Asked if I had a gun on me.

[BruceRDucer]

Maybe I'm crazy but my response would be " What business is it of yours? "--Treo

Yes, I might tend to answer that way also. This is a highly personal question.

It isn't of necessity anybody's business. In this case, if the question is friendly, it works out okay to just come right out and tell them.

On the other hand, some questions have a hostile intention. After all, this was a highly personal question, equivalent to asking:

"Do you have "Fruit of the Looms" on beneath your trousers?"

If it's anybody's business what I have on my person, I'll tell them. If it isn't, I can deal with it other ways.

I can be funny, saying with a smile; "What is this, a test?" (grinny grin)
or...."Are you doing body cavity checks too?"

Or I can be defensive and say:

"Perhaps my business isn't welcome here?" ...accompanied by an inquiring look.

Anywho. This reminds of the time I was in a gunshop and a clerk asked me if I was in the FBI? I quizically answered, "No," with a slight grin on my face. I should have asked him why he thought that. The could only reason that I was in really good shape at the time, had a buzzcut, and was looking at .45s - that was my best uneducated guess. It was really weird though.--My Rock Fight
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Gee, maybe I should try wearing my FBI SWAT TEAM bill cap around more. It was in a thrift store when I found it!

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[Seancass]

I honestly didn't know any adult males still owned, let alone wore, a fanny pack before i started frequenting this site. Maybe it's just because i'm not looking for them.

 

[Ed DCB]

"If he contnued in any way about asking me if I had a gun, I might ask him if he saw a bulge in my pants would he then ask me if it was a gun too?"

Yes, of course!

 

[The Bushmaster]

My 64 year old younger brother does. Of course we both don't really care what other people think of us. No I carry IWB because I don't like fanny packs...

 

[Loosedhorse]

Has happened to me a lot...

getting asked this question (by friends, since they all know I like to shoot recreationally and I collect guns).

My standard responses are:

(If I'm feeling cute): "Why? Do I need one here?"

(Most other occasions):"No." (Inapprorpriate question asks for an untrue response--and my license says "concealed carry," so I feel I'm legally obligated to keep it a secret.)

(If asked by law-enforcement during car-stop or any other situation, while my hands are motionless and in plain sight): "Officer, I have a legal carry permit, and I am carrying today. Tell me what to do next."

 

[The Bushmaster]

I still like the "No. It's a colostomy bag. It's still warm. Ya wanna feel it?"

 

[zxcvbob]

I still like the "No. It's a colonostopy bag. It's still warm. Ya wanna feel it?"

The word is "colostomy". HTH

 

[The Bushmaster]

Thanks...Came within a hair's breath of having to wear one and I still can't spell it. Scared the snot out of me though...

 

[csmkersh]

Here in texas, the only one that can ask that question is an on duty police man.
NOT a judge, not your employer, or anyone else.

That is so wrong.

§ 411.205. DISPLAYING LICENSE; PENALTY. (a) If a
license holder is carrying a handgun on or about the license
holder's person when a magistrate or a peace officer demands that
the license holder display identification, the license holder shall
display both the license holder's driver's license or
identification certificate issued by the department and the license
holder's handgun license. A person who fails or refuses to display
the license and identification as required by this subsection is
subject to suspension of the person's license as provided by
Section 411.187.
(b) A person commits an offense if the person fails or
refuses to display the license and identification as required by
Subsection (a) after previously having had the person's license
suspended for a violation of that subsection. An offense under this
subsection is a Class B misdemeanor.

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, § 10.01(a), eff. Sept. 1,
1997. Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 62, § 9.17(a), eff.
Sept. 1, 1999.

 

[Pat-inCO]

I like "Who ME!?" pause and then say "Now why in heaven's name would anyone ask a question like that."

 

[springmom]

Funny coincidence. After my post earlier in this thread, I went off to HEB for groceries. The young man who carried them out for me was not the sharpest tool in the shed. I opened my trunk and he started loading groceries. Then he stopped.

"There's a target back here." (It was unused, a leftover from a previous trip to Carter's Country.)

Silence. Then, "Yup."

Silence, as he tries to think what this means. "Well, I hope nobody was holding it...." (not noticing the unused part....)

STEELY silence, accompanied by steely mom look. "I target shoot."

"Oh." More thinking, but at least he's loading my groceries now. Then, in the middle of the Woodlands HEB parking lot, with a voice that probably could have been heard at the nearby mall, he brightens up and says "I don't shoot pistols much. Not much good. But give me a rifle and I'm REAL GOOD!!!" I'm thinking, Lord, how long before SWAT gets here. He continues "I'm so good I shot a squirrel once. When I was just trying to scare it. I'm so good I hit it anyway!!!!"

Thank God, the groceries were in the trunk. I waved goodbye and ducked into the car.

There's a lot of cluelessness going around these days.

Springmom

 

[bobbarker]

Wow...I sincerely hope I wasn't that stupid back when I was a bag boy... Kids these days....

 

[Schmidlin]

im sure he was just confused seeing a real target out side of the computer gaming world.....his reality where probably colliding as you stood there.

"so they are real........"

 

[Artiz]

When we go into places you are looking around. I said I like to know who is around me, and where they are. She said just like a cop.

Same thing for me, when i'm shopping I know where is everybody, anytime, I do that without noticing. But people kind of ask themself what I am doing, with a strange looking face when they see me looking around, employes too, lol.

 

[g.willikers]

Gun? In my fanny pack? No, it's for my fanny.

 

[MIL-DOT]

"No, I'm just happy to see you !! "

 

[Hot brass]

I did not bother me that he asked. I thought that it was telling that he stated "LEOs" come into the store wearing fannypacks and have told him that a gun was in the FP. I had on a t-shirt that was tucked inside of my britches. Usually the t-shirt is out and over the t-shirt. I was trying not to embarrass the wife.

 

[dalepres]

The sales guy was probably just a wannabe gun nut who wished he could afford a gun and had his concealed permit. He probably just wanted to talk about guns and concealed guns.

If he had a permit, he would probably have known never to ask the question. If he was a High Road member, he certainly would have known better.

 

[dalepres]

(If asked by law-enforcement during car-stop or any other situation, while my hands are motionless and in plain sight): "Officer, I have a legal carry permit, and I am carrying today. Tell me what to do next."

Ok, we just had this thread, and yes, if asked by a policeman be sure to tell him the truth but why add "Tell me what to do next"? I don't get it. Do you think he won't tell you what to do if he wants to? Do you think you should imply to him that there is something to do other than to tell you to have a nice day? If I were a cop, and if someone told me that when I simply asked if he had a weapon, I'd get very suspicious that something was wrong.

 

[tinygnat219]

Witty response: Why are you looking at my crotch?

 

[mike101]

"Just say NO".

 

[kentucky_Dave]

I still like the "No. It's a colostomy bag. It's still warm. Ya wanna feel it?"

Thanks a lot Bushmaster... now I have to clean coffee from my keyboard / monitor.

 

[woodybrighton]

obligatory brit laughing fanny pack bwhahahahahha

 

[pbearperry]

I wear a fanny pack during the summer.Putting a lot of stuff in my shorts with the drawstring thingy won't stay up with heavy stuff in the pockets.And it's an ordinary fanny pack that looke like a camera or whatever may be inside.

 

[Drgong]

my repose would of be eh??