First day carry today.

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Good first day. Welcome to the forum.

My wife knew the first time I carried after getting my license, but not the first time I carried in church after I got an IWB holster. It's cool when someone that knows you so well can't tell.
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Congrats!
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Congrats!!
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Congrats and welcome to the forum. My wife no longer asks if I'm carrying when we are out. She just wonders which one and where I am carrying.
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Calm, cool, and collected. That's the way you should be. That said it did take me a while to reach that point....

Congratulations and welcome to the forum!

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I got a 709 Slim about two months ago :thumbs2: I really like this gun; had some issues breaking it in (mainly my fault for not cleaning the grease well enough) but has been flawless after that. I have a FoxX IWB hybrid holster and it's very comfortable to wear.
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C-dub wrote:Good first day. Welcome to the forum.

My wife knew the first time I carried after getting my license, but not the first time I carried in church after I got an IWB holster. It's cool when someone that knows you so well can't tell.
Not sure if worth mentioning this, or not - but it may be helpful to someone else. "... first time I carried in church....." where of course, you're not legally allowed to carry.
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AndyChrist wrote:
C-dub wrote:Good first day. Welcome to the forum.

My wife knew the first time I carried after getting my license, but not the first time I carried in church after I got an IWB holster. It's cool when someone that knows you so well can't tell.
Not sure if worth mentioning this, or not - but it may be helpful to someone else. "... first time I carried in church....." where of course, you're not legally allowed to carry.
:headscratch . . . you can LEGALLY carry in a church unless it is 30.06 posted.
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:headscratch . . . you can LEGALLY carry in a church unless it is 30.06 posted.[/quote]

You are correct. I came back to delete my post and apologize. I was taught in CHL that you CANNOT carry in a church - just did a little research after seeing a couple posts here on the topic and it turns out you can - provided there is no 30.06 posted. Apparently they edited the statute at the end. I'm a little surprised my instructor was so forceful about a law that doesn't exist.
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No need to apologize. There is a lot of confusion about carrying in a church.

I don't know if the law changed so fast after I received my CHL back in the mid 90's or I just found this Forum and a great instructor (Crossfire - one of our moderators), but I have learned a lot just from reading the Forum.

By the way Welcome to the Forum. :tiphat:
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