Stickers only on the safe, in my bedroom.
If forced into a choice where I can legally open carry, or illegally conceal it, I will conceal it every time. If its properly concealed…nobody will ever know. I treat every public space as a non permissive environment where someone catching a brief glimpse of your gun has consequences. I have yet to see an open carrier in my area (Maine/NH/VT) that wasn’t a complete assclown with a garbage gun/holster combo. To include a guy at walmart wearing an ankle holster…in shorts. Open carry by an armed citizen is not the deterrent you think it is, its usually an invitation. And now when the active shooter is selecting victims, some do gooder can yell “Hey, you have a gun, help us!”
Ok so you openly admit you will break the law rather than follow it.
If illegally carrying a gun and your crazed gunman appears, you shoot them and go directly to jail. No wonder people hate gun owners!
I would recommend you follow your username.
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Yep. I don’t carry as faithfully as I used to. But here in AZ, it used to be, or maybe still is, illegal to carry in an establishment that serves alcohol. (I think restaurants are ok now if you’re not drinking?). Anyway, you had to carry in violation of the law.
Yep. I don’t carry as faithfully as I used to. But here in AZ, it used to be, or maybe still is, illegal to carry in an establishment that serves alcohol. (I think restaurants are ok now if you’re not drinking?). Anyway, you had to carry in violation of the law.
I do have a subdued MAGPUL logo sticker (black on black tint). It’s kind of hard to see and a douchey lib or a booger eating gang banger knowing what that logo is. I’ve never had anyone make mention of it in many years.
Non gun owners hate open carriers more than they do the concealed carriers they HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT.
Without a doubt. Nothing draws the ire of a gun hater like a visible firearm on an obviously non-LE person.
Without a doubt. Nothing draws the ire of a gun hater like a visible firearm on an obviously non-LE person.
Advice I certainly live by. At a minimum, WHATEVER sticker you may put on your vehicle, someone will take issue with it.
I don’t advertise my preferences/lifestyle/politics.
(My range bag has a “FUKK You” sticker, but that’s different.)
So you’re saying someone NOT breaking the law and minding there own business is hated more than a person that illegally shoots someone in a no gun zone?
I’m going to have to throw a flag on that one.
Every news station for miles around will have coverage of that illegal event, because it proves what they preach vs something that most people have no clue you are doing. Most non gun owners do not see OC guns, but news headlines of doing illegal things gets everyone’s attention.
The county I live in has almost double the population of Mr illegal carry is better entire state, so his opinion is just that, his closed minded opinion.
I live in the same county as the 44th most dangerous city in the world, and can say for a fact, the mythical “target on your back” is just that.
One ghetto idiot had a gun in his back pocket get snatched here, but I can post numerous links of CCer’s losing there guns as well, so that argument is a giant waste of time about a dozen from each camp had lost guns, so argueing about that tiny number is not really something to waste energy on.
A group called Michigan open carry here has numerous members (over 1k attended an event at tge state capital nit long ago) so people OC here all the time without issue, yet the garbage spewed about oc being bad isn’t happening.
My point, if people don’t like OC, they should CC themselves and shut up, as opposed to bitching like Joe biden and beto about how pro gun they are but ramble on and on like an antigunner.
Did Mr illegal carry is better tell the person ankle carrying while wearing shorts that it was not a good idea because ABC reasons, or just whine about it online, I’d bet the latter? If I see someone doing something stupid I’ll take two minutes and try to educate them.
I’m wondering if the haters here bitched as much about homos kissing in public or women breast feeding in public which both were frowned upon a decade ago, but are common now because those people didn’t eat their own like gun owners do.
We can go to pm’s if you want to continue the discussion to not derail the thread further.
Open carriers are the village idiots of the gun community - they’re part of the community, but most of us wish they would just grow a brain. One foot solidly in Fudd-ville and the other in them-is-ma-raats-ville. Tactically unsupportable, and socially anathema.
Not to say there aren’t certain RARE situations where open carry is necessary, or concealed becomes overly impractical, because there are. But they are RARE.
Dupe.
Pretty much. If I have to open carry (run into pay for gas really quick, etc.)… I try to cover my weapon with my arm, my body position, etc.
Agreed. Not saying letting your gun be seen in a rare situation is the end of the world, but proudly strutting around with an open carry weapon on the regular like you’re somehow displaying your manhood, is solid loser territory.
So I roll a shoot me first vest, am I really fooling anyone? Anyone who might do this or that because I open carry is still gonna know I’m carrying and will still be able to try and do this or that.
So what is the actual difference? Cops still know I have a gun, criminals still know I have a gun, anyone who carries concealed and has a 4th grade education still knows I have a gun. When I lived in South Florida I used to pick out CCW guys all day long.
Large fanny pack? Might as well say GUN on it.
Reporters vest? Might as well say GUN on it.
T shirt with open button down in May to Oct? Might as well say GUN on it.
And the guys with the super tuck, deep conceal thing going on…might as well leave the damn thing at home because you’ll never get to it in time as most problems are already “in progress.”
And saying OC is about “projecting” some kind of image is as retarded as saying “Guys with ARs with suppressors and lights are wannabe seals who couldn’t make the cut.” And there are people that actually believe that crap too.
I’ve even heard to anti gun crowd say “people who hide their weapons do so because they know what they are doing is wrong.”
So no matter what you own, how you carry it…there will be large numbers of people who will become experts on why you are doing what you are doing because they know HOW YOU THINK and HOW YOU FEEL.
Wisdom ^
Agree on OC, as they do more political harm, than good.
But to say they’re asserting an implied missing manhood overlooks the greater truth: gun owners themselves make widespread use of language and lexicon of the Gay Rights Lobby, calling themselves a “community” like the homosexuals do, and regularly circulate “news” gleaned from “tweets” like teenage girls, do.
Grown, adult men doing this. If these things are not a damning indictment of lost American masculinity, I don’t know what is.
It would be hilariously amusing if it were not so shameful.
Borrowed political expediency? Can’t say it’s not ok for X if you already said it’s ok for Y?
Quoted for truth.