Pet Peeve about guys who carry and dont seem to realize they are wearing a gun.

[Glasstream15]

I don't OC, it's illegal in Florida.

But I can relate to bumping things. I spent 30 years as a welding inspector on major construction projects. I know exactly where my head is and I never bump it. But I had to wear a hard hat. And I never, even after 30 years, learned exactly where it is. I constantly bumped it, sometimes to the point of almost having a disastrous fall.

So I can see someone occasionally bumping things with a hip carried gun. It just happens.

 

[ny32182]

If you carry something every day you are going to bump it from time to time, be it a flashlight, gun, anything else on your Batman utility belt, or your body parts for that matter... It is a carry gun; a tool, as long as the sights don't get out of whack it doesn't really bother me.

As far as resting my arm/hand/whatever on the gun to make sure it is there? No, I do not do that. Maybe I would if I were OCing in a crowd, but I don't do that either. This is one of the two primary advantages of CC as far as I'm concerned: the possibility of a "gun grab" is virtually non-existant.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Dang double naught, you never bump your head, or your elbow or stub your toe? I tend to do it when I am distracted or getting out of unfamiliar cars. I try to look on the bright-side and consider bumping my head and opportunity to fine-tune my cursing skills.

Right. I have never bumped me head, arm, elbow, toe, etc. I have total situational awareness down to the micron of the location of my physical being within my surroundings as well as knowing the locations of all things, stationary and moving, within my immediate and nearby environments.

As per the original kd7nqb's concerns, I have respect for myself as a deadly weapon (hence the 00 code name). I just feel if that we are going to take a rant of such significance and apply it to only one aspect of the deadly force system (as deadly weapons such as guns only operate via the biological sensory and deployment system), then we are missing the oh-so critical biological portion of the deadly force continuum that must be showed the same, if not more concern than is being mentioned.

To express such concern over bumpage to just the firearm aspect of the system without concern for the biological aspect is naive and just plain silly.

Or maybe such concern over bumpage by other people is just plain silly in and of itself. Ya think? The notion that if a guy bumps his gun on a door frame is some how a poor reflection on all gun owners is just blowing things WAAAAY out of proportion. It may be a less than ideal reflection of that person as a gun carrier (as you don't know that the person owns the gun, necessarily), but it doesn't represent all gun owners anymore than a bad guy robbing a bank with a gun is a reflection on all gun owners.

 

[searcher451]

How about "bumping" your finger into the trigger when you think that the gun you are carrying is unloaded and you in front of a bunch of kids in a classroom?

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There's nothing funny about this, of course, except that it makes me howl every time I see it.