Thread: How many people CCW here?

Originally Posted by Dorado

I have to agree with you on that mhailey. In person, noone knows that I carry, but online it doesn't really matter, I'll never see any of you and Y'all have never see me.

I know what you mean by no one knows. I had a friend that I knew for a good while before realizing it. Only reason he told me was a combination of me talking about getting my CCW and inviting him to the range. I also know of a few people who carry, but you will never know. Then I know others who keep it mostly concealed but you can see it if you look, which is most common around me.

I agree your best bet all the time is having no one know it is there. Even though open carry is a right in many places. I will open carry sometimes whenever I turn 21, but only in certain areas

Originally Posted by syslight

So today when i was leaving the church the preacher man said "peace be with you" so i opened my jacket and said "it always is" i thought he was going to wet himself.

Hahahahahaha, I go to a church that has quite a few people that carry, one I know personally, one is police, and I have been told there are at least 3-4 others as well as a few more that are suspected. I'm kind of curious now how many guns are in our church on Sunday mornings.

I am gonna have to remember that response to that.

Originally Posted by Bruno

I never understood that about the US. Here in Belgium, offensive weapons are illegal to carry.
Guns are illegal, so by extension the knife ban (not banned to have them or use them, but carrying them for use as a weapon) is logical.

In the US, handguns are legal to CCW (subject to the regulations etc) but knives aren't, even though guns are much more dangerous to bystanders and the public at large. Knives can be more dangerous in close combat, buy you don't hear of knife-killing sprees, and in a confrontation, there is virtually no risk to bystanders either. And accidents are much less likely as well.

It doesn't really make sense imo.
Carrying a fixed blade openly (for use as a weapon) is silly imo because anyone close to you can draw it before you do.

Bruno, I think you are missing the larger point,-there's no such thing as an offencive weapon,unless its used in that manner. If I stab you the knife (or whatever I have used is being used in an offencive manner. That would be true whether it was a bat or a screwdriver,its how you use an object that makes it offencive or defencive,its the same crap they try to use here about so called "Assault Rifles" because there black and have those scary bayonet lugs,....If I attacked you with a hammer that was black would that make it an Assault Hammer? No the way it was used is what dictates what it is, and one last thing, even though you read about shootings here in the U.S.,its skewed to make it seem more frequent than it really is,compared to the amount of guns and people carrying them the number that are misused is quite small, I've been carrying a gun for thirty-one years and nobody even knows I have one on me,unless I want them to,and the mere presence of a gun stops many conflicts just by it's presence. Two last points, there are no accidents, just bad judgment,and poor handling skills,and unfortunately some use there gun as a set of balls that they weren't born with,and the second point is that the press NEVER,and I mean NEVER reports when an armed individual saves his or her own life BECAUSE they were armed.

I carry every day. At work it is a Ruger LCR because it's light. After that usually one of the 9mm Glocks, or a 1911.

Two fun things in one photo.

Snurd, that looks like lots of fun.

It is. My dad just made me some new steel targets I need to brake in. Get a nice shave in the morning, and some lead out later in the day.

That's what I did Saturday. I got cleaned up, shaved and headed to the range. We had a nice competition out there. I came in 6th out of about 30 so I'm happy. Even beat some people that took awards at the world championships last year. I don't think I'll ever compete like that but it's still fun.

Competition shooting is fun. I did it once a couple months back. My first time. I'm hoping to do more in the future. I used a Glock 34 and was very impressed at how well it shot.
I also use it for concealed carry.

Originally Posted by Snurd

Competition shooting is fun. I did it once a couple months back. My first time. I'm hoping to do more in the future. I used a Glock 34 and was very impressed at how well it shot.
I also use it for concealed carry.

I don't compete with my carry gun. I compete with single action guns. It requires more concentration and you really have to focus on your form and follow through.