well partly concealed

[vapochilled]

I don't carry day to day, I'm working on her, but as yet, no, I don't carry.
My only "carry" time is when I goto the range in <sp>shimersville
So, sig in serpa, I head off for the evening, enjoy my hour of me time,lol and head out to the car.
Message, "grab something sweet on the way home".
So I pulled into the Weis car park and head in.
Grab "something sweet" and head to the cashier.
Forgot that I still had the sig on my hip, never even gave it a thought, the poor girl on the checkout looked at me like I was an alien, and for the life of me I could not figure out why, until she points and says...."you a cop"?
I'd opened my jacket to get my wallet and was now proudly showing my 226 on my hip,lol
I'm not sure who was more shocked,lol
I got into the car and burst out laughing, what a way to lose the cherry

[JonEMTP]

I don't carry day to day, I'm working on her, but as yet, no, I don't carry.
My only "carry" time is when I goto the range in <sp>shimersville
So, sig in serpa, I head off for the evening, enjoy my hour of me time,lol and head out to the car.
Message, "grab something sweet on the way home".
So I pulled into the Weis car park and head in.
Grab "something sweet" and head to the cashier.
Forgot that I still had the sig on my hip, never even gave it a thought, the poor girl on the checkout looked at me like I was an alien, and for the life of me I could not figure out why, until she points and says...."you a cop"?
I'd opened my jacket to get my wallet and was now proudly showing my 226 on my hip,lol
I'm not sure who was more shocked,lol
I got into the car and burst out laughing, what a way to lose the cherry

Alright... Just to clarify... you have an LCTF, but your significant other discourages you from carrying on a regular basis?

[paulpa21]

Get a nice concealment holster and just don't tell her. Then one day if you save her life she will be happy you did so!

[SAB215]

My last girlfriend wasn't thrilled that I carried. Sure enough the day her car broke down in the middle of the night in the city she was sure glad I was carrying.

Never heard a word after it.

[daschnoz]

My wife used to rolls her eyes a bit when I would "load up". It started with the Beretta 32 on the ankle and has progressed to the full sized Sig 220 on the hip. She doesn't even think about it any more. She just knows that there will be some steel on my right hip when she hugs me. I've never needed it (thank God), but there have been a couple of times where she told me that knowing I was armed made her feel a bit less worried.

[FJRMarty]

According to the media, that wide-eyed checkout girl probably thinks only one thing about guns and non-uniformed people who have them - bad things happen.
"Three gunmen robbed the quick-stop and ..."
"A gunman in a mask walked into a bank demanding money..."
"An armed man held off police for several hours..."
This seems to be why the initial effort to quell the observer's sudden panic and threat to their safety when spotting the gun is to ask "Are you a cop?" because a cop with a gun is what they are comfortable with. That is what they see when the universe in in order. You with a gun and not being a cop is outside their comfort / knowledge zone, thus the immediate panic.

You think we will ever hear this on the news:
"Two white men and a black man open-carried, and 4 others conceal-carried, in Giant Eagle yesterday and nothing happened."

"Two armed mothers took their 5th graders to the bank to teach them how to save their allowances. Nothing happened."

"Neighbors didn't report the man with a gun walking on Smith St yesterday. "



Was she cute? Photos??

[brownman]

Pretty damn funny.


You do have your LTCF right?

[PennsyPlinker]

I've been in that Weis a bunch of times OC, but it has been a long time since the last time. I suspect they have rolled over a whole lot of employees since then.

[vapochilled]

Pretty damn funny.


You do have your LTCF right?

Yeh cute(ish) this is Macungie, you see a cute girl, she's likely a tourist
Do have my LTCF, got it mainly for the ease of transport to/from the range.
Until my wife warms to it, I'm not pushing it. She's not worried about guns, far from after 3 years in the IDF, just does not like the idea. However when I have carried and said nothing until she's seen me talking it off after we return home, it's nothing more than a rolled eyes.
It's a proccess, that I'll win in the end