Difficulties with your CCW

[CoRoMo]

I wasn't able to come across another poll exactly like this. Forgive me if one exists. Also, I'm sure this poll has flaws, let it go, and create your own poll with perfection.

I'm constantly focused on this topic because my work clothes really don't make it easy to conceal my piece like I'd like to. I carry everyday/everywhere, but only because I came across a nifty idea for CC and have used it since then.

I guess I'd be interested to know how you go about carrying with the obstacles of your daily routine, but this poll was really intended to see how many of us actually have obstacles that impede or prevent CC. If you have ingenious thoughts, please share.

 

[esq_stu]

I find a way. It's called "don't ask - don't tell." And don't go to places with metal detectors if you can't lawfully be armed there.

 

[Exmasonite]

too much time spent on a university camper. i feel SO much safer.

 

[56FordGuy]

I carry whenever and where ever I legally can. Unfortunately, this does not include my job. I drive a commercial vehicle home every night (from what I understand, it is illegal to carry in a CMV), and on top of that my employer prohibits concealed carry, which in TN would make it against the law for me to be armed on the job. As if that isn't enough, during my workday I usually travel to several different customer's facilities, most of whom have No Firearms Allowed signs, and am required to pass through metal detectors on my way out of the building.

 

[StorkPatrol]

I'm in the military and can't carry on base. While on base is certainly a low threat environment, it does suck to enter/exit my house unarmed 10 times every week.

 

[Prepster]

I'm presently in college, and I'm not willing to risk getting expelled and destroying my future. I do carry pretty much every where else though. I live off campus, so I am armed the majority of the time, just not in class or in my friends' dorms.

 

[Shadan7]

What esq stu said.

That may mean a smaller gun than I would usually like. Or it may mean tweaking my outfit. But I find a way to make it work.


7

 

[Legacy 6]

I second StorkPatrol's sentiments. Sure on Post is a "low-threat" environment... just like anywhere else. However, if the post was ever attacked, how long do you think it would take to get a requisition through for ammunition, get all the weapons signed out of the arms rooms, and distribute ammo???

I carried everyday in Iraq, and when I got back, where the American death toll by percentage even here in the mid-west was way above that in Iraq... I felt bare. I really didn't have to worry about a dude coming into my trailer, but now that I'm home?

I've had my girfriend's car broken into right outside my apartment window last fall, and the house I rent now isn't as secure as I'd like... not to mention, right in the middle of town.

Like the guy says, I go in and out of my house 10 times a week minimum... and sometimes my girlfriend is home alone too...

"The most useless gun in the world is one locked in a safe."
~RWM

 

[uh-oh]

Like Legacy 6 and Stork Patrol, I carry whenever I am not at work. I can not carry at work because I work in a foreign trade zone governed by MarSec and am subject to search whenever I enter. I also wouldn't park somewhere else and ride my bike in because I don't feel my truck is as well fortified as my house. Not to mention I'd probably get creamed by a tractor-trailer on the way in or out since the place is along a 55 mph two-lane road with no shoulders.

 

[OleCodger]

Rules, Rules, Rules......

I carry daily except at work (against company rules). Can you believe that I unlock a safe, count money in three register drawers and then carry them from the back of the building to the front? And if that isn't enough, I make trips back and forth to the bank for deposits and change orders in amounts that I won't disclose here. of course walking across a parking lot to get to my truck with no protection. I am "covered" with a Kahr CW45 and the little .380 when in the vehicle making the bank trips regardless of the company rules but defenseless at work (except when I "forget" and leave my LCP sleeping peacefully in it's Nemesis holster in my right front pocket). To put this craziness into perspective, it's perfectly ok for customers to carry within the store but not employees. Guess that just goes to show that our customers are smarter than we are!!! If it weren't for the fact that I know I work in the private sector it would be very easy to imagine that I work for the government.

 

[Deanimator]

My boss knows I carry and doesn't mind.

The only effect of my daily attire is to make it mandatory for me to carry IWB almost 100% of the time. I NEVER, EVER wear untucked shirts at work, and almost never at any other time. In warm weather cover garments are either uncomfortable or wildly out of character for me. That means tucked IWB 99% of the time. Works just fine for me, from a 3" Model 65 Smith to a Norinco M1911. I wear Don Hume IWBs that aren't designed to tuck, but still tuck pretty well anyway. About 1% of the time, I carry a Smith 36 in a Desantis pocket holster.

My biggest difficulty carrying is having to disarm to eat in restaurants with liquor licenses, even though I never drink if I'm going to be carrying. Very few other places where I live are cpzs, mostly the Post Office, Kinkos, and a few office buildings I don't need to go into anymore anyway. In fact, the building where I eat lunch most of the time USED to be posted, but after an incident with a gun, the "no guns" signs were REMOVED. Apparently the landlord (whom I know) figured out that a picture of a gun with a red line through it isn't some kind of magical talisman. At least one of his tenants has an Ohio CHL. The building where I work is owned by the same person and was never posted.

I carry virtually every day.

 

[ar10]

I'm:
1. retired
2. don't drink
3. have a "metal shoulder"
So. I carry mine everywhere. We don't go to bars and the ones we do frequent have a separate dining area. And whether I'm armed or not I set off all metal detectors, I just show them the little card I have to carry around with me if asked. Oh. forgot, I also have a metal brace on my leg, that'll do it too.

 

[JackOfAllTradesMasterAtNone]

Have kids that are used to guns... But they are farely popular and we're pretty involved in their activities with them and their friends. 'Getting made', by one of their friends only spawns questions. That's fine for some kids, but it's some parents that I'd prefer not to offend. Once we get to know one of the boy's new girlfriend's then we 'expose' certain things about us. Often we've found even young girls that are quite open to hunting and guns for protection. But there have been the odd ducks here and there.

My boys are also accomplished athletes so there are activities on public school grounds pretty often that I attend. Laws about guns on school grounds are pretty strict here.

So 'where' I'm going is a constant concern.

I work at a University, but thankfully my office isn't directly on campus. Still, CC is not permitted in the building. That doesn't mean that my pistol is not in my truck parked right outside my office window daily. Bending the rules just a bit, since this is a school parking lot. Bending, so I have something when I'm on the road.

-Steve

 

[jbauch357]

I work at at company that has very strict anti-weapon policies, and even mentioning that you have a weapon in your car can get you fired. For that reason I carry almost all the time that I'm not at work, or heading to/from work.

 

[jackstinson]

I had to go with option #3, only because I cannot carry inside my job's building. My handgun is locked in my Jeep while I am at work. No big deal really; our facility is locked, we're a bunch of geek engineers, the facility is not inside a city and it's all mellow around here.
I know I know....I hear the comments already. But I've worked for this company 27 years now and *YES* it is important to me to keep my job, even if that means observing their silly rule.
Other than those 8 hours of the day, I do carry a handgun now.
And FWIW: I never "mention" I have a handgun to anyone here at work...anyone.

 

[j_charles]

I carry (almost all... as in 95%) of the time. Even at work. Our office doesn't have a specific Yes/No policy on firearms that I'm aware of. Besides, it just so happens that my dad is in the executive staff here (though in a different department), and Iknow he's carried in the office on occassion, so I figure it must be okay. The only time I haven't made it a habit of carrying is when my job requires me to be in the public schools (which is actually the main part of my job dexcription). It's perfectly legal to carry in schools here, but in my professional capacity I haven't wanted to risk getting made (get fired, hurt the repuation of my company, etc.). Though that is likely to change as soon as I find an effective way to carry DEEP. I just don't like the idea of dieing in another Columbine (or Mumbai).