Plan how you carry depending on that day's activities. Don't be stupid like me.

[scott_see]

.... One may wonder though - if your wife didn't know you carried, did she even know you owned a gun? That's pretty damn amazing you could keep it from her for months, let alone years. You should farm yourself out to the DNC as a security specialist, because they can't seem to keep secrets nearly as well, and could use some tips Good luck.

My father was an amateur magician and I grew up watching slight of hand since I was in diapers. I've seen some of the best coin and card sleight of hand magicians in the world. Pretty freakin' amazing when you see it close up.

At night, my gun comes out of IWB and goes into the bedside table in as I'm putting my watch and USB drive I wear around my neck in the same bedside table. In the morning, as far as she knows, I'm just fetching my watch and usb drive. I'm always between her and the line-of-sight of the gun. I've been doing that for years, and she's never caught on.

 

[beees]

Several years ago a man & wife from Seattle on a full dress Harley stopped @ M D's in Prosser and a patron saw his open carry ~ told the mgr who called the PD . They took his gun/gave him a ticket. He had to go to court [400 miles roundtrip] to get his gun back from the cops. I believe this was on NWF back then

 

[wired]

I saw two people open carrying today. No one cared.

 

[scott_see]

I hope if it happens it isn't too messy for you, and you get over it fairly quick.

Thanks, I appreciate that.

My brother laughs at me when I talk about, "quick and easy." His divorce took 1-1/2 year and he said that was much shorter than many. It nearly ran him into the ground. The lawyers made off like bandits, of course.

 

[Caveman Jim]

In WA, you're most definitely allowed to open carry. I don't recommend it, for so many reasons, but it shouldn't get you in trouble. Some guy walked right past a school as kids were being let out and he was open carrying. That made the paper, but he wasn't charged.

Agreed, only in the big liberal populations do people get chastised for exercising their rights.

 

[scott_see]

...may I recommend for your next go-round that you be forward about firearms and teach your potential partners in the use and care of them....

No doubt about that. Were I to do it all over, she'd be a gun toting, devout Buddhist. (Less likelihood of anger issues.)

 

[P7M13]

No doubt about that. Were I to do it all over, she'd be a gun toting, devout Buddhist. (Less likelihood of anger issues.)

Buwhawhawhawha! Ex #1 was Buddhist. One of the angriest people I have ever met. She's 60% of the reason why current wife will be Ex #2 (by my wife's own estimation) - 30% because of my travel schedule and 10% because I'm an A-hole.

 

[scott_see]

Buwhawhawhawha! Ex #1 was Buddhist. One of the angriest people I have ever met. ....

Wow, that sucks. It's not supposed to be that way. I'd like to think she's an exception. Just goes to show a label and a disposition are not one and the same.

 

[partsed]

Sometimes it takes a life threatening experience (unfortunately) to get someone to change their minds on something like carrying a gun or self defense aid (pepper spray). Not proposing that you fabricate one either, but it took someone who tailgated my wife almost all the way home (in the dark, on a winding road with not much traffic) to see that there are bad people out there who want to hurt you. Maybe then and only then will she (your wife) see that it might be prudent for her to have something she could use to defend herself.

 

[P7M13]

Wow, that sucks. It's not supposed to be that way. I'd like to think she's an exception. Just goes to show a label and a disposition are not one and the same.

Go see a psychiatrist, psychologist, or therapist, and you will discover that most of them are nuts. My armchair thinking: Westerners are attracted to Buddhism because of their attachment and anger. Mental health practitioners because they want to understand their own pathology.

 

[scott_see]

Sometimes it takes a life threatening experience (unfortunately) to get someone to change their minds on something like carrying a gun or self defense aid (pepper spray). Not proposing that you fabricate one either, but it took someone who tailgated my wife almost all the way home (in the dark, on a winding road with not much traffic) to see that there are bad people out there who want to hurt you. Maybe then and only then will she (your wife) see that it might be prudent for her to have something she could use to defend herself.

You're absolutely right. I've read books on why people believe what they do, and you've hit the nail right on the head. Generally, two things change people's minds. A profound life event. Or a very powerful role model can change someone's mind. Other than that... wait, what did I just read recently... great quote. "Arguing with someone who isn't thinking is kind of like feeding food to a dead person."

 

[scott_see]

Found it, I was close... A quote from The American Crisis
"To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture." Thomas Paine

He is one smart dude.

 

[partsed]

I've told both my wife and youngest son that if anyone pulls that "follows you home, tailgating, flashing their lights at you" crap to call me and I will intercept them. Youngest one did that one night coming home from work in Keizer, they followed him all the way into Silverton and I was ready in my truck to intercept them if they got any further than our set boundary. Nothing ever came of it to which I am thankful.

 

[Alex V]

I'm still learning my way around this carry business. Haven't had any issues yet, but I'm a bigger guy myself and while my belly represent the failed aspirations of many a New Year's resolutions, concealing ones insecurities kind of lends itself to concealing a firearm.

 

[TinyCrumb]

Wow, this thread delivered. What in the actual F*** is going on here.

How in the world is it possible to CC with a wife who's against it. My wife practically tackles me when she undresses me. How the heck would you hide that? Do you just talk about when you're going to have sex, plan it on a calendar, and then go hide your gun first?

This is mind boggling.

 

[wired]

People build lifestyles that don't make any sense at all and they are still able to rationalize it to themselves.

 

[Koda]

There are many reasons someone could find themselves married to a spouse that is anti-gun. Im not going to critisize that or anything they have to do to exercise their constitutional right und those conditions...

 

[DirtyBird]

It wouldn't help in the OP's position, but I've rocked a "safepacker" from The Wilderness, in a variety of places that don't permit, or encourage, CCW. It just looks like a CD case or something, and doesn't seem to catch anyone's attention. Put a strap on it, and you've got yourself a murse.

The other day I noticed a pair of my jeans are pretty faded, right over the pocket where I carry my j-frame in a pocket holster. Now, I have a revolver-shaped mark on my pants! I don't know if anyone but another shooter would recognize it though.

All of which is a long way of saying, if you see me, feel free to talk to me about my pants.

 

[caarecengi]

I was made once at Walmart. I was shopping with my wife and kids when an old lady asked me to get something for her off the top shelf. (I'm 6'3") I reached up to grab her the bread she wanted and she spotted my gun. She saw my beretta and soiled her depends I'm sure. She asked why I was carrying a gun, and I said the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, or you can wait till he runs out of ammo and hope he doesn't shoot you or your family. Needless to say I was met by police at the exit and she was there to point me out. The officers were cordial, never threatening and even explained to her that I was within the law. She started screaming and complaining. This a-hole old lady started cursing like a sailor. Haha. I even got accused of voting for trump!! Stupid lady... haha I wrote in Cruz.
My solution to the problem, maybe we need to ban motorized carts, and shelves that are higher than 4 feet high so that these assault snowflakes can reach the top shelves.
So much for helping an old lady.

What a bubblegum - - seriously....
I was about 18 yrs old (this was 1975), driving my dad's Buick, hot-dogging it around midnight. I took a corner too fast and knocked a pine tree to a 45-degree angle. I was about half-mile from home so I started the car and limped it home.

45 minutes later the cops showed up - they informed my parents that (this is funny) they retrieved tree bark and splinters from the front bumper/grill area to match against the pine tree (are you bubbleguming kidding me here?).

They administered a sobriety test (I passed) but explained that because it was public property, I was being cited for hit-and-run (on a tree). That was indignant enough, but in the back seat of one of the cruisers was this middle-aged bubblegum, who got out, pointed to me and said, "That's him - that's the guy that was driving....".

Now I never use the monosyllabic 'c' word for a female of species (not even Hillary), but I couldn't believe this woman went through all that trouble to report me. Note - - the car had personalized vanity plates, so I presume that's how they found me so fast.

 

[caarecengi]

I recall that event in the news about a year ago where somebody spotted a holster in a parking lot, followed the armed citizen into Walmart, tackled him and started screaming for someone to call 911. The guy who was assaulted was minding his own business, threatened no one, and had his CHL. Personally, I don't need some vindictive Kate Brown fan, or a well-intentioned dimwit, to cause that sort of confusion and inconvenience in my life.

Some dude tackles me like that, he's getting the butt end in this face after I poke him in the eyes