Do people know that you own?

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Everyone knows i own guns. Heck if anything i bring up the conversation. Sometimes you can find new shooting partners by just bringing it up. Not afraid to say im american i own guns. If you scared of guns then dont buy any. Save them for me.

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everybody i know knows

everyone around me knows i have guns. and ive been broken into three different times. wierd thing, none of the guns at the time were locked up and none were stolen... now there locked into a gunsafe, and im not afraid they will get stolen.
 
What XD Fan said reminded me of my childhood: I lived in a small rural community where almost every household held at least one .22 LR rifle and one 12 ga. shotgun.
That was 50 years ago.
Nowadays, I don't readilly tell people I own guns . I told some friends & close acquaintences after knowing them for a while (in a few instances a few years) & all acted extremely surprised , if not shocked.
"You, of all people own guns ?" "But you're no fascist !" "So you're in fact a very violent man" are some of their reactions...
Even some of those who know me better "never expected ME to own guns":confused::

I never understood the rationale of such comments

Others (neighbours e.a.) I never tell : they already consider me as being weird enough.
 
I don't advertise. There is no sign in my front yard that says "Protected by Smith & Wesson".

I assume that just about every male has a gun in their home if they are over 21. It is pretty normal.
 
Not everyone knows I own a gun. When most of my women friends find out have a one they have a :what: look on their face. It has been really fun for me to go all into talking about guns during a girl's night out. I do it almost everyone we have not because I mention it but because one of my friend's say "did you know that she shoots?" Then a huge discussion breaks out about guns. Never really in a negative light always positive. My goal is to get them comfortable with the idea. I have plenty who want to go out shooting with me. I have taken a few and they have loved it.
 
Everyone knows I shoot. I don't even try to conceal it. For one, I like talking about things I like, and sharing it with others. Second, I consider it the duty of every shooter to help expose new people to the sport. We talk all the time around here about how ignorance just empowers the stereotype that guns are bad/evil/dangerous, etc. If we then turn around and say "I'm not going to tell anyone I have guns, its none of their damn business," how do we expect to battle the ignorance?
 
My dad owned a business for over 30 years on the edge of a bad neighborhood. During that 30 years, every business in the general area was broken into at least once EXCEPT his. Possibly because he went to work every day in overalls with an NRA cap on his head, and more or less openly packing some sort of pistol (he had a CCW).

People knew he owned guns, and he was well respected in the bad neighborhood too. No one was the least bit discourteous - much less gangsta. One time a kid that lived close by got it into his head that he was a Crip, and he painted some obscene graffiti on a building across the street. A local cop was in Dad's shop one day, and my Mom complained about it. About a week later the kid wasn't a Crip anymore, and he came and apologized to my Mom and painted over the graffiti too.

I'm a little more low key, but people do know. It's not that unusual in the south.
 
I think people have a general idea what I do for hobbies. You can hear the Harley when I fire it up. They know I target shoot. They know my wife and I went prairie dog shooting for a period.

But not even my parents knew details when they were alive. Flatly, it's nobody's business. What purpose does it serve anyone to know I have 17 firearms and six pairs of athletic socks?

My wife and I are cordial with our neighbors, we try to be active in our church--which thrives on gossip.

To give the OP a direct answer, I treat the issue of firearms the way I treat all other facets of life. It's on a "need to know basis," and most people don't need to know anything.
 
I am an instructor, so it kinda goes withoug saying but, I might as well have a tattoo on my head that says "GUN NUT" I talk to strangers and friends frequently about guns. I never miss an opportunity to invite a complete stranger to the range. At work I am a little more closed lipped, but most people in the building know who I am and what I do for fun.


...I also have a monitored alarm system and 3 mean sounding dogs.
 
I find it perfectly normal to own firearms. That goes for both men and women. Men tend to have more as a generalization. Always best to assume someone is armed and they have firearms in their home.

All that said, most people that are invited into my home have no idea that there are any firearms and I want to keep it that way. Also there is a big difference if someone knows you own "a" gun versus own a couple hundred. Loose lips sink ships.
 
yes. Everybody here on THR knows that I own.

Other than that, it's spotty. Some know that I own, many more don't. Almost nobody not here on THR knows what I own though or how many I own.
 
When people eat something I say that I shot, I figure they must know I have a gun or two. Then there's that safe in the living room...:)

Ironically, my upright freezer is filled with meat that comes from a gun I don't own, but borrowed.
 
Do you let everyone know how much you earn, what investments you have, how much cash you keep on you? Probably not, except for those you really trust.

Let everyone else guess.
 
Yup, friends family and co workers know. I have targets up at my desk and pictures of me shooting and skinning a deer all of that is at my desk, I make it loud and proud. I have been told I am a scary person by passer's by. I have changed a bunch of peoples minds here at work and found out that there are a lot more gun owners in the vicinity that I thought and I have hopefully gotten them out of their shells a little more, people don't need to know what you have or how many just that you have them and why you have them. then you educate them on why they should have them. Most of my department goes with me out to the desert to go shoot ( we had 22 people last time). Most of these people were gun owners a couple were not and I never turned down anyone who wants to learn to shoot or just go shoot.
 
Privacy is important and I respect the choice of anyone who doesn't want to let slip any more personal information than absolutely necessary.

For me though, it's an awful lot of hassle to keep worthless secrets. I enjoy my hobbies and I'm proud of them, I really wouldn't miss out on the joy of sharing them with like minded people.

If the knowledge that I own guns isn't likely to hurt anyone (and I really don''t think it is), why should I bother keeping it to myself?
 
Talking about guns is the only way to get other people interrested and educated about guns.

I'm not afraid to talk about my freedom of speech (a right), so why would anyone be about bearing arms? It should be just as natural, but sadly it's often not, and sometimes taboo.
 
Does having a gun in the home make you more or less likely to be robbed?
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Criminals are opportunist, and the chance of catching lead poisoning is not conductive to a good opportunity. Statistics have shown that communities with armed citizens have lower crime rate in all catagories. I think that is why crime is lower in areas where carry permits are easy to obtain and where hunting and other shooting sports are looked at favorably. The knowledge of firearms and marksmanship in these places is higher than average.
Pesonaly, I don't hide the fact that I have guns, go the range at least once a week, and am a NRA member; but I also don't run around bragging to all around about what I have. Several of my friends know what I have but that would be the extent of it.
 
Out side of my wife and kids, I usually do not tell others about what I have. But I do OC from time to time, so they do know I carry a pistol.
 
Family knows, and a couple guys at work know. Although, I'm sure anyone who see's me has a pretty good idea I own a gun or two.the NRA baseball cap I always where probly give them that impression.;)

I dont go around tellng people I own guns, nor do I really do anything to specifically hide it either. That said, only the wife knows just how many I own, at least roughly, even I would have to count to give an exact number, so...
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