My wife just told me.....

[tskin]

So the wife, son, & I are on the way home from Buffalo Wings tonight & I had to run into Gander Mountain to get a new fluorescent hunting cap. After getting back in the truck & heading home I told her that they're giving $20 cash back on every $100 you spend Thanksgiving. Just kidding around I said - "is there anything you need, a new gun or anything." Surprisingly she said "I've been thinking about it & I think I want my own gun." She sees me carrying mine all the time & reading stories to her about people getting victimized. Apparently she's starting to realize that the police aren't always around to protect you, that or she was really impressed by Sandra Bullock in the movie "Blind Side" when she told a drug dealer that she's a "packing mom & member of the NRA." I told her she'd also need to take a gun safety class, and she didn't even object to that. She also said she's all for getting her lifetime concealment license....... Merry Christmas to me!!!!

 

[boman]

now that's gonna cost ya!

just kiddin---sounds like some fun in the future shooting together.

Steve

 

[redneckmedic]

SWEET, Makes Christmas easy.... accessorize, accessorize, accessorize, accessorize!!!

 

[JetGirl]

Good on her. The monkey sends congrats.

 

[ProudAmerican]

Good for her/you. My wife got her lifetime carry at the beginning of the year. She is so so about it when I carry but at least she wanted her permit to exersize the right and have it before they change the laws.

 

[HandK]

Good for her, and great for you, better to have and never need than to need and don't have!

 

[jclark]

Great!!! My wife has her LTCH and has carried for years.
Now if I can get her to help me clean guns after a trip to the range....

 

[Redskinsfan]

Sorry Annie, you're wrong

Good on her. The monkey sends congrats.

Annie,

You are not a monkey, you are an ape. A chimpanzee is a member of the ape family.

I love your posts, you put up the best videos.

Best regards,

Terry

 

[El Cazador]

Annie,

You are not a monkey, you are an ape. A chimpanzee is a member of the ape family.

I love your posts, you put up the best videos.

Best regards,

Terry

You're beating a dead monk...horse, guy. She wants it to be a monkey. I'd...back away slowly and look for cover. I hear there's a heat component to the concussion...

 

[LEaSH]

Monkeys are good people.

I was about to start a thread very similar to OP's about late last week.

My gal. The love of my life. My political sparing partner (she's a dem). Anyway, she asks me that morning that she would like to learn how to use the pistols that I have. I think I contained my glee enough by only saying "ok, after thanksgiving, we'll take a day for both of us to go over everything."

I felt excited for us as a couple and a little pensive about not turning her off by giving her too much, too fast. She came to me about it, so I definitly don't want to push it.

I'm probably going to need some advice from some folks here. I've compiled the four basic safety rules, some basic range rules, and even some physics/ballistic info that seems to illustrate what we are doing when we shoot. She likes technical information sometimes, so I only added it to hold her interest.

It was bound to happen, but I want everything to go very well.

 

[BloodEclipse]

SWEET, Makes Christmas easy.... accessorize, accessorize, accessorize, accessorize!!!

What woman doesn't like to accessorize?

 

[bulldog]

Congrats. Life is sure a bit more pleasant when you are on the same page.

 

[DRob]

Nothing like it

Having your life partner as a shooting partner is the best! Even if she outshoots you and won't clean the guns.

 

[spasmo]

I find that every activity I do is better if down with my spouse. I love spending time with him and go to the range with him most of the time. We have a daughter who is not interested in it at all so I don't force her to go too often. It's an outdoor range though so she sits in the car playing her DS most of the time anyway.

I'm glad all of these women are getting interested in firearms and hopefully the time spent with you guys will be of quality time as well.

 

[jwglock]

Smart woman!

 

[smiley69_300]

Thats awesome man. My wife and I decided that I would get my permit first which I already got. And she is gonna get hers after the holidays. So I know what ya feelin. I am excited for to get hers.

 

[one more]

tskin, That is Great!!

My wife has been talking more about getting her LTCH, then her hours got cut so she wants to what a bit. And also getting out shooting more. So that is a good thing.