If you own a gun, when do you have it on you?
 

Yeah... Im still trying to get my head round the guy who had a metal on him while fixing his car in his own front garden. But I dont live in a country where people can go around tooled up, so maybe I am just not understanding the culture.

So if you own a piece, when do you carry it?

well, i have them for home defense, i carry on the property in summer because of snake risk, i hunt and i target shoot quite often.

i just voted home defense.

I don't own it, but there is a shotgun in my house. It's not really for home defense, it's for sport. Where I live, there isn't anything to defend against except raccoons. Having the shotgun in my house does not bother me. It's kept in an upstairs closet.

Similarly, my folks own two rifles, but one is a remnant of when we lived on a farm (a gun is a necessity on a farm), and the other is an antique rifle from the Civil War. Dad owns some ammo, but I don't think he's shot a rifle in 20-odd years, and he's not likely to start any time soon.

certainly a farmer does need a gun - just as much as a police or a soldier.

Home defense.

However, if I had a CCW, I'd always carry. I'm just to lazy to get one.

I have a concealed carry permit that I rarely exercise through maintaining a firearm on my person. I just keep it in the vehicle when I go out.

Firearms can best be thought of as a health / life insurance policy that you pay for once. You hope to never need it, but if you do need it... it's good to have.

I'm built like robocop. There's a mechanical holster surgically grafted in to my thigh. Thus, my weapon never leaves me. Ever.

You're so tac your femur has a 1913 rail built into it.

I have a shotgun and a rifle for hunting in the gun cabinet. I also have a pistol I use for target shooting, as it was a gift from my father for my 12th birthday. I rarely pull it out except to clean it twice a year, since I don't belong to a range here.

Most of the time when I don't have to go on post.

i am permitted to carry concealed in all 50 states...

however i rarely do, the biggest deciding factor is i usually wear running pants....

the place i go where i most often carry is the mall cuz i usually have jeans on and when i go back to school i will carry there...

It varies.

My guns are mostly for home defense, but I do occasionally go to the range for target practice.

I sometimes carry a pistol in my vehicle for protection. I don't have a concealed weapons permit (CWP), but Texas law allows us to carry loaded weapons in our vehicles as long as they're not on our actual body.

On very rare occasions I'll carry a pistol on my person, which is illegal without a CWP.

In my neighborhood having a gun handy when working on the car, in the yard, etc., is a good idea.

wow I want that permit haha.

I carry about 90% of the time in states/areas that I'm legal with my permit during winter. Working on getting that number up to 90% + in summer as well.

Whenever it will not be a liability. With the coyotes around in the summer, I've slung a shotgun over my shoulder to take the garbage out. When I get around to getting my permit, I still can't carry at work because our moron of a former governor signed a law prohibiting anything bigger than a Swiss Army Knife in a state workplace. The fact that I can't carry 95% of the time because I'll be at work during the day and don't have a car (can't stow a pistol in an under-seat safe) is most of why I've slacked off for so long and not gotten it.
So join the Army :p

I carry mine just about everywhere I go. About the only place I don't have it readily accessible is the one time I had to appear in Dallas county courthouse. I'm simply not leaving a gun in my vehicle in downtown dallas if I cannot carry it.

I don't even think active military can carry concealed as a citizen can they? I think the only people who can are federal officers and Firearm dealers. Correct me if I'm wrong

Am I wearing pants? I would have to actively work at having one not on me. The only time I know it is there is when I change pants and I move it from the old pants to the new pants.

Nah, dude... when you go Army Strong... they issue you an MP5K PDW shoulder rig in basic training... you can sleep with it and legally carry anywhere in the US. Airplanes, schools, bars, day care centers, Canada, strip clubs, whatever.

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Pfft. Regular military is more fulla crap about POWs (personally owned weapons) than the civvie world. They don't trust joes to have their own guns. No guns in the barracks, no concealed carry (no open carry), no guns on post without registration, etc. Who wants to go through the hassle of putting their Glock in the arms room? Granted, everybody I knew broke the bullshit rules. We used to play goofy MOUT games on the weekends. Get suited up and stack on some guy's door when he's banging his girlfriend and surprise 'em with a MRE bomb for a flash bang and a "GET DOWN-GET DOWN-GET DOWN!"

Most of our POWs were better than the issue crap, but that isn't surprising if you know anything about Fort Bragg's bastard children.

I must have heard federal LEO and remembered it as military by mistake.

If I'm beyond the front door, I'm carrying. I carry concealed about a third of the time, openly about a third of the time, and indifferently concealed the rest. I'm part of the reason my town enjoys a relatively low crime rate.

That's totally superhero talk.

(car thief caught) "Hey, stop! That guy... yeah, that guy down the street... yeah, he's got a gun. I'll call him over here if you don't stop."

There has been no correlation between concealed carry and reduced crime rates... only individual survival.

And that's a hard sell for most based on the statistics.

i say a guy open carrying today.

my only though was "what a douche."

i dont know why i thought this, ive been thinking about carrying for a few months.

Carrying openly can probably seen as making a political statement--things we'd rather not deal with/see if we dont' have to. For example, couples and kissing openly; they're making a statement, "look at us, we're so in love!"

It's cool that those individuals are packing/so in love, but they permeate the air with their grandstanding.

I saw a guy wearing an NRA hat at the Asian Grocery the other day. I thought, "what a dousche" too. But--in the back of my mind I was wondering if my NRA hat arrived in the mail yet....>_<

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Honestly, what someone does on their property is not my business, carry your gun, spank your children, practice BSDM, whatever.

And for the record, I sling my rifle on my back when I cook dinner. I just like having it near. Either I'm paranoid or I like having my toys near. Maybe both.

Granted, this bit would be totally douchetastic if I didn't know first hand that you could shoot halfway decent.

Lol yes. Unfortunately only half way decent. :(

Pfft, you saw me. I shoot like a terrorist in a Die Hard sequel.

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I don't carry indoors... because I don't often wear pants. I concealed carry a small .38 Spec revolver when I do carry, but I have a hard time with it because it's annoying to worry about how it prints on my skinny self.

i carry an old Smith and Wesson in the waist band once in a blue moon. i have that same problem.

maybe i should up the cheeseburgers.

I don't have anything I can CC, thus no CCW...maybe a hammerless .357 revolver or a baby glock with the tax return. I don't feel strongly enough about making such a polarizing statement to open carry the pistol I do have (very legal and pretty common in AZ, though it is).

Right now until I get a better storage arrangement, the pistol is loaded and in the nightstand for use if the first thing that wakes me up is the bedroom door opening (or worse), and the shotgun is in the closet for if I hear a nighttime ruckus downstairs. The wife is home alone all day, and knows where both are and how to use them...she became more interested recently since we had a string of home invasions in our neighborhood that was only stopped when someone fed them some 12-gauge.

now, if only you could get her to fire that baby topless.

I carry at work as part of my post description, away from work I usually don't carry, but if I'm out traipsing around in the woods, fields, or at the river I typically am carrying. If I'm driving anywhere out of town I'm carrying.

You're afraid of coyotes? Or just like to shoot them?

I have a target pistol, don't carry. Might use it for home defense but I'd be more likely to grab a machete.

You kids are so darn scary with all your guns.