Kynoch
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Yep. Maybe Filson and a few other brands...
Do you wear firearms-related apparel?
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JohnM
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You better be careful with your buying, Even Filson has begun listing some items as "imported".
morcey2
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I wear lots of hunting-style camouflage, (button up shirts usually) but not a lot of firearms-specific stuff. I have a few cheap winchester/remington/mossberg/etc... hats from Wal Mart that I wear, but that's about it.
That said, almost everyone I know knows that I have guns. All of my neighbors know it, but they all own them too.
I have had to change my style of dress slightly since I started carrying. I used to wear t-shirts almost exclusively, but I print in those very badly. (IWB CZ-82 @ 3:00). I switched to button up shirts with lots of patterns on them (thus the camo. Or fish. Or random lines) and don't have an issue at all. No one has commented on it, which has surprised me. Maybe they just think that the redneck decided to dress more gooder.
Matt
That said, almost everyone I know knows that I have guns. All of my neighbors know it, but they all own them too.
I have had to change my style of dress slightly since I started carrying. I used to wear t-shirts almost exclusively, but I print in those very badly. (IWB CZ-82 @ 3:00). I switched to button up shirts with lots of patterns on them (thus the camo. Or fish. Or random lines) and don't have an issue at all. No one has commented on it, which has surprised me. Maybe they just think that the redneck decided to dress more gooder.
Matt
mljdeckard
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Haters gonna hate. Don't care.
So you think anyone who approaches this differently than you is a coward, or....other things?
So you think anyone who approaches this differently than you is a coward, or....other things?
Hardtarget
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The ONLY gun related item was an NRA belt buckle from the early seventies. I wore it out. The kids at church, ( a Wednesday night class I taught), asked me if I EVER wore a different buckle....they were tired of looking at it!
I'm going to try a fix of the worn part so I can start wearing it again. They don't offer that buckle any more.
I don't wear hats, shirts, coats or any kind of gun related jewelry. Just not me.
Mark
I'm going to try a fix of the worn part so I can start wearing it again. They don't offer that buckle any more.
I don't wear hats, shirts, coats or any kind of gun related jewelry. Just not me.
Mark
Subtlety is key for me...
I keep it very discreet and only hats that are clearly only understood by learned gun folks. No GLOCK, RUGER, SMITH & WESSON or HI POINT blazoned across my chest or hat. If I wear other gun type shirts, they're usually not "loud" but a simple logo and usually only at the range or at matches. No NRA sticker on the car or truck of home windows either.
I remember a good friend coming over to hide from her abusive boyfriend. It surprised me she chose poorly. He came over after seeing her car parked in the back and honked, banged on the door and yelled his fight was not with me. What I remember most was the big NRA sticker on his truck window and how that reflected badly on the institution. I was not yet a member in my early 20's and had school, women and work on my mind. Since then though I have been a member for the last 22 years, I still won't advertise, not because of shame but to avoid crime altogether or should I make that rare mistake on the road that could reflect badly on the NRA.
In '94 I shot a combat match in Boulder, Co and watched a rotund fella in tight black BDUs tucked into his swat boots, thumb break holster, HK pistol, HK 'no compromise' LS Tshirt with a swat team in action on the back,
Heckler and 'Koke' on both his arms and a HK 'no compromise' cap. Even before I had gotten more involved in pistol competition, I thought I didn't want to look like this guy, no way.
I remember attending a conference once in Jackson Hole and at a small round table discussion after getting back from fishing, I had an old LS T shirt with a single discreet HK logo. When someone asked I lied and said it was 'Harmon Kardon' as in stereo. He got the point though.
I keep it very discreet and only hats that are clearly only understood by learned gun folks. No GLOCK, RUGER, SMITH & WESSON or HI POINT blazoned across my chest or hat. If I wear other gun type shirts, they're usually not "loud" but a simple logo and usually only at the range or at matches. No NRA sticker on the car or truck of home windows either.
I remember a good friend coming over to hide from her abusive boyfriend. It surprised me she chose poorly. He came over after seeing her car parked in the back and honked, banged on the door and yelled his fight was not with me. What I remember most was the big NRA sticker on his truck window and how that reflected badly on the institution. I was not yet a member in my early 20's and had school, women and work on my mind. Since then though I have been a member for the last 22 years, I still won't advertise, not because of shame but to avoid crime altogether or should I make that rare mistake on the road that could reflect badly on the NRA.
In '94 I shot a combat match in Boulder, Co and watched a rotund fella in tight black BDUs tucked into his swat boots, thumb break holster, HK pistol, HK 'no compromise' LS Tshirt with a swat team in action on the back,
Heckler and 'Koke' on both his arms and a HK 'no compromise' cap. Even before I had gotten more involved in pistol competition, I thought I didn't want to look like this guy, no way.
I remember attending a conference once in Jackson Hole and at a small round table discussion after getting back from fishing, I had an old LS T shirt with a single discreet HK logo. When someone asked I lied and said it was 'Harmon Kardon' as in stereo. He got the point though.
mljdeckard
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You know what I think is pathological? Someone who gives a rat butt what other people wear and works so hard to tell them why they are wrong.
Inebriated
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Talking in circles here, aren't we?
Don't like it? Don't do it.
Like it? Do it.
Simple as that.
Don't like it? Don't do it.
Like it? Do it.
Simple as that.
stevelyn
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Exactly. Same here. I'm not hiding from anyone and I really don't care if someone's feelers get hurt by what I wear.
Besides, I don't go places where I wouldn't be welcome in Carhartts and a t-shirt anyway. And yes some of them have various logos on them.
Exactly. Same here. I'm not hiding from anyone and I really don't care if someone's feelers get hurt by what I wear.
Besides, I don't go places where I wouldn't be welcome in Carhartts and a t-shirt anyway. And yes some of them have various logos on them.
Erik M
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I can't believe the amount of fear in this thread. The only firearm related clothing I own is a Horandy shirt though, and a Magpul sticker on my 4x4.
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I don't really own any, save for a Smith and Wesson "my trusted and faithful companion" shirt that was a gift. And that I don't really wear on the town...
I do have an NRA decal on my car.
I fully understand OPSEC, but...I've moved well past violating this level of it...
...with semi-regular political-themed letters in the local paper. Only a few are specifically on guns, and for that matter I don't think I've ever said "I own ___" but I try to make my support for the 2A very clear. Why? In a counry where anti-gun propaganda is everywhere, Someone has to stand up say these things! Don't mean I'm the best there is at it, Don't mean that every single soul who owns a gun should do it. But things don't tend get done if you sit around waiting for someone else to do it for you.
That said, having your name (with no face) attached to pro-2A letters isn't the same as walking down the street with firearms apparel. Though there are differing "levels" of it to choose from. I'd consider something like a "Team Glock" shirt. A "Kill Them All and let God Sort 'Em Out," not so much....!
I do have an NRA decal on my car.
I fully understand OPSEC, but...I've moved well past violating this level of it...
...with semi-regular political-themed letters in the local paper. Only a few are specifically on guns, and for that matter I don't think I've ever said "I own ___" but I try to make my support for the 2A very clear. Why? In a counry where anti-gun propaganda is everywhere, Someone has to stand up say these things! Don't mean I'm the best there is at it, Don't mean that every single soul who owns a gun should do it. But things don't tend get done if you sit around waiting for someone else to do it for you.
That said, having your name (with no face) attached to pro-2A letters isn't the same as walking down the street with firearms apparel. Though there are differing "levels" of it to choose from. I'd consider something like a "Team Glock" shirt. A "Kill Them All and let God Sort 'Em Out," not so much....!
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Kynoch
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What makes you think it's a matter of "fear?" It's more a matter of "good taste" than anything.
mljdeckard
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Taste is nothing more than individual preferences. Yours matter to......you.
JohnM
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Finally, the dress code nazi shows his face.
Good taste
I am curious to know where the respondents if this thread live. I grew up and currently live in MS/Tenn area. It would never cross my mind to not wear something with a gun logo because of what other might think. Most people around here have guns and would not look twice at a ruger hat
Kynoch
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Not really. There is good taste and bad taste.
It would be universally bad taste (yet I'm sure some still do it) to wear a tank top and Speedo swimming briefs to church.
Kynoch
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I'm not a "dress code nazi." Your use of "nazi" in this context is downright nasty.
Still it does say something negative when someone turns their clothes into billboards hoping to get some attention.
I love a atagonist!! Stir the pot!!
I don't..for I don't feel like dealing with the social implications or attitudes. Why fire someone up..especially when i don't need to. NRA stickers, Glock, Sig stickers are cool for the garage...not for the wally wagon! There is no reason to bring attention to a highly controversial subject with ANTI'S.
Does it make you feel good to turn your own personal choices into hard and fast rules, then use them to insult other people who choose differently?
mountainman95
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I voted no but it's mostly because I don't have any other than an NRA and our gun club cap. About the only time I wear a cap is to the gun club/range. No stickers on my vehicles but then I don't have any stickers on them that aren't required by the state or came from the factory. I like my vehicles clean
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