This is very true. I mean if things are deteriorating rapidly, you may want that option without having to worry about getting arrested for being armed.
Actually what prompted the question was simple and less about carrying in the everyday. I was just planning some hiking trips in areas where I have personally encountered mountain lions and bear.
And in some area the trails have lots of human activity more city folks who aren’t used to firearms yet want to be in secluded areas of the state with no protection. And give me strange looks knowing the dangers, and although I wouldn’t be there for hunting I refuse to be out there unprotected. As since most my trips I travel alone.
I was just thinking if these people give me looks in the middle of nowhere what would they do if it were to be everyday thing, and how many would partake before they become numb to the sight of firearms.
Some of these trips I can choose a discrete carry bag, vs others where I need supplies and have no room for a SBR in a bag and have to have it slung over my shoulder.
So it just got me wondering about daily carry so I thought I’d ask who if any would want one with them. As the saying goes a pistol is good to get you to your rifle, and if I had a choose id rather a rifle than a pistol, but from a common sense view a rifle is not a good or practical choice, for multiple reasons, yet at times I wouldn’t mind one with me. So for me it’s a G19 for my daily carry.
If I’m out in the sticks hiking or whatever, I’ve got a rifle with me no matter what. I try to discretely carry it at my side or something if I come across others. But I don’t care if they’re unhappy with it.
We used to carry long guns at a Peralta Trail here in AZ… then went back after several years and the trail had become high traffic and had a full parking lot and gobbs of kids and stuff… so I didn’t like having my AR with all the people around.
I did an experiment for one week wearing my Mauser C96 with the wooden stock holster. I walked everywhere and biked everywhere. Noone batted an eye in Oregon, not even the cops. 99.99999 percent the people didn’t even know what it was. The only person that recognized it was an old taiwanese guy who was a former Nationalist soldier in Chi and then immigrated. He wanted to buy it from. me right away. One curious hipster asked if it was a gun and I told him yes… and was stating it sure looked like a carpenters belt with a hammer.
I just keep seeing episodes of the Rifleman in my head. Seemed perfectly normal carrying a rifle, going about your business with your 9 year old boy. I think people can’t wrap their head around the AR-15 platform. It’s never seen as a “winchester”. Usually only as a battle rifle. Not enough “normal” exposure as a plain old rifle.
Am I right to assume that (here in TX) if you carry an AR “pistol” in you backpack, you’d need a CHL to carry it?
Well, describing the whole get up would have bogged down the servers. 
Yes, I believe you would.
Carry, yes - a CHL is needed.
Travel in your car, no. One may carry a loaded concealed pistol in their vehicle without a CHL. But if you want to bebop down the avenue with it, ya need the magic laminated card.
LOL, true. Just the description of the ankle holster for the Hi-Point would be 6 pages alone.
I don’t think it was actually normal outside of TV land, but I wasn’t around in the 1880s, so I don’t know.
In my grandparents house used to be a picture of my Dad and his brother when they were maybe 12-14 years of age walking down the sidewalk with slung rifles ('03 Springfield and 1917 Enfield). Every weekend they would walk from their house to a local shooting gallery on the edge of town. This would have been in the 1950s.
But did they carry their rifles everywhere? Did their parents? Or were they just carried to and from the range with the occasional stop at the drugstore for a soda or ice cream?
Of course not, those were heavy rifles. :laugh:
I’m not trying to say it was like the wild west were everyone had a rifle. But back in the 1950s junior high kids could walk through town with rifles and a back pack of ammo and nobody would raise an eyebrow. Even during the late 70s and early 80s most of the main street diners and coffee shops had a rack where you could store your cased firearm during hunting season.
There was also the short lived time my father owned a Derringer and carried it in his coat pocket to go shooting at another spot on the edge of town. There was a hill overlooking a lake (with thankfully nothing behind it but woods) and my father (in his early teens) went prone on top of the hill with a saucer and teacup hold and fired at a floating leaf in the center of the lake (perhaps a 25 yard shot) and missed by a few inches.
Duly impressed my father was amazed at the accuracy of such a small handgun. He double cocked the hammer to take another shot at the leaf and completely missed the lake. He later sold the Derringer.
Had you mentioned this early on, you would have received different responses. The scenario you laid out is much different than bopping down the avenue to Chipotbucks.
Every time I hit the trail I have an AR. SW Missouri has more than enough reasons to do so, the expansion of aggressive feral hogs or the abundance of backwoods meth labs to name a couple. You would be a fool to romp around the ozarks without one.
The Duggars dont bring ARs and they seem to do just fine. 
Pistol concealed. Rifle in the car.
Confirmed. I always have the 9mm in the truck.
Under the original scenario I suppose I would because I’m not going to be the only guy NOT carrying a rifle. That being said, I hope that never happens because it seems like it would be a huge pain in the ass. Where I live I don’t think I’ll ever have the fortune of any weapons becoming more socially acceptable though.