Carrying Into Other People's Homes

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Do you normally inform someone that you carry prior to going to their home with the gun, or if you're going to a friends do you just not carry?
I know some are made uncomfortable or offended by carrying without their consent.
What is the proper etiquette?
 
Don't ask, don't tell. I bet almost everyone has entered other people's homes with a knife hundreds of times and never thought anything about it. Having a firearm safely strapped to your hip is just as un-likely to harm anyone without operater intervention. It is an emotional issue for people...and nothing more than that.

You are not violating any laws by doing so(assuming your state doesn't require notification, I believe at least one state does)....so carry on and don't out yourself over this.

If the homeowner has any objection to you bringing anything into their home, it is their responsability to notify you of such objection. Until you hear otherwise, there is no reason not to carry on.
 
a few of my friends dont mind. but there are some that think its weird that i carry a gun everywhere.
 
For the most part I avoid having friends that would object to my carrying. Normally, being close friends with someone involves some shared basic values and beliefs. If someone is that set against me carrying in their home, chances are i'm not going to agree with them on multiple other issues as well. That being said I do have one friend who does not want me to carry in her house and because of the circumstances, (she was like a second mother to me) I choose to make an exception in her case. I do tree service and construction and I carry in customers homes and yards all the time, I just make very sure that the gun is hidden well.
 
Unless the person I am visiting tells me no guns allowed, there will never be an issue. If he/she does, then I will simply leave or just not go. So I'm not disarming and I'm not going to waste any time in a pseudo-friendship or business relationship with someone who doesn't trust me and wants to disarm me.
 
We've had this question raised several times before and there is no consensus. Some will and other's won't. There is a smaller percentage that ask, but then decline to visit where carry is not permitted.
 
If it is a friends or relitives home then I feel its up to me as the carrier to let them know I am carring, if they object then I would lock it in my truck. I was raised to respect others feelings and homes just as I would want them to do so with mine. But, If I don't know the people and just have to be there but don't feel comfortable being there without carring then I just go with the "don't ask don't tell" method, if I don't have to be there then I just don't go.
 
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For the most part I avoid having friends that would object to my carrying. Normally, being close friends with someone involves some shared basic values and beliefs.
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While not always sharing my beliefs in gun ownerships, anybody I call a friend at least doesn't mind me carrying a gun. So yeah. Kinda this.
 
For the most part I avoid having friends that would object to my carrying.
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I have no anti gun or liberal friends, so chances of going into their house is almost Zero.

If, for some strange reason I did go into their house I wouldn't bring up the fact I was carrying.
 
And if caught? Any explanation? Or just throw a smoke capsule and disappear like Batman?
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are we talking about carrying or pilfering their jewelry? what do you mean by getting "caught"
 
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I wouldn't carry into someone's home. What would be the need for that? If I did though, the people whose homes I'd go into really wouldn't care.
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Where do you carry? Is there a "need" to carry in the grocery store? Or have a firearm in your home? Or carry when walking the dog? Or whatever, take your pick. Point is, many people would argue that there is no "need" to carry in most of the situations where many of us do.
 
Guess I'm in the "concealed means concealed" group. Wouldn't announce what color underwear or how much cash I had in my pockets either.

It's not about "needing" to carry, I just carry pretty much all the time. Stopping to take the gun off, store it, etc is a pain. Easier just to leave it on in most cases.
 
***Disclaimer: I don't carry or have CPL but I know a few people that do. This is how I feel about them!

I don't have a problem with people carrying into my home, ask permission and I will grant it (this goes for when I am home alone). However don't ask permission and I ask why you feel a need to be armed around me in my home. Actually in my current living situation though it's parents rules and one of them doesn't even want the public owning pistols, so no loaded guns come into this house with them home. An undeclared loaded weapon coming into this house would result in a swift exit on your own or with a uniformed escort... your choice.

I really feel you should ask the homeowner if they are comfortable with you carrying into their home, otherwise I feel it disrespects the homeowner. Heck I assume you ask permission to eat out of their fridge.
 
Is your friend the SAW killer or something? I go to random houses all the time, never had a gun on me, and I'm here to talk about it today....And by random houses I mean "friend of a friend of a friend while drinking" or "some guy off craigslist" not just some guy I know's house. So you have to take your gun off, big deal.

I guess I just don't understand the need to be armed 24/7. I think you should be able to if you'd like, but I definitely don't understand the need for it. I've lived 25 years without fear of getting murdered/robbed/raped/eaten by zombies and I see no need to start living in such fear anytime soon. Personally I feel bad for those who do.

Oh and if someone carried in my house without telling me I'd throw them out. Not cool.
 
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Be aware of the fact that AK law requires you to inform that you are armed before entering a residence.

Beyond that, how much are you required to inform a host? Some things are private.

If you choose to OC, different story. And if the host has already clearly expressed that he will not allow firearms carried in his home, then I think your only honest choices are to enter unarmed or decline the invitation.
 
Here in Arkansas anyone with a CHCL is REQUIRED BY LAW to inform the property owner and bide by his/her wishes.

(19) (A) Any place at the discretion of the person or entity exercising control over the physical location of the place by placing at each entrance to the place a written notice clearly readable at a distance of not less than ten feet (10') that "carryin
g a handgun is prohibited".
(B) (i) If the place does not have a roadway entrance, there shall be a written notice placed anywhere upon the premises of the place.

(ii) In addition to the requirement of subdivision (19)(B)(i) of this section, there shall be at least one (1) written notice posted within every three (3) acres of a place with no roadway entrance.

(C) A written notice as described in subdivision (19)(A) of this section is not required for a private home.

(D) Any licensee entering a private home shall notify the occupant that the licensee is carrying a concealed handgun.


I always politely and calmly tell them that I am, as a CHCL holder, required to inform them and give them the choice since this is there house and I am to follow their rules. Most people are shocked that I give them the respect and the choice of asking. I have never had anyone ever tell me to leave or that they do not want me to carry. You do not have to announce it to the whole world. I usually pull the person aside and make it a private conversation. Frankly, the whole " don't ask don't tell" attitude some people adopt is a bit rude. If it's someones house I do not know or I do not want to inform I simply do not go there and if I have no choice, I disarm. Yes, it is a pain to have to disarm and I even had my 1911 slip from my hands and smack the concrete. It left a nice, large dent in the aluminum frame. I wasn't happy but I relished in the fact that I obeyed the law. I may not like all the laws laid down but it is my responsibility to follow them. Always have respect for the property owner and respect yourself to obey the laws. I realize not all states require you to inform. So, look at it this way. Would you like it if someone you didn't know very well came to your house armed to the hilt and didn't give you the respect or the choice?
 
As the host, it would bother me a lot more if a guest smoked in my house than if he carried a gun. After all, second-hand smoke is a definite health hazard whereas gun carrying isn't -- unless the gun carrier goes suddenly amok. I generally tend to avoid crazy friends. Anyway, I'll speak up with a smoker but won't with a gun carrier. Carrying guns to my house is like "carrying coals to Newcastle." Whatever they bring, I've got them way outgunned.
 
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