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Another reason to not even let people know you're into guns:

I got laid off yesterday. I was escorted off the premises by DPD, as well as local building security. That was a lot of fun. I guess they were afraid i'd shoot up the place or something.

He's a lot less nervous about guns; mostly I think because he saw how paranoid and careful everyone at the range was with them.

I dunno if he's fully converted yet, but he's on his way.
Around the office, it seems to be an "open secret" that i'm the gun guy, and I think he's more comfortable with it now.

BobCat wrote:nitrogen,

Just out of curiosity, did you tell them that? When someone said they "had" you, and you must have a gun stashed somewhere, did you point out that you would not shoot someone to protect the loudmouth?

I decided not to say anything, and here's why:
our company got acquired a while ago. The company that acquired us has a clause in their policy stating that "dangerous, illegal weapons are strictly prohibited on company property."
Since my weapon is not illegal, I carry, but do so quietly. I decided then to never speak about the fact that I carry for ANY reason. The entire current office staff is pro-gun, including my newly-converted boss, so I'm not too worried about freaking somebody out, but it's just a habit I feel I need to be in while at work.

Just today, we were discussing the Texas legislature's tax revamping. Being a subject i'm not that familliar with, I asked my other coworkers about. My boss made a comment to the effect of, "The problem is all the liberals. Sorry if that offends you, but thats how I feel". The "Loudmouth" said, "He can't be a democrat, he carries a gun!"

If I say something to him, it'll confirm the fact that I carry. The loudmouth can then say, "He told me he carries" and it could come back to bite me.

I'll let the loudmouth do and say whatever he wants, and I don't feel the need to correct him. People like that can get themselves, and others, in trouble. Like the old saying goes, "Don't write checks your body can't cash." If he feels like floating checks, that's his business.

It's working with a bunch of loutmouthed "Rednecks" that makes me carry at work. Not that i'm afraid of them, but I'm afraid of the crap that they might get me into.

Take the above example. The loudmouth could have gotten all four of us killed. When people say, "The office should be a safe place, you don't need to carry there!" I can point to incidents like the one I described above as proof that that is not always the case.

As the user "Longtooth" has in his sig, "Carry 24/7 or guess right." I take that to heart, and will carry wherever I LEGALLY can.

And yes, I over-analyze everything. Its one of the curses of being Jewish

Yet another reason to keep it to yourself:
It's pretty well known to my coworkers that I'm pro-gun. I've got some political cartoons up around my work area, as well as an NRA poster.
I've never discussed carrying, or showed anyone my carry gun, but I guess they just assume I carry.

We're going out to lunch last Friday. There's 4 of us in one car (not mine, i'm not driving btw). Someone cuts us off in the middle of the parking lot. The driver opens his window and begins yelling some creative obscenities at the driver in front of us. The driver in front of us sticks his middle finger out the window, and it ends there.

The following conversation ensued afterward:
Passenger: "Chill out! Just let that guy be! you never know what he'll do! He might have a gun and shoot us!"
Driver: "Yeah, but we've got [Nitrogen] with us, i'm sure he's got a gun stashed away somewhere!"

Lovely. So now my coworkers think i'm Rambo; and will help them shoot our way out of trouble.

if that guy had come out with a gun, i'd have been the first out of the door running in the opposite direction if possible.

stevie_d_64 wrote:
And for him to grumble??? I hope if you're not at that company anymore, and you left on your own terms...Not just because of the "gun" thing, but just that it doesn't appear to be condusive to your personality and personal beliefs, which I figure you are way above the curve at that place...

I still work there. I'm slowly working on the boss. I'm taking him and his daughter shooting this week, actually. I think there's a gun owner in him just waiting to come out, once he learns that if he touches one, he won't automatically become an evil mass murderer, and the gun won't blow up in his hands or anything.

EDIT: Since I grew up an Anti, from an anti family, I have a lot of experience with them. I've found most Anti's arent staunchly anti-gun, they are just ignorant, and a little afraid of guns. Once they get some exposure, 95% of the time their attitudes do a 180. I know mine did about 10 years ago, when I first was exposed to a real, live, gun and shot it for the first time.

crankshaftkid wrote:

nitrogen wrote:+1.
Now fast forward to last week. Over the weekend, someone he had fired broke into the office and trashed it. The boss asks me, "Can you bring your gun in in case he comes back to start something?"
"Sorry, I can't legally. Don't have my CHL."

He grumbled about it.

Do you have to have a CHL to carry on private property if you are asked to carry on someone's property? I know you can carry on your own property and not even have it concealed and without having a CHL too.

My understanding is that if you have permission of whoever "controlls" the property, you're ok. For me it was more of an excuse to tell him to go to H-E-Double Hockey Sticks.

+1.

One of my coworkers went banannas because I had an empty box of ammo on my desk with screws and pushpins and paperclips and the like in it.

He saw it and went completely nonlinear.

"OH MY [Nitrogen's] GOT BULLETS HE MUST HAVE GUNS OH MY GOD HE COULD SHOOT US ALL !!! $#@^%@#%#$%#@$%"

Unlucklly, the boss is also an Anti. I told him I had no bullets in the box, and I wasn't carrying a gun with me or anything. (I wasn't because the state of Texas hasn't given me my CHL yet. )

Now fast forward to last week. Over the weekend, someone he had fired broke into the office and trashed it. The boss asks me, "Can you bring your gun in in case he comes back to start something?"
"Sorry, I can't legally. Don't have my CHL."

He grumbled about it.

My workplace does not have any firearms policy written in the policy manual. When I DO get my CHL, I'll probably carry, but absolutely don't let anyone know you carry, unless you'd pull the trigger (and go through the inevitable civil suit) to save their life. That's my rule, at least.

(EDIT: Fix some english)