Posted: 11/30/2007 8:02:09 PM EDT
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Where was the first place you went when you received you CCW? I just got mine on Thursday (took a whole 6 days  ) I went to McDonald's for lunch, man did that feel weird. Bri |
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i went to walmart with a px4 in a tucker leather IWB holster and bought some 9mm, then i went straight to ATP gun shop and bought a PF9 to pocket carry. i had been wearing around an empty holster for months. i didnt really notice a differnce. edit: i wore that holster for months and then once i get my license i have only carried IWB twice. pocket carrying my PF9 is just to easy. never leave home without it except at work, becuace it is agasint state law for me to carry at work (well, i guess i could infrom every single resident that i have a gun when im entering their apartment, but im pretty sure i would get fired) |
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Over 13 years ago when I lived in PA - they had a shall issue license for cheap - and no BS coursework to take. I don't remember the first time I carried - but it was a little weird at first and I do remember worrying about printing the gun. Shortly after I moved to Texas, they passed the shall issue CCW and I was one of the first to get it. Have had one ever since. Now, I know better not to worry about the gun printing. Just get a nice flat compact autoloader like a Kahr and don't worry. Everybody carries their phones on their belts like a holster now and a little bulge there is not really cause for alarm these days. In fact, just keep your phone on your belt ahead of the pistol. Just so you can take it on and off without showing your weapon. The only "worry" I would have is that some idget brain might try and pull my shirt up - but I figure it he does, he's going to get the heel of my hand on his nose. Contact of that nature is considered assault by the law - just like being hit or pushed. |
Went to the mall. Not as close quarters as say a grocery store so I figured less chance of getting bumped into. After a few laps I felt pretty good. The big test was in the house with the GF and not telling her until we were getting ready to leave the house. She never noticed till I said somthing. 
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No idea, probably stopped somewhere on the way home from the gunstore. I stuffed my Glock 21 into an IWB holster and stuck it in my suitpants as soon as I got it. Had the preban mags in the car with me already loadededit I carried for months without my girlfriend catching on. Finally we cutting across a dark park in Syracuse one night and I moved her around to my left side and she said "Why do you keep doing that?" so I told her I wanted my right arm free as I had my gun on that side. Now she's learned that I take the seat with the back to the wall. I met a buddy who is a cop for dinner one night and grabbed the wall seat and his wife said "Gee XXXX always wants that seat so his back's to the wall" and the gf/ laughed but didn't say anything. Unlike XXXX I had a gun so I figured I'd keep the good seat
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I went to a movie theater... Walmart was off-limits then, as NM only recently OK'd carrying in OPC (off-premises consumption) areas (i.e. stores where they sell liquor). The next day I went to church. My instructor asked why I wasn't carrying, I told him I was a bit nervous, he told me to go get it and don't tell anyone about it (there were a couple of people who objected to weapons in church. Odd, because they were both very pro-gun.) I got my pistol, then got my robes on (serving at the altar). I've carried it there ever since. |
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late 1982, living in Buffalo, New York. carried a Colt .380 to work. walked up to the security office, where we had to hand over any handguns for safe keeping. it was very weird. but the security guys got to know me and then it wasnt a big deal. i should be carrying far more often than i do.... |
| Well since VT doesn't have permits i just randomly decided to carry my G17 into the mall (mexican carry with no round in the chamber) just to see how it felt... then i decided i wasn't gonna carry again until i could afford a good holster and maybe a smaller handgun. |
haha this was one of the first places I went too. I was carrying in a OWB FOBUS and was concerend about printing too. I've got a Ctac 2 oclock and no worries at all now!!. to the OP: Lucky dog. Took ten of the twelve weeks allowable by law for me to get mine. :( |
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Girlfriends house for a party and oddly enough johnny law got behind me on the highway and followed me 9/10th of the entire way but did not pull me over, im thinking oh crap I have a firearm just got my permit wait what were the words my instructor told me if I found myself in this situation, "officer I have a permit to carry a firearm what would you like me to do?" im glad it didn't come to that I love dogs |
I wore my to one of the local mexican restaurants... I was 18, I had (still actually have it) one of those uncle mike's shoulder rigs.. with my Glock 17 9mm and had a sweatshirt over it.. I though I was king shit... Now that I'm a lot older I realize it's not about the "cool factor" rather than being able to protect myself or others that may be in danger. |
Funny how vermont doesnt require a CCW permit but it is a liberal state--amazingly children in VT still seem to be pretty safe? I wish the rest of this country had the same law. I have to wait 3 years before I can carry. |
yea i'm always amazed at how infected VT is with Liberals. but yet VT has the most lax gun laws in the U.S. i love VT but hate the majority of the population. i actually don't know many other people that carry here, i don't regularly because i'm waiting to get a holster that i can conceal well. that and being only 19 i'm sure that if i didn't have a good concealable holster i would get the cops called on me 20 times a day "OMG THIS KID HAS A GUN!!! I THINK HES A GANGSTER!" because pretty much everyone i come across is a die hard idiot. only people i know (or assume) carry are the guys who run Powderhorn, my local fun shop. VT is a pretty safe state so i don't worry too much about not carrying. but i always have a knife on me. |
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Just wait, soon you'll feel naked when you CANT carry. I went to walmart, bought ammo and beer, and then went to the MacDonalds inside and ate before leaving. I was nervous as hell, but it was so much fun  Edit: The gun was a USP45 fullsize in a IWB holster and two spare mags in a OWB carrier. |
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I was just glad I was FINALLY legal! I ain't saying no more! I got used to concealed carry as a LEO in Ky. I hated not being able to do it all the time (this was many years before Ky passed its' CCW law) after I quit the dept. Then I moved to Chicago for four hellish years (can you imagine? No one but my wife knew I had a veritable arsenal of guns banned by Cook County in my closet!) After a while common sense prevailed and I moved to Phoenix, got my CCW and I couldn't be happier. Even my wife, the original GFW if there ever was one, seems accustomed to it by now! |
| Hi...Newbie here, but the first place for me was to pick my grandma up at the barber shop of all places, and along with most of you, I too was nervous as hell, I typically don't wear very "big" shirts but this shirt I was wearing today was kind of big for my tastes and I was constantly pulling my shirt down to make sure I wasn't printing. |
| good topic..........first place was The Outback with the wife, I had a CW-9 in a fobus paddle holster. Lately its been a 1911, but starting this week its been my new G-19c. I do remember touching my holster about a million times that first carry. now i dont leave home without one. |
VT is great, its awful nice to get up each morning and put my glock on without having to ask anyones permission. and the liberal BS isn't that so bad really. -patry |
OMG another Vermonter on ARFCOM... lol other then the NE boards i've hardly ever seen another VT person. where abouts do you live? i'm in Richmond, so i know how bad the libs are in Chittenden county... pisses me off... |
that IS pretty sweet, but no suppressors in VT so i'm not about to move there any time soon... first place i carried was in my car, on the way home from picking up my permit (when i still live in CT). |
My CCL came in Oct 5, 2007. I deployed to Guam (USAF) Oct 7, 2007. I'm still in Guam.  I won't get back until Mid Feb of 08. I didn't get to carry; too busy spending time with the wife. I plan on going to Wally World though when I get back. I'll be carrying my XD9SC in a CTAC and a 1911 in a Galco Concealable holster (Not at the same time either!). Damn, I miss home.
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I'm in B-town, right in the epicenter  theres a few vermonters around here, I prowl around GD alot of the time. anyways whereabouts do you richmondians shoot at? -patry |
Hate is a strong word. And you sound freakin ignorant. People aren't always cookie cutter copies of what you think of as conservative or progressive. Just because I don't vote "conservative" doesn't mean that I'm not there with you on some of your most passionate issues...and just because I don't vote "progressive" doesn't mean that I disagree with all of the big issues you stand for. I'm not a sheep. And most people aren't deep down. We have been taught to be...oh yes, every fucking day we are taught to be sheep. It's up to every citizen to really stand for what they believe and not just what a political party tells them to. I passionately believe in gun rights and other things the republican party stands for, but I cannot, in good conscious, vote republican again in the near future for many reasons. And I know many that feel the same way. This doesn't have to make me your enemy. |