NRA Stickers on Car. Good Idea or Not?

My vote is bad opsec.

IMHO it makes your car a break-in target as there may be a gun.

We discuss this every few months.

The conventional wisdom is "no, don't advertise."

The counter points are, a) "I'd rather they knew to go bother someone else," and b) "I like to show my support for RKBA and identify with other like-minded folks."

And the practical reality is there are A LOT of NRA stickers on a LOT of cars out there.

There's really no answer. Do whichever feels right to you.

I like the fact that it's like 1000 to 1, if not more, people are NRA members and don't have stickers, for reasons given. Generally speaking it depends where you live. In urban liberal loony land, people will deface your sticker or damage your car, and worse, the ever present criminal element will see your car/home as a target WHEN YOU ARE AWAY. In rural USA, well all your neighbors have multiple guns and likely are NRA members. If not, get to know them and have them join.

An NRA sticker advertises to the world that you likely have a $500 handgun under the seat. I wouldn't do it.

I think it depends on where you live and where you leave your vehicle parked. I have an NRA sticker on my truck, but don't on the wifes car. We usually drive the car on trips out of state, so I like to remain incognito. However around my part of Tennessee every other vehicle has an NRA sticker on it and other stickers that offend liberals. But I still think about parking in public areas and try to keep my truck in highly visible areas.

It's probably ok when your in your car but not when it's parked and alone. Makes it a target.

I trim off the outer ring of the NRA sticker where the wording is. What I'm left with is the red circle with the eagle and rifles.

I've had one of those trimmed stickers on the back of my cars for at least 9 years straight. I live in a big city and travel all kinds of places for work. So far, not a single issue due to the sticker.

It's almost like no one but NRA members know what the NRA logo looks like without the wording to go with it.

Even if I were inclined to apply window or bumper stickers to my vehicles, I would not include anything of a potentially dramatically polarizing/emotional nature ... and I believe that anything firearms-related would have the secondary downside of potentially increasing my chances of the vehicle being targeted for break-in.

FWIW, JMO.

I have had an NRA membership sticker in my truck window for way over a decade now with no negative repercussions. And one in the window of the car I owned before the truck, again over a decade, and nothing.

FWIW, the truck has a Christian fish on the tailgate and I had a Ceolocanth Pro Shop window sticker for years with no negative repercussions either one.

Sometimes we worry too much. I saw a lady buying two door signs of the "protected by S&W" and "nothing here worth dying over" variety with a fist holding a revolver; I was tempted to ask if she even had a gun at home, but decided that would be (a) rude and (b) none of my business. My landlord had left a "Trespassers will be shot; survivors shot again" sticker on the back door of the apartment I lived in for ten years; never was burgled, so not a big deal.

I don't know how long I have been a member of NRA but I have had a sticker on at least one vehicle every day since and have never had a problem, advantage, woo-hoo, horn honk, cussing out, or anything related to the sticker. I live in what is a pretty urban area so I go to the DMV, Walmart, Tag office and such where you might expect to see some "inner city personnel" but, as I said, they have never even acted like they saw the sticker.

Put a Bama sticker on and you will get "Roll Tide" 100x per day.

I concur with all those appose any form of firearm related stickers on vehicles....for all the reasons others have posted...

I worry more about the sticker prompting a shakedown from a LE stop than a thief or vandal.
Traveling in non gun friendly areas, I'm sure that sticker will cause additional questions.
On another note, I thankfully live in a community where the high school principle has an I'M THE NRA sticker on the back window of his truck.

An NRA sticker advertises to the world that you likely have a $500 handgun under the seat. I wouldn't do it.

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i currently dont have an NRA sticker on my car........not because its "bad OPSEC" or because im worried about someone breaking in and looking for guns or some crap like that.....

i dont have one because i dont want some leftist loon to key my car.

Part of why I like having the means to RKBA in the first place is so I don't have to live in fear. I really think the concerns are overblown and we need to tell the world that we, the normal folk, have guns.

The best argument I've made for RKBA is when people find out their friend or coworker that they think highly of (me) is progun, and they think if he is pro gun maybe they aren't all Adam Lanza's and abortion clinic shooting rednecks. The common perception in my area is that there is no good reason to have a gun and that no good people have guns. I'm a demonstrably "good person" in the conventional sense and it opens people's eyes to know that I'm pro gun.

If you aren't interested in politics maybe don't put it up, though.

An NRA sticker advertises to the world that you likely have a $500 handgun under the seat. I wouldn't do it.

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This, even if you don't make a habit of keeping it under your seat that doesnt mean someone won't break your window to find out. That's my one and only concern I would not be concerned for purposes of traffic stops and random interactions.

NRA stickered car vandalism sounds a lot like razor blades in apples- Where is the evidence of this happening on any regularity? I've never seen or heard of it.

First page of google for "nra bumpersticker car vandalism news" only turns up hits to other paranoid folks on other forums. As far as I can tell it just doesn't happen. Also, this thread is a recurring one, apparently.

Just put your NRA sticker on a car that has one of those "coexist" stickers on it...

My car has a couple of traditional archery stickers, an American flag sticker, an NRA member sticker and a Primer Martial Arts school sticker.
Driving it around the "People's Republik of Lawrence" has not caused us any trouble...

I've had my NRA stickers on all my automobiles. Never had a break-in, even in my current soft-top roadster, which I leave unlocked or top down most of the time.
The few times I was asked about that sticker was folks confusing it it as the USMC emblem.

Sam1911 said:

We discuss this every few months.

The conventional wisdom is "no, don't advertise."

The counter points are, a) "I'd rather they knew to go bother someone else," and b) "I like to show my support for RKBA and identify with other like-minded folks."

And the practical reality is there are A LOT of NRA stickers on a LOT of cars out there.

There's really no answer. Do whichever feels right to you.

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I put whatever I want on my cars, including NRA stickers.


If people really are going to assume you have a gun because you have an NRA sticker, good! They'll probably attack or attempt to victimize somebody else then.

H no. I don't even wear my NRA hat when off my property. I feel it just brings more attention to me and I like to keep a low profile when out and about. I added the stickers I get from them to my bumpersticker collection which is inside my garage.

poboy6 said:

Just put your NRA sticker on a car that has one of those "coexist" stickers on it...

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Not sure on this one way or the other... but memory indicates that at one time down here we were all advised to remove any police related decals, signs, etc from our personal vehicles since they were absolutely being targeted in the Miami area. This was during the cocaine cowboy years when I even lost an issued shotgun held in an electro-lock mount in my marked police car -right in front of the Dade county courthouse... and of course the folks I worked for did their best to let me know that it was my fault.... Nothing like being told just how high your status is as a patrolman.....