Do You Go Places You Can't Carry?

Do You Go Places You Can't Carry?

  • Yes

    Votes: 107 81.1%

  • No

    Votes: 25 18.9%
  • Total voters
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I carry in many places. My carry gun is of no use if I am not carrying it. The prohibition signs that I ignore are business and medical buildings. Hell, the last time I saw my doctor, he unholstered his CCW to show me.
However, concealed means concealed. My family and neighbors are unaware that I carry. My wife knows and is part of our emergency plan. If for some reason I am found out, the institutions, gas stations or shopping malls have the option of complaining, the police might charge me with trespassing. I understand that. I rationalize my carrying with "I have a certain set of skills" and all that.:cool: Buildings and places that carry some enforcement teeth; Federal buildings, courthouses, police stations, no, I respect those boundaries, and leave it in the car.
 
tws3b2 said:
I'm not so scared of life that I can't go where I can't carry a gun.
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Scared may not be the correct term; when you do carry is it out of fear? Probably not.

I carry everywhere I can and avoid where I can't. <---That statement alone will usually not generate any negative response.
Elaborate it ^ : What that means is: I'm not going to vacation in other countries. OMG!!! Now come the replies of how I live in fear, paranoid.
Fear is not the correct term, neither is paranoid. I'll disarm if I have to, but it is not my preference; I am not scared of going disarmed, just don't like it.

I will not get in the ocean, sharks are in the ocean and may rip off a hunk of my flesh, or worse. That is fear. I am scared of sharks.

Anti-gunners would incorrectly say people carry out of fear, try to make carry sound like a negative when it is actually proactive.
Other countries where not only is carrying a gun illegal, they don't want people to be able to defend themselves at all so carrying a knife is called a coward.
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To answer the OP’s question, I have to say no.

If you rule out work, and government buildings then I pretty much don’t go anywhere I can’t carry. But I’m not that guy that has a long list of places I go, I’m to old for bars and night clubs, i haven’t been to a concert in my life, haven’t been to a ball game since my kids quit playing several years back. The 2 friends I do go visit fully expect me to show up armed, and I dare not disappoint!

I can only think of 2 places I can’t carry, work and the county courthouse. I did go to a monster truck show a little over a decade ago that I had to disarm for. And before anyone asks, I don’t go to the post office, wife does all that.

I live in the middle of a big (for Ala) cow pasture and I just assume stay here as much as possible.
 
Kleanbore said:
Postal and other Fsderal agents work under the same rules and report though national chains of commands. Their is no reason to expect regional variation.
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I'm telling you what happens at the post offices in this area. I'm not "expecting" anything or conveying my opinion. It's a fact that open carry is something that is regularly seen at the post offices that I frequent. I didn't say it was legal and I didn't say anyone should be doing it or that I do it. Again, this isn't my opinion, it's my observation of reality.
 
bearcreek said:
I'm telling you what happens at the post offices in this area. I'm not "expecting" anything or conveying my opinion. It's a fact that open carry is something that is regularly seen at the post offices that I frequent. I didn't say it was legal and I didn't say anyone should be doing it or that I do it. Again, this isn't my opinion, it's my observation of reality.
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Photos? Frequency?
 
CDW4ME said:
Fear is not the correct term, neither is paranoid. I'll disarm if I have to, but it is not my preference; I am not scared of going disarmed, just don't like it.
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If you ever have to pull your gun out because, for example, three criminals are about to steal your truck and rob you of all your possessions and probably kill you and your wife and hide your bodies somewhere deep in the New Mexico desert, you'll start looking at concealed carry a little differently and you'll LOL at the people that tell you you're only carrying because you're afraid. And then you'll continue carrying everywhere you go and avoiding places where you can't.
 
It has zero bearing on my life if I can carry or not. There are a lot of people who can’t carry (everyone under 21, for example) and they don’t just stay locked in their homes. I’m prepared, not paranoid.
 
The only places I've entered that used any type of detection device also prohibit knives and chemical sprays. I'm not sure if the keychain sprays will be detected, but you typically have to place your keys and phone in a tray as you pass through. If the alert sounds, you get wanded by security.

The ways that a person can still be armed without a gun become very limited in those places. I'm in no way opposed to entering those places IF everyone who enters must subject themselves to the same screening.

Perhaps the oddest "screening" I've encountered was at an indoor aquarium. They saw my pocket knife clipped on, asked to measure blade length. Over 3" is not allowed so it must be returned to my vehicle or checked at the security desk. Absolutely no signage about firearms and no screening for concealed weapons. If it had been inside my pocket they wouldn't have known.
 
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Went in for a sonogram yesterday and the liquor store and post office today, all no carry posted. I don't even give it a 2nd thought. I feel like I'm more likely to get killed or hurt in a car accident than any other way, but maybe that's just me and DFW traffic.
 
Howland937 said:
I'm in no way opposed to entering those places as everyone who enters must subject themselves to the same screening
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I was exiting a court house one day and I watched a man walk right in through the exit door as someone else was walking out. He completely bypassed the metal detectors and nobody else noticed, including the uniformed deputies at the metal detector station. It was impressive. I didn't say anything to anyone. Maybe I should have.
 
Night Rider said:
It doesn't matter. All you have to do is find the one guy who will enforce it.
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I never said it did matter. I said that it happens. That is all. That doesn't mean I'm saying that it's a good idea, that it's legal, that I do it or that I'm recommending to anyone here or anywhere else to do it. I'm simply stating that it happens.
 
bearcreek said:
Why are you so focused on this?
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I am sure that on some occasion, someone has entered a post office in Idaho and, by chance, gotten by with it. I also know that if a postal inspector or other Federal Agent should become aware that that practice, or the breaking of some other important Postal Service regulations, has been knowingly permitted by the staff, there would be an investigation followed by serious consequences involving discipline and possible termination. That's the way the Government works.

Let's hope that your post does not result in an investigation.
 
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