Carrying in Church

[aerod1]

Do you carry in Church? If so what do you carry?
Depending on how I am dressed, I may be carrying a Taurus 357 revolver, a Kel-tec P-11, a Beretta Tomcat or something else. When looking in my closet trying to decide what to wear, I also look in my gunsafe to see what will go well with what I am wearing. What I mean is, I want to make sure the clothes and the gun are compatible so far as being comfortable and concealable. I now consider my carry weapon as part of my wardrobe.
BTW, I know for a fact I'm not the only person carrying at my Church. I know at least five of us who carry. This is legal in Texas.

Jim Hall

 

[Hkmp5sd]

Yep.

My normal CCW gun, Glock 17.

 

[aikidoka-mks]

yes,

walther ppk/s in belly band, shirt tucked in.

Mark

 

[HIPOWER]

I'm a pastor, and I definitely always at least take my Glock 26 or Glock 36 to church. I either leave it locked in my office, or if I'm wearing a jacket I keep in an an IWB holster. I've actually preached a few sermons with my gun on my hip.
Most of the men in my church are hunters and several are avid shooters. On any given Sunday I would say that there are at least 10 guys in our small church who are armed, out of about 75 in attendence.

 

[Gerald McDonald]

In Texas I thought it was a no no to carry in church, at least it was at the time I got mine.

 

[Dobe]

I think a polished stainless would make a nice Sunday-go-to-meeting gun.

What-da-ya think?

Dobe

 

[CleverNickname]

In Texas I thought it was a no no to carry in church, at least it was at the time I got mine.

It was until the Wedgewood Baptist shooting in Dallas a few years ago. Then the Tex. Legislature decided that maybe carry in churches wasn't such a bad idea after all...

 

[.45Ruger]

I carry in church when I get to go. Mainly I carry an XD 40 but now I have the new XD 9 Subcompact so it will be my new carry gun.

 

[nemesis]

Yeah, I carry in Church; always. It's a Para C7.45 LDA, like an Officers Model. I carry it in a Galco Deep Cover tuckable IWB holster with my shirt tucked in and it sits behind my hip but just far enough forward that the butt doesn't strike the back of the pew.

God doesn't want the Forces of Evil doing their deeds in His house.

 

[Serpico]

You bet...some of the nuns I had in grade school are still there....

 

[Poohgyrr]

Yes.

Typically a Hi Power.

 

[Gordon]

When I had legal authorization (sworn) I'd carry a Colt Commander .45 in a Sparks IWB Summer special. I was skinny then and it hid OK under sport jacket. In the 80's I carried a Colt Agent in a Kramer pocket holster back pocket with a sweater or jacket. In the 90's I got fatter and less paronoid so I carried a model 950 Berratta .25 with and extra 9 round magazine. Now I am carrying a Keltec .32 and a 4 1/15" knife. In the 70's I did have to pull .45acp to arrest a very agressive drug addict/drunk with a knife who barged in and wouldn't quiet down after I tried the brotherly love routine.

 

[voilsb]

yup. my normal carry gun. currently a beretta 92fs, but hopefully I'll be able to afford a smaller gun (officer's model 1911) sometime soon.

I found out last month when I was working in the nursery that it's ... interesting ... trying to keep it concealed while carrying a baby who just doesn't want to be happy.

 

[WYO]

Carry all you want. Just don't drink the coffee.

 

[chaim]

Um, since I don't go to church I guess the answer is no.

However, when I move to a CCW state I have every intention to carry when I go to synagogue (if it is legal in the state I go to). First, anti-semetism is on the rise everywhere (including here in the US), and while it isn't widespread, anti-semetic violence is up as well (though nothing like what is being seen in Paris these days). Also, since Orthodox Jews go to synagogue to pray two, and when possible, three times a day, and often at other times for classes or individual religious study as well, it would simply be too much of a pain to take it off whenever entering the shul (another word for synagogue).

 

[Ala Dan]

Yes

cuz some thug may want to make off with the collection
plate! SIG-Sauer P220A in .45 ACP, as you
get more bang for the buck!

Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member

 

[BerettaNut92]

Sunday morning, folks, lock and load!

Tee hee!

 

[Sam]

When you live in a state that operates CCW on a "wink and a nod", life is difficult anyhow.
With the exception of picking up a prisoner from the lockup, I won't do business anyplace where I am not armed. My preacher has the same attitude I do. Who am I to question.

Sam

 

[Lone_Gunman]

It against the law in Georgia to carry a gun to church.

 

[rebbryan]

i'm pretty it's illegal here too in south carolina, and i only know of 2 police officers in my church and i'm only sure that 1 of them carries. it's a very large church too, sorta askin for trouble...

 

[cool45auto]

Lone: concealed is concealed.

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[LiquidTension]

What is this "church" that you people speak of? I am unfamiliar with this word. Something is trying to push its way up from the depths of memory, but it is still fuzzy....

 

[Standing Wolf]

Being an atheist, I spend very little time in churches, but if I were a church-goer, I'd carry.

 

[Bainx]

However, when I move to a CCW state I have every intention to carry when I go to synagogue (if it is legal in the state I go to).

chaim, chaim, chaim....to heck with "the rules". You have a God given right to defend yourself!

 

[Flashpoint]

It was until the Wedgewood Baptist shooting in Dallas a few years ago. Then the Tex. Legislature decided that maybe carry in churches wasn't such a bad idea after all...

That's the exact reason that I carry to church. For some reason Ar. Leg. don't understand that CCWs that carry to church are there to counter the people that don't care that murder is against the law.

Lone: concealed is concealed.

Yep, I agree. I carry to protect my family (blood and spiritual) from the ignorance of our political body. Does this make me as bad as the guy that comes in to reak havock, or just responsible?

Oh, Steyr M40 in a Highnoon tuckable.