Why Bother To Conceal If You're Going To Announce You're Armed To The World?

Some people don't have a lot to hang their hat on. It's something to be very proud of as not everyone can pass the test(s). While I can't fault them for living their live their way I would never do it.

I believe that concealed carry is also to keep the folks out there with evil in their minds on edge as they have no idea who is and who isn't. I don't want to open carry as IMHO it would make me a target for those who would do bad things.

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Don't know whether any of you folks have noticed it or not, but those people who would mouth off to anyone and everyone that they are carrying concealed are the same people who feel compelled to blab on and on ad nauseum about EVERY meaningless aspect of their lives. Ugh.
 
My friends know what I carry and that I carry as much as they know what car I drive. I dont know what you consider "friends" but my friends and I have the same intrests. We drink together, we order ammo together, we go shooting together. Its kinda hard not to know your friends habits. Every time I have a new interesting gun for cc or not, I show it to them and they show me what they bought. My friends know I carry just as much as I know what they like to eat, drink or whether they like blonds or red heads. When youre good friends with someone for 15 years you get to know them and they get to know you.

Otherwise I dont walk around telling anyone. A gun is not an accessory its a tool. No different than my pocket knife, keys, wallet. I dont show my wallet or belt and same with my gun

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I have not been carrying 100% of the time - working up to it - but the first few times I did my wife did not even noticed. there have been a handful of times where I made a comment about whether I was or was not to her. but got to thinking that is likely not a good idea - until I go 100% maybe - don't need her changing her behavior thinking I am armed when I am not. Which is not to say that either of us go looking for trouble etc - but when within a couple blocks of our house including across the street and next door to my parents there have been break-ins and copper theft (vacant home) and even a shots fired half way up my parents' street - I have never before felt that potential danger is lurking in my own neighborhood - of course I suppose it always was - I was just not nearly as aware of it or it wasn't quite so close to home.
 
OK, so I'm getting in touch with my feminine side making a decision between a 638, LCR 38 and BG 38. But I now it seems I'm getting blonde roots too!?!

I did not understand the first comment about NYC, was it a slam? I do not live there now but did for nine years in the 80s. NYC is a great place to live and work. I made the decision that I didn't want to raise a family there but in hind sight it would have been a lot better than the North Shore of Chicago. Of the thousands of people I interacted with over the years I don't think there were more than a hand full that treated me rude with a reason. I got it from folks but almost always I deserved it.

New York is the best place to learn and grow as a young adult. Two of my nieces are there now and love it. It took me a while to get used to it, grew up in Rochester, NY. But once I did it could not have been better.
 
Aside from my immediate family and very close friends whom also took the CC class with me. No one around me knows me or my ole lady carry. My neighbors dont know and we like to walk around the block with a few of them every evening just for a little exercise.

I also have friends who that i consult with on a normal basis whom also do not know that I carry. As for as im concerned, its no ones business that I carry a weapon on me. I even have very close LEO buddies that have no clue i carry on a regular basis. And I actually train with most of them at the range, LoL.
 
Years ago before I retired I had so much stuff on my Sam Brown belt I hardly had room for any keepers. People commented on my version of Batman's utility belt. Now being retired since 2008. This week I bought a Shield 40. Everything else I have is to large for CCW. My wife asked where I was going to put it? My left side has 2 buck knife cases on my belt. One has my reading glasses, and a ball point pen. The other one has my comb and another item. On my right hand side 2-4 o'clock positions are a small camera, my SOG TF-7 knife, my key ring with about a dozen keys, and then my Samsung G III in a Otter case. I think she has a point, where will I carry it. Not in the front, my belly got too big.
 
To me, a firearm is an item of dress just like my wallet, my keys or my phone. I don't leave my home with out it.

I think I've mentioned this before but most of my friends are church friends not gun friends they know I own guns and the guys on the security team know I carry but most of my friends don't have permits so them coming to my home armed has never been an issue. Having said that, if I know you well enough to open my home to you I know you well enough that your carrying in my home isn't a concern.

As for me carrying in your home, I try not to make an issue where there isn't one to begin with.

My in-laws are pretty clueless about concealed carry. I don't put the issue in their face but I do carry in their home and my concealment is such that they either have never noticed or never commented.

Early on my wife asked me not to carry there to "keep the peace" but when I pointed out that her daughter's meth head husband had a Glock shoved down the crack of his *** the last time he was there that went by the wayside.

FWIW I attended a security team gathering earlier this year at one of the guy's home and I know at least three of us were armed. During the gathering guns were never mentioned and no guns were displayed in any way. They were simply treated as if they didn't exist.
 
even though my wife knows that i do not leave the house without the gun, she will occasionally ask and my answer is never yes or no but "what do you think?"

i have told friends and coworkers, when on the subject of carrying and to answer questions they may have, but i would never start a conversation with "hey, guess what, I have a gun on me, bet ya didn't know that!"
 
In my case it helped my situation.
I love livin' out here in small town West Virginia but there seems to be a certain element here that doesn't approve of an American Indian male being married to a white Italian woman. We've had our house vandalized, trash thrown in our yard, obscenities written on the windows of our vehicles and fires lit on our front porch. We called the police, who did nothing.
I was out in my back yard grillin' meat and asked my neighbor if he had seen any of the vandals. He said that he hadn't seen anything and I informed him that I'm armed against escalation, including having a carry permit and keeping a firearm on my person.
After that the problems stopped.
There's an Asian couple that used to live down the block that got run out of town. I'm not runnin', too much has been stolen from my people, not this time and if all it takes is letting it slip to my neighbor that I carry a gun, then that works for me.
 
I have carried concealed for over 40+ years. The only ones who know that I am carrying are my friends mostly LEO'S and my family. They are all carrying to. That's why it called concealed carry. The 2nd amendment is a great document and open carry is good for those who feel the need to show the world. I prefer to keep them guessing.
 
speedyquad said:
even though my wife knows that i do not leave the house without the gun, she will occasionally ask and my answer is never yes or no but "what do you think?"
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My wife never asks me and I don't ask her....we both carry as a matter of daily routine. A two gun family is better than a one gun family. She is actually a better shot than me most of the time. When we are out and about her level of awareness is probably higher than mine just because she is a woman. Nothing better than a wife who backs you up.
 
Beats me! Back East, we would never talk about a carry weapon, let alone display it. Now, out West, things seem different. I've had 2 LGS clerks hand me their carry weapon for me to inspect. We would never do this back East. I've also had 2 persons show me the CCW snub revolvers they carried in their pants pockets. I never asked them to do so. I smiled politely and complimented them on their choice of hardware, why make an enemy by questioning them?

I made some enemies on another thread by saying that some folks seem to treat a CCW as a social thing, rather than a serious matter. Maybe I'm wound too tightly on this, in the opinion of others, but I don't know what could be more serious than carrying a concealed weapon to protect one's life and family. Have a nice day.
 
Why would that so called instructor in the thread opener tell his class that he and probley "they" should inform a guard at a business that they are packing concealed? Concealed means the guard shouldnt notice it unless they are being sloppy or whatever. I think its like several people I have seen that got to be para medics or got to work in a hospital and "accidently on purpose" wear a stethoscope around their neck shopping or whatever.
 
Mcwsky09 said:
I have not been carrying 100% of the time - working up to it
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I'm curious. What's the deal with "working up to it"? What is preventing you from carrying all the time? I wonder because I put mine on the first day I was able, and I carry all the time, everywhere, except where it's illegal. There are times when I feel slightly nervous when passing a guard or police officer, but then I remember, I am just exercising my rights in a perfectly legal manner, and that "concealed is concealed." They apparently never know it's there.

So, in what situation would you feel you're not yet ready to carry? And why? Just wondering.


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