Married Ladies, Do You Carry When Your Husband Doesn't?

Purse carry is amazing! Nobody ever searches my wife's self made cloth purse with the FN in it, so she is armed at times when I am not.
Curious though why some guys wouldn' like it.

Um, if my wife starts carrying and then tells me that she isn't going to carry today because I'm carrying

I will light her up
what type of excuse it that?
YOUR safety is YOUR responsibility
that your husband is also willing to defend you is NICE, but what happens when he is down and you are unarmed?

When we are both out together, my wife generally defaults to depending on my being armed. I have reconciled myself to respect her decisions regarding her life's choices. I didn't take her to raise and being her own adult person, she's certainly free to make her own choices and deal with the repercussions of them. I love her and support her and so, having talked to her about self-defense issues, she can do as she wills.

Should armed self-defense be required while we are out together, she knows that the airline spiel about putting your own oxygen mask on first before helping another will apply. She'll get to cover as best she can.

He should get a small gun like a Smith and Wesson J Frame revolver and slip it in his pocket. If that weight is too much theres the Ruger LCR, that gun weighs as much as the ammo it carries!

I personally Like the P32, it really disappears, it isn't much, but then you aren't going to war
and I have carried it in my shirt pocked (breast pocket) like a pack of smokes before. Really just melts away.

There have been times after work* when the Mrs and I met up for something and she was armed and I wasn't ... until she provided me with my weapon.

It wouldn't bother me a bit for her to be armed and me not, except that I'd be annoyed at being unarmed** and happy that the person I was with was armed. More often we end up out and about with me armed and her carrying her "SURPRISE!" ... a Kimber-imported PepperBlaster ... I recently bought her (at her request) a specific gun and a flashbang holster in another attempt to make on-body carry easier, we'll see how that goes.




* (secure facility with XRay, metal detector, armed security, limited access, etc etc ... about the only GFZ I think has a chance of working)
** (well, un-gun-ed, I'm always capable of some level of defense just by being bigger and meaner than your average petty thug)

My wife quit carrying. Part due to the fact that of all the guns in the safes she only wants to use 4 of them. One is her double 410(can't conceal that), one is my 270(again can't conceal it), next is my 454(toooo much gun to pack everywhere), and then my P95( would be an ok choice but she can't hit a house from the inside of it with that one). I did install a car safe in the truck and keep a 22 Rossi revolver and a Bersa 380 in there alwaysso if she is out without me she is armed.

3KillerBs said:

My husband found it humorous but I can imagine that some guys wouldn't take it well.

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As an active duty service member, my wife as pretty adamant about getting her CHL and carrying concealed when I was deployed or off on some multi-day exercise. She carries as often as me (whenever legally feasible) and there have been times I just didn't grab the gun, but she was packing...I take it very well A real man would encourage women to train and carry concealed...besides, I find it sexy!!! Well, that's what I tell her anyways!

Another aspect is when we go to a social event; we take turns as to who gets to drive (and carry) and who gets a bottle or two of beer or glass of wine. We both got our first CHL's in Texas and they don't play with carrying and drinking. I'm not talking inebriation, but it pays to play it safe and when I get to drink a beer, it's comforting to know my driver and escort is well armed!

My daughter is doing a dual-enrollment program and going to a local university for her senior year this year. She won't turn 18 until next summer, but my wife has already charged me with getting her a gun for her apartment and getting her trained for when she turns 21 and can get her CHL.

I applaud you for carrying and it's even more important if your husband can't. An armed woman is a woman to respect.

ROCK6

^That's exactly what I got for my 21st! Haha.

I have $500 sitting in my gun safe, waiting for the day that she decides to carry a handgun. It's been there for years.

My husband found it humorous but I can imagine that some guys wouldn't take it well.

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It wouldn't bother me in the least if my wife were carrying and I wasn't. I would be very happy if she would carry if I couldn't.

yes

Thank you 3KillerBs,

The stingy one word reply above is from my shy better half. Her first post!

We both carry and there are some rare times when she is armed and I am not. I find it very comforting.

3KillerBees, thank you. I usually get on here and read, not post.

This was taken 38 years agur badge numbers were our radio call signs. I was Pat 25(HP) and she was Charlie 25 (SO)


She's been my back up for 39 years.

She keeps absconding with my guns too.

IGGY

We all should be so lucky. 24 backup. !!!!

I'm never home (OTR truck driver)...so my wife carries anyway, regardless of whether or not I am...she even carries at home.

I snapped this pic last week while she wasn't looking...thats an XD45c.

The Wife

I'm lucky, my wife carries all the time. I too have an injury that makes it difficult to carry. I carry a little Kel-tec .32, so that I do not agravate my hip injury. I would feel very undergunned, except the wife carries a .40 in her purse. God bless her. I'm lucky to have her. "Gun control is the theory that a woman found dead in an ally, raped and strangled with her own pantyhose, is somehow morally superior to the woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound." After reading that quote one day, it dawned on me that gun control advocates actually believe this. I say that the woman returning home to her husband and kids at the end of the day and giving them a hug, after ridding the streets of a violent dirtbag, and preventing him from commiting future abominations is morally superior. My wife would lay down her life to protect me, she's my bodyguard, and it doesn't make me any less of a man. More than once she's slipped her hand into her purse, and casually walked around to flank someone who menaced me in some way. I can't express how grateful I am to have her in my life. Mick