Tell friends you're carrying when in their house?

[eldirector]

Heres a thought.....If they are truly your friends they will already know.

QFT.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Necro poster..........

Averaging 6 posts per year, I wonder if they are all necro-posts. I also wonder which liberal part of the state. It may be another 2 months before we find out. Bloomington? Broad Ripple?

 

[rdavis006]

All my friends know I carry on regular basis and most of them either carry or own firearms so never really been an issue. For the few friends that don't I don't tell and never been a problem

 

[Cameramonkey]

All my friends know I carry on regular basis and most of them either carry or own firearms so never really been an issue. For [STRIKE]the few friends that don't[/STRIKE] my acquaintances I don't tell and never been a problem

FIFY

 

[rdavis006]

If all your friends know you carry, what do you do when a friend of a friend breaks into you home and takes your gun. My advice is to CC and keep your mouth shut. If you want bragging rights, do it here.

I suppose if that is your worry my only thought would be maybe you should choose your friends wiser.

 

[fjw2]

I believe it's best to keep it to yourself.

 

[MohawkSlim]

I know my social circles are different than others but I'm tired of people toning down gun ownership as if it's something to be hidden. There's a time and a place for it, sure, but what's wrong with letting every single person you meet know, "OF COURSE I'm carrying a gun. I'm an American. You mean you don't carry one? What's wrong with you???"

The tide is turning. We're gaining supporters all the time!

 

[PLM2001]

I never volunteer that information. If they don't know that I am carrying then I am doing it right in my opinion.

 

[uncle griz]

I never volunteer that information. If they don't know that I am carrying then I am doing it right in my opinion.

+1

 

[Cemetery-man]

I have always made a point to know which of my friends (old and new) are pro and anti. When I am visiting friends who don't want guns in their house I simply leave the gun locked in the car safe.

 

[Vigilant]

My circle of friends is such that if I'm at their house and DON'T have a gun, they will provide one, but only after much deserved brow beating and ridicule! As far as aquintances, what they don't know...

 

[croy]

Friends and family know I carry. I've only had 1 person give me guidelines to carrying in his home. Which is no round chambered. I don't agree, he has his reasons that I don't agree with but his house his rules.

 

[Audie Murphy]

All my friends know I carry so there is no suprise when I show up to their house packing heat. LOL

 

[femurphy77]

Friends don't care, others don't matter.

 

[dudley0]

Friends don't care, others don't matter.

Now that is quote worthy!

 

[HKUSP]

Friend. It's an easy word to throw around. There are degrees of non-hostiles with me.

Acquaintance. Most people that aren't strangers to me fit in this category. An acquaintance to me is someone I expect not to try to kill me at this moment but deserves watching none the less.

Friend. Someone proven more friendly than an acquaintance, usually through a shared experience or two. I don't expect them to plot against me. I still watch them.

Allies. People I trust with my life. They can watch my six, drink my beer without asking, eat my food, shoot my guns if I'm
around. Friends graduate to this level after years of shared experiences and tribulation. We help each other, and spend much time roasting meat and downing ale.

I suppose I'm not that much of a social butterfly, but most of my time spent out of work with other people would be with allies. I have a tight group that I expect to see in Valhalla. One of them will probably hand me my first horn of mead. They are all armed, and take it as granted that I am too. On rare occasions I have seen one or two be visibly disappointed I was unarmed at the time. I went to Sam's Club today with two such allies. Between them and myself an assailant would have been facing five handguns with a total of 97 available rounds and three sharp knives. We're not looking for trouble, but if it starts we're not about to give it a comfortable place to sit.

I had a dear friend that passed away three years ago that used to hug me and feel around playing the "where's the gun today" game. I miss her. It's part of me to be armed, and I don't waste time around people that don't embrace that aspect of what is me. YMMV.

 

[The Bubba Effect]

On the rare occasion that I am not carrying, I tell my friends.

 

[bobzilla]

My circle of friends is such that if I'm at their house and DON'T have a gun, they will provide one, but only after much deserved brow beating and ridicule! As far as aquintances, what they don't know...

My best friend had let his LTCH expire and I have done that exact thing to him a few times whn he's been over. In all fairness, he was a volunteer PO for a small town up north and had the badge for a while and never thought to check the expiration date (we both got ours pre-lifetime). Silly goose.

 

[10mmMarc]

My friends carry also, and we typically all carry the same thing, Govt.1911 , so it's no surprise. If it was someone I don't know too well, I don't bother telling them, it's none of their business.

 

[schoedog2323]

I carry everywhere even in my own home. Family and close friends usually ask me if they Don't see a gun more than if I am carrying. You should never let another person dictate where or how you carry because you never know what might happen. Always better to have it and not need it then to need it and not have it.