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I was sitting in a drive through at mcdonalds last night and I was behind this van with a bunch of stickers. It had to bullet hole stickers and a sticker that said "you can have my gun...bullets first". He also had a sticker that said gun control and there was a paragraph under it but I wasn't able to read the small print. So I got to thinking about all the other stickers that I have seen like "keep honking, I'm reloading" and "driver only carries $20 worth of ammunition". Do you guys think that these stickers are really appropriate. Does it really help our pro 2A stanc to potray ourselves this way. What do you think?
 
It not only sends the wrong message, but it also targets you as most likely having a gun in the car, thereby making someone wanting to break into it looking for the gun
 
I think it conveys the message to the anti that there is an example of another gun crazy wack job that is looking for any excuse to pull out his 44 mag and start blasting away.

I subscribe to the ole adage, "Walk softly, but carry a big...well not stick:D
 
I think it conveys the message to the anti that there is an example of another gun crazy wack job that is looking for any excuse to pull out his 44 mag and start blasting away.

I subscribe to the ole adage, "Walk softly, but carry a big...well not stick


Actually, one guy that I know that has those stickers did actually carry a super blackhawk in .44. Now its the FN 5.7.
 
As long as you aren't making me read about your nerdy kid being an honor student at Sweet Unks Elementary School & Per-Teen Penitentiary, I really don't care what it says on your bumper sticker after I read it, and chuckle at either it or you.

Does it help? No, but I don't really thinks it hurts either. (the added risk for a break-in is a separate matter)
 
I'll +1 what other posters have said. I think it gives a bad impression of us.

I have an NRA sticker on my rear window, and I'm even thinking of removing that.
I've heard stories (no hard data) of thieves following home a car with an NRA sticker. Then all they have to do is wait for you to leave home again and they break in.
 
I'd be more worried about a cop seeing all the gun related stickers and pulling you over for "speeding" just to stir up some issues.
 
I got pulled over, because of those silly bullet hole stickers. Drove by a local cop, whos eyes about bugged out when we drove by him at a cross street. He jumped right on my ass, and followed me all the way through town before pulling me over.

We had to wait until his back up arrived before he'd get out. Both cops creep up on either side of the truck, hands on guns. Cop on my side says "whats up with the bullet holes in the truck?" :rolleyes:

I said you cant be serious, theyre friggin stickers. He gives me a dirty look, and then goes back and puts his finger on one of them. The next look was priceless. :D

He told me it might be funny where we were from, but it wasnt funny in his town. Thats 45 minutes out of my life I wont get back.

Good thing he ddnt ask us to get out. We both had handguns on, and there was an AK and a 12ga on the back seat under our winter clothes. :)

Needless to say, the stickers were gone when I got home.
 
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I got pulled over, because of those silly bullet hole stickers. Drove by a local cop, whos eyes about bugged out when we drove by him at a cross street. He jumped right on my ass, and followed me all the way through town before pulling me over.

We had to wait until his back up arrived before he'd get out. Both cops creep up on either side of the truck, hands on guns. Cop on my side says "whats up with the bullet holes in the truck?" :rolleyes:

I said you cant be serious, theyre friggin stickers. He gives me a dirty look, and then goes back and puts his finger on one of them. The next look was priceless. :D

He told me it might be funny where we were from, but it wasnt funny in his town. Thats 45 minutes out of my life I wont get back.

Good thing he ddnt ask us to get out. We both had handguns on, and there was an AK and a 12ga on the back seat under our winter clothes. :)

Needless to say, the stickers were gone when I got home.
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Like you're really going to get into a shooting with the cops over stickers :D

I personally don't think they help us. On the other hand, there are a lot of ultra-left wing hippies in Cal who plaster all of their propaganda on their cars, so who cares in the end?
 
First Amendment. Put whatever you want on your car; COEXIST, Protected by S&W, God hates..., My kid is an honor student, Image of the kid urinating on a Ford/Chevy, etc.

My choice to read it or not. My choice to decide what I find humorous or not. My choice to put anything on my vehicle or not.

I will say, that some of the items on people's vehicles make it easier for the popo to conduct surveillance on bad guys. Vanity tags are great. Paying extra money to the state and making your vehicle stand out for anyone who cares: Priceless. ;)
 
I think it conveys the message to the anti that there is an example of another gun crazy wack job that is looking for any excuse to pull out his 44 mag and start blasting away.
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Sorry, but that is already how they think of gun owners. The sticker doesn't change it.

I don't have any stickers on my car. That's me. It doesn't matter what it is. I even make the car dealers take off their little name stickers along the trunk when buying a new car. Had one dealer one time say they couldn't take the stickers off without damaging the paint. Yeah right.. Should have seen the look on his face when I walked. I'm not gettin money from these companies to advertise, so no stickers go on.
 
I really don't care what stickers are on their vehicles, I really care how they drive.
People decorate/accessorize their vehicles for all kinds of reasons.

I put this sticker on because of its historical background.
 

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It not only sends the wrong message, but it also targets you as most likely having a gun in the car, thereby making someone wanting to break into it looking for the gun
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With that line of thinking, people who's homes are alarmed and monitored and have signs indicating so, would be targeted for robbery more than homes WITHOUT alarms, monitoring - etc?

Not.

Sorry, but the NRA sticker on my car, just like the "alarm stickers" and signs on my home are a WARNING, not an advertisement.

Anyone that takes it as an "invitation" will be rudely awakened from their fantasy.

And yes, my state recognizes my car as part of the Castle Doctrine

p.s. The "Beware of Dog" sign does NOT mean you should try to steal the dog either - he'll take your lunch money and make you cry.
 
do i think it is appropriate? i think that it is an individules right to do what he wants to his own property. if he wants to paint the vehicle to look like animal feces, that is up to him. do i think they help our cause, or 2nd amendments rights? not really. but who are we to stomp on his rights? that is part of the problem in these states. to many people complaining about what somebody else is doing. if you stop and think about it, this is not a lot different that what the anti gun people are doing. complaining about something that does not directly impact their lives. how many anti-gun people have actually had a gun shoved in their face? not many. the ones that actually have, have every right in the world to be anti gun. most of them are just afraid. while you do not like the stickers on this persons ride. they do absoultly nothing to harm you. if a man wants to live in a yellow house, should he have to paint it pink because the yellow offends someone? we all need to be more leinient with other peoples choices. when it actually impacts your life, then you have a right to protest.
 
sometimes I think people will use any excuse on this forum to get in a jab at law enforcement.....
 
With that line of thinking, people who's homes are alarmed and monitored and have signs indicating so, would be targeted for robbery more than homes WITHOUT alarms, monitoring - etc?

Not.

Sorry, but the NRA sticker on my car, just like the "alarm stickers" and signs on my home are a WARNING, not an advertisement.

Anyone that takes it as an "invitation" will be rudely awakened from their fantasy.

And yes, my state recognizes my car as part of the Castle Doctrine

p.s. The "Beware of Dog" sign does NOT mean you should try to steal the dog either - he'll take your lunch money and make you cry.
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There's a difference - nobody wants to steal and alarm or dog, and both typically are there as a deterrent 24 hours per day. As we are (rightly) always so quick to point out: guns don't shoot themselves. Your gun is no longer a deterrent unless you are there to wield it, and it in and of itself has value to the criminal if taken.

If a criminal KNOWS you have a gun, you aren't the target - your gun(s) is. They'll wait until you're gone to make their move. A gun is security without the need to advertise it. My car doesn't display ANY indication that have an inclination whatsoever towards firearms interest. My home - to most it probably doesn't either, but realistically I'm in rural SC. I doubt there's a home on my entire street that has less than 5 in it.
 
I brought this up in a previous thread on legal strategies if ever involved in a SD shooting and it met a somewhat dismissive response.
To me I put it right up there with shooting teflon coated (so called cop killer bullets) and Punisher grips and having it used as evidence in an investigation or trial.
Having a dead mugger or carjacker laying below your bumper with KILL EM ALL LET GOD SORT IT OUT bumper sticker might play a pivotal role in the way you are perceived by LE and the DA.
Additionally I travel in and out of areas that strongly control weapons and any kind of sticker that eludes to weapons or affiliation to 2A groups IMO will probably bring on an extra effort by security.
The same can be said of the clothes we wear, I can't believe that a tee shirt with similar commentary to the bumper sticker would escape the lens of a CSI.
This is not to say I believe in any infringement of speach or expression only that words mean things and we are always judged by what we say and do.
 
I don't like the look of stickers on my tuck so I save stickers for my tool box.

I do enjoy reading some other peoples stickers though.
 
I don't associate such stickers with real gun owners. Do others?
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Oh they're real enough. The guy that pulled into my favorite LGS in front of me had a whole bunch of crap like that on his van's back windows.

I only remember because he was taking his colt in for service. He pulled it out of his pants from it's mexican carry position and cleared the chamber as the muzzle faced me. :scrutiny:

Very real, very licensed, very careless and very much out there somewhere. Coming soon, to a walmart near you... :uhoh:
 
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