Do you drive with a gun?

[noclue90]

I carry my CCW everywhere when legal and maybe possibly sometimes not legal. I don't normally keep a gun in the car unless on a long trip which I have a universal holster in the center console for a full size handgun with weapon light.

To those who don't have this mindset, that is totally fine and respectable. Not everyone is mentally prepared or just don't agree with the responsibility of carrying a weapon. If you've never been in that situation, that is fantastic! I hope to never use any weapon I own for self defense and it's all a waste of money. However, you don't buy insurance after you get in a wreck.

Don't trash the pro-gun guys/gals....odds are they'll be there to respond to a threat before the police are able to get to you.


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[Kimokona]

Yes, always !

Has saved me once at a rural campsite, when the perps realized it was there, they moved on.

 

[CoolMax]

G26 in the center console
I'd rather not, but I live in TX

 

[Wingsuit]

Tell that to the idiots walking around wearing safety pins or putting red light bulbs on their front porch lights.

I have found that if you make a chain out of paper clips, hook it on your belt loop, then run it down the inside of your pants and let it drag the ground, the CIA cannot hear what you are thinking.

hell yes I carry. As a retired LEO, it would be a moral and ethical failure to watch someone get hurt or killed have no means to intervene. Have a console vault, very handy.

 

[Inked]

I carry often when traveling, though crossing some state lines make that difficult to carry concealed. Around my small town, not too much. When I do, it's usually one of my Hk's of some hot flavor.

 

[Wingsuit]

what do you guys/gals do when you take your vehicle in for service? I took mine in to discount today during my lunch break. I just leave it in the car, while its not super obvious its there...its not completely out of sight. should I be removing it and carrying on me?
*I have a ccw so I can carry legally

Wow. I can't decide if this is serious or trolling. You leave a firearm in the car when it's in for service? I really wouldn't care if some ex convict service guy took your gat, but I seriously think you should be liable if he shoots someone with it after he takes it. I would strongly recommend the Console Vault for anyone who leaves a firearm, wallet, phone or anything else of value in an unattended vehicle. Besides, if it ain't on you, you can't use it to defend yourself.

 

[GUNRUNNR]

Open and suppressed. Everywhere.

 

[Bigrupp]

Open and suppressed. Everywhere.

Perfect, but you should really have it turned towards you a little. For ergonomics when reaching for it.

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[noclue90]

Open and suppressed. Everywhere.

You're begging someone to break into your vehicle with that set up...


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[Wingsuit]

Just curious, are holsters available to fit that thing?

 

[5ontheFloor]

Open and suppressed. Everywhere.

Never has a cupholder been so well utilized! BA

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[Bigrupp]

You're begging someone to break into your vehicle with that set up...


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Really? Do you honestly think he would walk away from his vehicle and leave that there? Not sure if you're serious.....

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[leftyguns21]

Wow. I can't decide if this is serious or trolling. You leave a firearm in the car when it's in for service? I really wouldn't care if some ex convict service guy took your gat, but I seriously think you should be liable if he shoots someone with it after he takes it. I would strongly recommend the Console Vault for anyone who leaves a firearm, wallet, phone or anything else of value in an unattended vehicle. Besides, if it ain't on you, you can't use it to defend yourself.

the fact you are referring to it as a 'gat' tells me all i need to know about taking advice from you.
nice profiling, apprently only ex convicts service cars.
why on earth would i be liable if someone used my gun to shoot someone.

they only sensible thing in your post is mentioning a vault.

 

[houlds]

the fact you are referring to it as a 'gat' tells me all i need to know about taking advice from you.
nice profiling, apprently only ex convicts service cars.
why on earth would i be liable if someone used my gun to shoot someone.

they only sensible thing in your post is mentioning a vault.

Except those vaults are legit useless and can be opened with a butterknife or paper clip. It's just there so you feel good.

 

[Wingsuit]

the fact you are referring to it as a 'gat' tells me all i need to know about taking advice from you.
nice profiling, apprently only ex convicts service cars.
why on earth would i be liable if someone used my gun to shoot someone.

they only sensible thing in your post is mentioning a vault.

Actually, I know a guy who sold his auto repair shops because he got tired of dealing with ex con employees. If you think all those shop guys are honest, ask the guy who stole stuff out of my console in Seattle when I had my former car in for service. And, in my 35 years in federal law enforcement, I did learn a few things. One was never to leave a firearm unsecured. If you had a law degree, or in your case, a GED, you might know that you in fact could be liable in such an instance.

Why don't you come on over and open my console vault with a toothpick, or paper clip, or whatever you need to do it with. A grinder, maybe,if you had a couple hours. Why don't you start a consulting business, giving advice, you are brilliant.

 

[Bigrupp]

After 35 years in law enforcement you should know just how easy it is to pick a lock with a paper clip. And even easier with the most basic lock pick kits that anyone can buy online. Even the so called "secure" locks are child's play for someone who's got a little practice. It really is scary to know that "locking" up your valuables doesn't mean Jack Schlitt. On a positive note, most of the idiots that will be rifling through center consoles are too stupid to do any of that.
Would NEVER leave an unsecured firearm in a vehicle though. That's craziness.

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[DZNUTS]

Would NEVER leave an unsecured firearm in a vehicle though. That's craziness.

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Hell I don't evens leave my firearms fully assembled in the same location in my house. We don't have children yet and no gun safe. We store my Sig 226 and my wife's Sig Pro slides in one location of the house and the frames on the opposite side of the house. Only my Glock 23 remains fully assembled and loaded (in my concealed carry holster)



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[Dorobuta]

I don't mean to single you out but this was a point I wanted to bring to the table. What if the situtaion arose where Jane Doe with a gun was overpowered by a perp and he turned it on her. Now the gun intended to protect her is endangering her. Would it not be better to just not have a gun in the equation to begin with? I doesn't have to be the situation above, it's just the whole idea of being overpowered and have your own gun turned on you.

Personally I don't judge anyone who drives with a gun, I don't because I'm fortunate to live in an really safe rural community but I could see the need more in the city.

Honestly tho, i'm slightly alarmed at the amount of people who do, I really hope there's a lot police officer on this forum but either way I'll think twice about cutting anyone off when if take a trip into the states :lol:

If you are going to be overpowered, you're dead or worse anyway. If someone means you harm, they will do you harm.

A deadly force situation is in existence for you to be thinking about bringing out a gun. So, even if you don't have a gun, it's still a deadly force situation and you are in trouble.

If you are in contact distance, i.e. close enough for them to overpower you, you are way behind the curve. This may be unavoidable, i.e. you were ambushed. But generally speaking you don't allow them to get that close to you.

Also, if the situation warrants the use of deadly force (Know your local laws), then, and only then does the pistol / rifle come out. At this point they either comply at a safe distance or get shot because they are a threat.

You don't pull a gun to scare someone, you don't pull a gun because it makes you feel better, you pull a gun because you are in a situation where deadly force is warranted. You are going to stop a threat.

I suspect a lot of people would have a completely different understanding of what having a CCW means, if they were to take a class - even if they never intend to use the CCW.

 

[leftyguns21]

Actually, I know a guy who sold his auto repair shops because he got tired of dealing with ex con employees. If you think all those shop guys are honest, ask the guy who stole stuff out of my console in Seattle when I had my former car in for service. And, in my 35 years in federal law enforcement, I did learn a few things. One was never to leave a firearm unsecured. If you had a law degree, or in your case, a GED, you might know that you in fact could be liable in such an instance.

Why don't you come on over and open my console vault with a toothpick, or paper clip, or whatever you need to do it with. A grinder, maybe,if you had a couple hours. Why don't you start a consulting business, giving advice, you are brilliant.

35 years in law enforcement and you call it a gat? was this the hood law enforcement. I know several law enforcement members and if I ever called it a gat in front of them they would cringe.
I am guessing you get your cars serviced the same place you learned ebonix and that's your problem.

for the record, I never keep a magazine, oh sorry you probably refer to it as a "clip", in the firearm and never have a round chambered or "one in the hole". The magazine is in a separate location from my firearm and even more hidden.

 

[Dorobuta]

the fact you are referring to it as a 'gat' tells me all i need to know about taking advice from you.
nice profiling, apprently only ex convicts service cars.
why on earth would i be liable if someone used my gun to shoot someone.

they only sensible thing in your post is mentioning a vault.

Check your local laws. You could be held liable because it was an obvious and foreseeable act that someone would want to steal your gun from your vehicle if stored in such a manner unattended.

as far as the rest, no comment.