Gun shirts & stickers, pro or con?

[jackstinson]

I use an old canvas tool bag for a range bag, most "range bags" look too much like range bags.

And I thought that I was odd for using a Fender Stratocaster gig bag to transport firearms.
My neighbors do not need to know.

As for shirts and stickers? Wasn't this subject just discussed in another thread recently?
I have a Jimenez Arms t-shirt that I was given...it is very comfortable and I wear it around the house.
I've never once said to anyone, "From my cold dead hands"...so why would I wear that on a shirt?
I'm not one to put stickers all over my vehicles now. It's been 41 years since I was 16 and needed to be hip, cool, and groovy.
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[rocinante]

I do not put anything that displays any attitude or preferences on my vehicles. Not politics, guns, even sports. They sit there defenseless and any dip could vandalize it if they found something objective. Clothing I don't care because they would have to take the beef up with me and I am not of the mien that says kick me. I have a jacket with about eighty patches and many of them gun related. Nobody has ever commented except for compliments. Wife hates the jacket

 

[Deanimator]

I wear an NRA ballcap virtually all the time, ESPECIALLY when I'm in Chicago.

The only real problem I ever had was with an elderly cleaner in a Lakewood, Ohio McDonalds who gave me a load of crap and started babbling about "banning" the NRA. I told him that the last time we started banning organizations we managed to misplace 6,000,000 Jews somewhere, to which he replied that he "wasn't so sure that was such a bad thing". He didn't tell me anything I didn't already know about anti-gunners. He just confirmed it.

 

[627PCFan]

My Camp: Are you paying me to advertise for you or giving me free stuff? Hasnt happened yet.

 

[ArmedBear]

Most if not all are horribly unfashionable, so no, I wont' wear them.

Hear, hear. It's not that a shirt screams "gun" that bothers me. I just don't like my shirts to scream "Stupid trailer trash who paid $20 for this special extra-hideous t-shirt!"

However, some gun-related t-shirts pass muster, at least insofar as I wear printed t-shirts, which really isn't every day. They're not shirts you see at gun shows or Sportsman's Whorehouse, usually.

Tactically, it depends. I agree that, in situations with many people around, an experienced criminal who is committed to killing a bunch of people might take out those he sees as potential threats.

However, most criminals are stupid, scared, and not exactly well-trained. They want easy money, not a murder charge. So, if you're walking by yourself downtown, and you look like a meek metrosexual with a fat wallet, you're probably a target, whereas if you look like a crazy broke redneck who wouldn't hesitate to shoot a mugger, then shoot him again to be sure he's dead, you might just be left alone, in favor of the next person who screams "victim" and "easy money."

So it depends.

I don't think stupid gun t-shirts are intimidating. I just don't think that "meek" is always the best way to appear, to a mugger looking for a target.

 

[ForumSurfer]

My Camp: Neutral.

I simply don't care. As long as I don't look like a clown when I leave the house, I'm cool. I have a few gun related t shirts, but they're freebies. I don't wear them out other than yard work or something simply because I don't like the way they are cut. I have the underside lid of my toolbox and my stainless pc case littered with various gun related stickers....and high performance car part stickers, and computer part stickers and tons of other freebie stickers. That's simply because I have a bit of a fetish for freebie stickers. I can't help bu not stick the little things somewhere. Not on a vehicle though. I hate visible bumper stickers and window stickers. Those little warning stickers all over every car's visor's and radiator support annoy the crap out of me.

That being said, I do approve of the following window sticker for some reason:

That one just gets me everytime for some reason. Everyone loves a smiling monkey that's handy with fixing stuff. Reminds me of me.

 

[P.B.Walsh]

NRA stickers on the front and rear windows.

Why, because I am pround to be a member!!

 

[sonick808]

i don't use stickers, period. Shirts, definitely. Glock, Dillon, several of the great designs from "tap rack bang", Scottsdale Gun Club, etc.

 

[Hokkmike]

I figure if a company wants to advertise on a shirt I wear then they can pay me to buy it instead of the other way around.

As far as stickers go, if they have cutting sentiment or are unusally funny and entertaining I am all for them. I usually put them on my guitar case.

My favotite 2 so far....(not gun related)

[U]New Orleans - We put the FUN back in FUNERAL.[/U] (and)

Cavemen - We are people too!

 

[One-Time]

originally posted by: HGUNHNTR


^ As well as your user name.

Hahaha I didnt think anyone got it but me LOL

 

[NotSoFast]

I don't believe in bumper stickers or signs on t-shirts or my home of any kind. Like you I'd rather not advertise.

 

[Losov]

"Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you"

I like NotSoFast's sig. The reason I'm getting my CCW is because a friend (who is my age) said he got his because he figured he's too old to fight or to run.

 

[hunto]

I lump people who wear gun shirts with those who wear Tapout stuff, or NASCAR stuff.

Gun stickers on a vehicle? That's about like the little square Holley stickers guys put on their 200K mile truck on the rear window, so, along with the glasspacks, it sounds tough.

Not to mention, it screams "Break into me! I might have nice guns to steal!"

 

[Kentucky_Rifleman]

i am really sick of the schools indoctrinating my grand kids so i like those pasty faced educators know where i stand........... maybe...........

Lol. I'm with you, even though I'm a weathered faced educator

I teach high school - English no less - and I wear a tastefully logo-ed Remington Coat. It's clearly and outdoor coat with a Remington Clays Patch on the left breast pocket and an American flag patch on the right shoulder.

Everyone in the building knows I hunt and shoot - kids, administration, faculty, parents, everyone knows. A couple of my co-workers were closet sportsmen, but have since become increasingly more open about their hobbies since I'm so open. I've even made of few new shooting friends when parents who like shooting discover that I'm into the sport as well.

In fact, several parents have been delighted to discover I'm a 2A guy. So far, not one single parent has complained, and I work for a traditionally liberal inner-city school.

KR

 

[Doggy Daddy]

American flag stickers on each rear window of the car. No other stickers or decals on it at all. However, I have a 6' storage cabinet in the garage/shop that holds holsters, bullet traps, cleaning supplies, etc. I'm always looking for another (gun/RKBA) sticker to put on the doors of it.

DD

 

[nitetrane98]

I've always had a bit of an aversion to paying somebody to advertise their merchandise. The Tommy Hilfiger, Old Navy, Polo stuff just floors me somehow.

I do like, however, the generic, facetious type pokes at certain things.

I would definitely buy a T-shirt with Art Eatman's Firing Line sig.

"You're from BATFE? Hey great, I use all of your fine products!" or something like that.

Or maybe another I saw somewhere. "BATF? Great, do you have an order form on you?

 

[ArmedBear]

E.g., I have one that says, "Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms... Who's bringing the chips?" on the back. I save it for special occasions, since I have never found another one like it.

Smith and Wesson suckered me into advertising for them by making a decent-looking shirt that says, "Yes, that's a pistol in my pocket." Again, special occasions.

I lump people who wear gun shirts with those who wear Tapout stuff, or NASCAR stuff.

Some Tapout stuff is at least stylish in design, though it might as well say, "Jerk" on it. NASCAR stuff just looks tacky, no matter what it is. However, neither logo exactly screams "mug me", for those who consider tactics...

 

[swiftak]

Don't do the shirt advertising thing. I do have some stickers on my truck. They are "United States Army, "NRA", "DONT TREAD ON ME", AND "OBAMA SUCKS".

 

[GEM]

In TX, there were car burglars who hit cars with NRA, etc. stickers -higher prob. of finding a gun in the car. Esp. with the new laws about having a gun in the car.

Same with your house. Says - wait till owner leaves for some guns.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

Don't have any t-shirts. I've got a Leupold sticker on the back glass of my truck though, which is not exactly a gun sticker. I wouldn't have a problem with a tasteful t-shirt, but I don't want one that screams, "Uneducated hillbilly". I do think the Ruger logo is awesome and would like a t-shirt with it on the fron. Some may think that distasteful, but hey, we're all different.

 

[INMY01TA]

I wear T shirts but have yet to put any stickers on my vehicles.

 

[Aw4g63]

For those of you that claim you don't wear tshirts with advertising, *** do you wear? Plain tshirts every day?

 

[Zach S]

No stickers, but a few gun shirts. I just dont like plastering stickers on my car since I prefer an uncluttered look - even emblems and nameplates have came off a few of them.

If I see someone wearing a gun shirt, I dont assume they have a gun on them any more than I's assume that someone in a panthers jersey plays for the team.

 

[ArmedBear]

*** do you wear? Plain tshirts every day?

There are other shirts in the world besides plain t-shirts and printed t-shirts. You might also find beer other than Bud, vehicles other than Ford and Chevy, and dogs other than Labradors.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

I love guns, of course, but this does not extend to advertising them on my clothing, vehicles or home.