Pro gun bumper stickers and CCW

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Hey guys, I've got a quick question, just looking for opinions. I've got a couple of pro gun bumper stickers on my car, nothing extreme. Am I more likely to face harassment from law enforcement because I have pro gun bumper stickers and a CCW permit? I would hope not, because this amounts to nothing more than political profiling. Nothing wrong with displaying my belief in the 2nd ammendment, right? If it matters, I live out here in Colorado.
 
This is a thought connected to this question which does not answer the question. Hope no one minds. My thought about bumper stickers is they just tell people that I have guns at my house so "Why don't you burglarize my place and take them or attempt to do so." I don't care if you have a loaded handgun for protection at home and a world class safe. If they break in when you are gone they will do some sort of damage even if they don't get your guns. I know there are alarm systems also but why invite trouble from crooks!!! Bumper stickers to tell the world our views are nice in many ways but I will not put one on my car that says I am an NRA member or whatever because of the aforementioned reason.
 
Up until recently, I had a "Molon labe" sticker on both my truck and my bicycle.

After some reflection, related to the first two posts in this thread, I removed both.

YMMV.

Nem
 
Up until recently, I had a "Molon labe" sticker on both my truck and my bicycle.

After some reflection, related to the first two posts in this thread, I removed both.

YMMV.

Nem
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Honestly, until THR, I had no clue what Malon Labe meant, especially when in Greek.
 
Well I for one will not bow down to political correctness. I'm not afraid to speak or display my beliefs. Besides, unless someone follows me home, how are they going to know where I live to steal my guns? I'm not overly concerned about that. I live in a rural area 40 miles from the nearest city. Some people are afraid to rock the boat, it might offend someone. Well, I'm not one of those people, if my belief's offend someone, too bad. This whole premise really irritates me, media driven sheep!!:banghead:
 
Honestly, until THR, I had no clue what Malon Labe meant, especially when in Greek.
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Neither did I. I love the story behind the phrase.

I'm not afraid to speak or display my beliefs. Besides, unless someone follows me home, how are they going to know where I live to steal my guns?
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It's a bit different for those of us living in urban areas.

I have a lot of neighbors, all of whom can see my "bumper stickers", which - for the savvy - could bespeak of my battery of arms.

I'm proud to be a gun owner, and don't back down from discussing it with those who need to know.

But for the causal neighbor, who may or may NOT be my friend, mum is the word.

Loose lips sink ships.

Bumper stickers - even if pasted on with the best of intentions - can alert those who would steal to the place to steal.

YMMV.
 
I prefer not to draw attention to myself concerning guns. I'll enjoy a conversations about guns, but do not prefer to participate in a do-you-one-better conversation.

Concealed means CONCEALED. No one should know you carry or possess a gun... Until needed!

Why open yourself up to those issues. Yes, I'm NRA, I Vote, member of a gun club, have a family, and God Fearing.

Isn't this why we all have aliases on this board? We wish to share Ideas, but do not want to open ones self up to ID issues unless we choose to do so...
 
Up until recently, I had a "Molon labe" sticker on both my truck and my bicycle.

After some reflection, related to the first two posts in this thread, I removed both.
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I've had "Molon labe" stickers on both ends of my pickup truck for a couple of years. I haven't been stopped or bothered by law enforcement.

Pilgrim
 
I haven't been stopped or bothered by law enforcement.
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Neither have I.

I suspect that, if anything, they respect the stickers as I respect (most of) them.

But then, it's not LEO's that I worry about at this point.

It's the others who could read the stickers to know what's in my home.

Nem
 
I am in the low profile , do not advertise anything camp.

I am not 'giving in' or "caving in" to anyone or anything by being this way.

What I am is using Situational Awareness and Sending the Perceptions I want to send. I am a sheedog, I am watching the wolves, the sheep and I do not want either to know who I am , where I am, but by golly if need be, they will know!

It is not about LEO giving one a hard time for Pro Gun Sticker - not about the LEO seeing a "Donated To LEO Retirement Fund" sticker thinking they are not going to be pulled over either.

Responsible Firearm Ownerships means...being responsible- period. Get Stopped, may be a tail light out, thank the officer for pointing it , be civil, sincere and get the tailight fixed.

I, like many here have life experiences. Perceptions are read by everyone. Including me, and I happen to also give off perceptions I want folks to perceive.

I am going to read you. I am telling you flat out. Too many years doing a work, you do this.

Toss that Lexus key on the counter at the grocery store to impress me, I spy that certain key(s) on the ring with it - I am going to know you have a bank key, and if I were a BG, I would follow you thinking you were branch bank mgr. ;) Think about that one example folks. This ain't rocket science, this has nothing to do with .gov or .mutantzombie.

1. Don't go to where trouble is
2. Trouble shows up - leave.
3 Not a good idea to advertise for trouble to come to you.

Now that lady and kid going to the car across the street. Humm lady has a diaper bag and kiddo has a ball bat carrier.

a. CarpetCrawler is at the baby sitter, and kiddo is going to a ball game or practice.
b. Mom has her handguns and ammo in diaper bag, and kiddo has .22 rifle in ball bat carrier.

Grocery store stop, and bag boy tosses groceries in trunk and sees a diaper bag and ball bat carrier - a $1 says bag boy is thinking choice (a). Wanna bet?

Contrast that with the guy that takes his sweet time with the "UltmateGun" case and Huge flaming logo, that makes sure all the folks on the block sees he has this case, and then when he makes a grocery run, the bag boy sees "UltimateGun" in the front seat of truck , then on break, or at school or with his buds...
"Hey, you know that dude with the black Macho Truck with fake bullet holes and "if it flies it dies" on the glass that lives on "That" street, he has a "UltimateGun" ...

So he has a safe, he got a wife, a teenage kid? Great just wait until Macho Truck is gone, overpower wife and kid, that safe will open, yep sure will. If lucky that is all that will be violated too.

Think out of the box.
Sheepdogs do...this one does at least.
 
While I am getting wordy I will also add for those who think finding you and your address with only your plate number is easy only for LEOs.....I used to work for a State Government and was not LE and was not with the DOT. I had access to the DOT records and could run plate numbers and VINs and find the identity of registered owners and addresses. Some years ago in the state where I worked anti-abortion activists were writing down plate numbers of cars being driven by clients of abortion clinics. Mysteriously, these clients were getting hate letters from the anti-abortionists. Investigation revealed that an anti-abortion activist worked for, who else, the DOT and was illegally supplying the organization with names and addresses from the plate numbers. This person should have been prosecuted but I think may not even have been fired. This information is not about the abortion issue, it shows one of the possibilities related to people having your plate number.
 
Doesn't bother me a bit. NRA stickers on the truck, S&W and "Support Concealed Carry" t-shirts, of course being from Illinois that is still just a dream. I also have Harley Davidson stickers on the truck and gobs of H-D t-shirts. Yes, someone could decide to come steal my guns. They could also decide to steal the two Harleys in the garage, but neither has happened at least not yet.
I think part of being an old biker is realising what other people think of you is not at all important. And, I am not going to "tone it down" because that just wouldn't be me. Jim.
 
The battle that that phrase came from has been made into a movie (looked like one of those made in the '60s or '70s). I just happend to be channel surfing along about a month or so ago and saw the title of the movie which made me think of the phrase (the title escapes me now, it may have been Thermopylae or something similar).
I turned in about one minute before the Persian general approached Leonidas to ask for his surrender.
I must admit, I got a strange smile and shiver ran through me when he responded.
 
I live in MA and have SIG Sauer, Glock,NRA and local rod and gun club stickers on my SUV;it screams "gunnie" or " gun poser".They're alongside Free Tibet, Reduce-Recycle-Reuse and THINK,it's American stickers.I've never had any issue with an LEO picking me out to pick on but then again,there is barely a city,county or state cop within 15 miles that I haven't shot with before. I figure if someone else won't fly the flag for responsible gun owners being good citizens,I will.Shooting is an important part of my life,no need to hide it and I'm in the newspaper a couple times a year for pieces on shooting ( huge shock to some that a MA paper would have positive coverage of even evil handgun shooting I know ) and if someone wants to track me down and steal my guns from it,good luck but they'd be idiots for not stopping off at my neighbors who have far more things that are easier to steal and worth far,far,far more than even my guns on the blackmarket.I'd rather have more people know I enjoy shooting and collecting guns to fight the common stereotype these liberals have about who a gun owner is than worry about who is going to find out who I am,find where I live,have the cojones to break in a couple hundred yards from the police station and manage to get my safe out of the basement.I'm more worried about pol's taking my guns than the more common type of criminals.If I lived elsewhere,I might choose a different strategy.
I toss MB and Land Rover keys to the cashiers for 'em to use my shopper's card on the key chain daily and you're right,they can spot a bank manager right away.Hmm,or maybe it's because my bank's on the other side of the parking lot? :p
 
Mom has her handguns and ammo in diaper bag, and kiddo has .22 rifle in ball bat carrier.
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It makes me feel better to know I am not the only guy who uses a diaper bag for a range bag. Makes you feel real manly to step up to the counter with your Peter Cottontail bag with a binky hanging off the side. But yes I always try to conceal what I take into/out of my house so as not to tip the neighborhood off to what all I have, nothing to do with shame mind you but the poster I quoted makes a very valid point why advertise to the world that you have a nice big arsenal at home just waiting for a crackhead to steal and sell your $1200 Kimber to RayRay down the block for $20. The same goes for bumper stickers as well, also if I were a cop approching a vehicle at a routine stop and noticed a bumper sticker that says something to the extent off "when they come for you guns give them the ammo first" I might be a little more assertive and brash with the driver than normal. Why do it?
 
I have an NRA window sticker that you can't hardly read unless you're sitting on my trunk lid, and I have a "right of the people to keep and read books" magnet that's stuck to my hood at the moment because I drive a Saturn and apparently the vertical part of the trunk ain't made out of metal.

And that's it.
 
It hasn't happened to me yet...

One the left rear bumber of my Nissan Titan is a 4" round "Peace through superior firepower sticker", and on the right rear there is a BRIGHT yellow sticker that says"
GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE!!
DRIVERS WITH CELLPHONES DO!!!

I found that sticker in a little hole in the wall fireworks store in Southern Missouri, and I just HAD to have it!! There's not many like that where you can have a pro-gun slogan and piss off all the rich liberal jerks on their cellphones in their Beamers at the same time. :D :D

At any rate, I live in Minnesota and have never been pulled over for anything.
 
I don't have any bumper stickers or pro-gun vanity plates on my truck.

I can't watch my truck 24/7, so why put something on it which may suggest there's possibly something inside worth stealing? I prefer to maintain a lower profile.

I also don't have political stickers on it . . . last election cycle, people with "W" stickers were having their vehicles vandalized. (People of the "liberal" political persuasion - at least the extreme left - often have no respect for private property.)
 
I stay away from NRA or any other types of gun related stickers strictly to not draw the attention of thieves. Kind of sad, but such is life these days.
 
I have never put a bumper sticker on any vehicle that I have owned. It is not because I don't have strong political view or I am afraid that they will make me a target for those who disagree with me, it is simply part of my personality. I don't even have a "Support Our Troops" sticker and my best friend just left for Iraq. I have seen some funny ones, and I enjoy reading other peoples' stickers when I am at a stop light, but I have never had a desire to put up my own.

P.S. I would like to meet the Christian who was converted by a "Jesus Saves" bumper sticker.:p
 
I prefer to stay off all kinds of radar, so I don't put anything that displays my opinions, politics or affinities on my vehicles.

I don't see anything wrong with those who want to display their proclivities, but I have also seen vehicles vandalized becuse they had the wrong political statement/support on their bumper, or with a broken window/torn open glove box along with an "Insured by Smith & Wesson" bumper sticker or decal. Scumbags, idiots, and cowards are everywhere, why extend an invitation? YMMV
 
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