When your wife says "No!"

[peacefuljeffrey]

Glad to read your post, Rachel.

It's a little troubling in the beginning, because it makes me realize that some people (women?) can be quite irrational about guns at the start, and that only by DISREGARDING YOUR EMPHATIC STANCE was your husband even able to bring you around to seeing what you now recognize as "reason"!

My brother, on the other hand, was the first gun owner in my family, and passed that on to me. He has moved away to Nantucket because that's where his wife was from before they married, and he left all his hardware behind with me. Now, not that I mind having some extra guns around, but it pains me greatly that my brother, who used to carry here in FL, now has acceded to the state of MA telling him he may not have a gun (at least, not without applying for a license first and hoping to get approved). For cryin' out loud, he had his carry permit before I did! And now he's okay with being a disarmed sheeple! :banghead:

Some people start where you are now and go forward to where you were then. It's sad. Granted, my brother stands very little chance of violent confrontation there on Nantucket, but the principle is what matters to me in this case. I don't know why he didn't insist that his wife move to Florida where HE lives... (Probably the schools their kids'd grow up in down here -- they SUCK!)


-Jeffrey

 

[Selfdfenz]

Great first post!
Welcome to THR.

The path we follow into the shooting sports will always sway us. Self defense in only one aspect of being a student of the gun. I hope you and your husband have found a recreational aspect in firearms you will be able to enjoy together forever. No one can ever learn all there is to be learned about the shooting sports in one lifetime. Boredom is not an option.

S-

 

[Missourigunner]

When your wife says No!

Welcome to THR.

 

[runswithscissors]

Welcome

Glad to hear your shooting experience was a good one. Welcome. Hang around and let some of these old timers hear more stories about cute young women shooting guns. Works like a charm for those old shooters.

 

[sturmruger]

Cracked butt I think you and I have the same wife. She sounds a lot like Rachel used to and now is just indifferent to my collection of firearms.


Rachel when you started this I was thinking you were going to talk about forbidding your husband from buying a new gun. Turns out you just didn't want to go to the range. What kind of Carbine did your husband buy?

My lovely wife and I have been married now been for 5 years. I keep working on her slowly to see if I can convince her to show more of an interest in my guns, but honestly sometimes it is nice if we both have our own things to do. You know what they say "absence makes the heart grow fonder".

Thanks for the great post and welcome to the THR. Does your husband hang out on here as well??

 

[mountaindrew]

Welcome! My wife esounds alot like you in the earlier stage. I wish I knew what to do to help her lose her fear. I like to think I am a sensitive guy and I have done my best to talk to her about safety and tell her that the gun is not the danger in itself. I have even taken her shooting several times with varied results, makeing every effort to make if pleasent ant non threatening, but it always comes back to the same "NO!" eventually. (usaully after she sees Oprah. For those that don't watch, Oprah's mainstay is showing victems and commiters of domestic violence, men who shot theier families etc...)

I wonder If you could talk to my wife. I have been wishing she had a woman to talk to about such matters that didn't share the same fears.

 

[Holly76201]

Rachel and sm

sm - thanks for the good thoughts. I have another project in the works (a book) that will take about 2 - 2.5 years to finish, then I can start looking at gun products. The 1st product I want to design is a "bralster" that you can clip to an underwire underneath your arm/armpit where one of the wires is. Actually, I can do it w/o a holster, I just worry about body oil/sweat affecting the gun metal, plus it's not very comfortable next to the skin. However, I can drop a 9mm and anything smaller in my cleavage for concealment. Yet another advantage to being busomly blessed. Anyway, I'll let you pass those thoughts along to your wife.

Rachel, I guess everybody's so dang glad to have another woman on the board we forgot to tell you the newbie buys the ammo! Also be sure to check out Thehighroad.org and Thefiringline.com Great boards for tons of info and discussion.

Again welcome, and have fun and take another woman with you every range trip.

 

[Waitone]

So how long was it before the grin left your face?

Welcome to THR. Shoot safely and often.

 

[Sneaky]

Awesome, Rachel!

A heartfelt welcome to THR!!!!