "Did you know that I'm carrying a wallet?" To me the sidearm is no more exceptional than a watch or wallet.

Exactly.

I think it's good that people DON'T know that your are packing heat. Let them guess.

Agreed. I'm a firearms instructor and most that know me know that, however don't ask/don't tell goes a long way. Most of the moonbat social contacts we have probably believe it to be illegal to carry in MA, so they'd never give it a thought. It is only a very tiny percentage of licensed folks in MA (you need a license just to possess) carry and most only occasionally so it isn't expected here. Even when I worked for the PD, only 2 officers that I know carried either regularly or sometimes when off duty.

I run a monthly get-together of folks from our regional gun forum. I don't know who is or isn't carrying then either and don't care. It's not even a topic of discussion amongst gun people.

 

[soad]

I see you've never been to PA.

Amen my Keystone brother!

I work out in a rural setting with about 75% female to 25% male employees.....I can think off the top of my head 12 employees who have a permit and keep a firearm handy.

A new firearm purchase is met with excitement and chatter. Needless to say, everyone knows I carry.

 

[ClayCow]

Most of my friends. I dont keep it a secret but i also dont advertise. But if you dont tell, how you going to recruit friends into ccw?

 

[DreamerzCC]

My family and the people I shoot with.


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[bhayles]

I have some family members who are the LAST people I want to know I carry...LOL.

 

[mbullism]

The thing that I really don't understand about this thread is all the responses essentially saying " My wife doesn't even know when I carry."

I've known my wife for 18 years and we've been married for 16. I was carrying a gun on our first date (although she didn't know it then) and nothing has changed since. She happened to walk in the room while I was typing ths post and I asked her "Linda, do you ever even question that I'm carrying a gun?" First she looked at me like I'm an idiot ( I get that look a lot) then she said "No." and walked out of the room

I've owned guns of one sort or another since way before I met my wife, and she always knew it... One night headed out she saw me tucking in an IWB carry, and told me that she wanted me to tell her whenever I was CC so she'd know, to which I replied "just assume I always am, and you'll be right more often than not..."

She's never asked since

I once had a co-worker recognize the belt clip from a tuckable kydex holster, apparently his brother in law had the same rig and he was familiar... in front of a third party he points it out, and exclaims that I'm "carryin' hot" (lol, whatever THAT is )... I calmly denied/avoided/de-fused/changed the subject, but afterwards pulled him aside for a quiet conversation:

me: Tom, in the entire time I've known you have you ever known me to talk about guns?

Tom: "No."

ever known me to brag... display... promote them?

"No."

Then w t f makes you think I want you doing it FOR me?

(He got the message loud and clear, and has gone on to get his own LTC since... I never ask if he's carryin', but every once in a while I ask him what the definition of "concealed" is.... nuff said.)

 

[stang4man]

If I'm awake, I'm carrying indoors or out. My wife knows and my daughter who is 21 and son who is 18 know. My boss knows about my license and figures i do and gave me permission to carry at work. My CCW instructor told me (and my wife who took the course with me) only tell the people you would trust with your bank account numbers that you carry. That made sense to me then and still does now.

 

[wheelyfun66]

I'm from Dallas and assume all native Texans and the like (southern drawl folks) are carrying. And, I assume foreigners and northeasterners are not.

You know what they say about ASSuming?
I'm from the Northeast, and NO permit is required to conceal carry in my home state. I also have permits to carry in most of the New England states, so.......careful about assuming!

We ain't all Leftist nanny-staters, ya know!!!

 

[LimaCharlie]

I never knew that carrying a gun included a membership in a double-secret society until the internet was invented by Al Gore. All of our relatives, friends, and neighbors know my wife and I both carry.

 

[Smoke]

I never knew that carrying a gun included a membership in a double-secret society until the internet was invented by Al Gore. All of our relatives, friends, and neighbors know my wife and I both carry.

You just haven't run into that one person who WILL. NOT. SHUT. UP. ABOUT. IT and keeps making a much bigger deal about it than he should

When you do , you'll get it.

 

[koine2002]

My immediate family knows. I'm a pastor and my fellow elders know I carry as I carry when I preach. My nephew knows because I was armed at appendix when he decided to surprise spar with me and punched the gun. A couple of my colleagues at the college I prof at know as they're gun friendly, have CHLs, and we like to go to the range together. It's a hoot when we show up in suits and ties to the range after a committee meeting. You'd be surprised at how many academics actually appreciate guns even if they're really screwy in other areas.