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Re: CHL concealed but not secret
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 1:27 pm
by PRO
Aside from this forum, only two people even know I applied for a CHL or know I’ve received it. Although I am very proud to have received it and I would love to shout it from the roof tops, I’m not going to let anyone know I’m armed. I don’t even want to put my NRA / TSRA stickers on my vehicle just in case someone with road rage might call 911 and say I pointed a weapon at them. Paranoid? Probably, but for me and my life, the weapon is a secret.
Re: CHL concealed but not secret
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 3:08 pm
by surprise_i'm_armed
Each of us on the board has a particular set of employers/
friends/relatives/neighbors. I think it's great that some of
your bosses carry and feel fine with you carrying.
My CHL is pretty much a secret. There are only a handful of
people that know I have a CHL and carry 24/7, where legal.
I would like to be more "out there" with more folks so that I
too could be an ambassador, but my employer doesn't allow
carry (I do all the time anyway!) and I carry at church too,
which would probably 30.06 itself if my gun became common
knowledge.
There is one gal I know at church who has her CHL and has
.38 snubbies in most rooms of her house. She knows I have
my CHL and carry at church. She feels it's "not right" to carry
at church, although I have told her a few times she needs to
slip one of those Smiths into her purse.
She is very open about having a CHL. She hasn't outed me to others, but
I worried about it for a while.
This forum is great because all of us who want to keep mum about
our CHL's and guns can come here and chat about anything.
I like to keep the "surprise" in "surprise_i'm_armed." :-)
SIA
Re: CHL concealed but not secret
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 3:23 pm
by PRO
surprise_i'm_armed wrote:
She feels it's "not right" to carry at church,
I don't understand "it's not right to carry at church."
What comes to my mind about that would also make it not right to have a lightning rod on the church.
Re: CHL concealed but not secret
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 4:30 pm
by Oldgringo
PRO wrote:surprise_i'm_armed wrote:
She feels it's "not right" to carry at church,
I don't understand "it's not right to carry at church."
What comes to my mind about that would also make it not right to have a lightning rod on the church.
...or as someone asked in another thread somewhere, "...why do you lock up your vehicle in the church parking lot..."?
Re: CHL concealed but not secret
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 4:56 pm
by WildBill
Oldgringo wrote:...or as someone asked in another thread somewhere, "...why do you lock up your vehicle in the church parking lot..."?
So the kids can't get out.
Re: CHL concealed but not secret
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 6:07 pm
by davidtx
WildBill wrote:Oldgringo wrote:...or as someone asked in another thread somewhere, "...why do you lock up your vehicle in the church parking lot..."?
So the kids can't get out.
So nobody will steal my dogs.
Re: CHL concealed but not secret
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 7:06 pm
by dgindrup
I dont think I would wear a shirt that says " I have my CHL" and I wouldnt walk up to a complete stranger and tell them im carrying, but I also help teach CHL classes and solicate friends and associates to take the class as well.. in doing so, there is little question as to my status.