Yeah...It's Loaded...

[ST911]

True if you or I were open carrying but these ladies...they're treated differently and I believe more people would be willing to listen and accept open carry if more women did it.

Very true. Women who advocate for the 2A can be much more successful than their male counterparts, as they lack some of the real and perceived baggage men carry.

BTW, someone get Carrie some better sights.

I'd start with a better belt and holster for Carrie. Hard to say which one will fail first. That setup is more fashion than function. (Serpas on the other gals have to go, too.)

No surprises on their gun choices though. G19s and Sig 239s are leading choices with ladies.

Anyone else notice what appears to be a USMC sticker on the back of Carrie's car? Prior service, dependent spouse, etc?

[QuietShootr]

I disagree.

One of my favorite pictures is of my father and uncle when they were both around age 12 walking down the sidewalk with the rifles they recently purchased slung on their shoulders (1917 Enfield and 1903 Springfield respectively).

They would routinely open carry their rifles, sometimes with their fathers 1911 in a flap holster on their hip, through town to the outskirts where they would spend a good part of the day shooting tin cans.

It was considered the norm. And in the 1950s our gun rights were much more secure then they are now. And that is because if a person had a gun on their belt, nobody thought there was anything wrong or bad about that.

Once you get used to the idea that "good people have guns" then suddenly guns lose their "bad connotation." Right now the only guns most people see are on the news and associate them with the bad guys and the only other people who have them are the police who are "special status" to most people. And that is why a lot of people now think "only the police should have them" which would have been completely absurd in the days when even small children could sling rifles on the weekend and nobody thought anything of it.

This.

If those pesky blacks had stayed on the back of the bus like they should have, things would be a lot different.








<that's an analogy, I don't need to be banned for it....for those of you joining us from Rio Linda>

[QuietShootr]

As with assless chaps, there's a time and place for everything.

I really have nothing to add to this, I just wanted to quote it for posterity.

[skyugo]

Wow, it must be nice to have the right to defend yourself in public. I hope no one ever decides to attack me or my family in any place other than our home.



When is an appropriate time for assless chaps?


J

gay rights convention, or as with open carry of firearms, ladies can get away with it whenever

[SteyrAUG]

I'd start with a better belt and holster for Carrie. Hard to say which one will fail first. That setup is more fashion than function. (Serpas on the other gals have to go, too.)

Honestly, I've been using a Serpa for about 8 years now for daily carry, regular training and have had zero issues with it.

For me, it is the best option of all I have tried.

My brother carried a Serpa for two deployments with no issues. He got it after seeing mine and wanting to try it, after comparing it to other available holsters, he chose the Serpa.

[DaBears_85]

gay rights convention, or as with open carry of firearms, ladies can get away with it whenever

Oh, I was hoping there was some magical time of the day that I wasn't aware of yet.

[SteyrAUG]

When the OC "movement" begins to publicly bitch slap those morons that troll for a negative, or otherwise disagreeable LE response, I will view them with less cynicism, and unitl the "hey look at me" vibe diminishes, Ill have trouble digesting it.

Isn't that a bit like saying "I'll join and support the Republican party" if and when they stop having members of the KKK register Republican?

[M4arc]

I'd start with a better belt and holster for Carrie. Hard to say which one will fail first. That setup is more fashion than function. (Serpas on the other gals have to go, too.)

I kinda liked that belt. I've been looking for one all day...




Back to the boobs for a minute. If there's a gun and clevage involved I'm IN!

[Gutshot John]

There is both a deterrence factor and an inviting problems factor. There is no doubt they both exist and even LEOS have on occasion specifically been targeted for their weapons. I think the deference factor is greater simply because taking somebody for their gun is a big job and there are usually easier ways for criminals to get a gun with less risk to themselves. Obviously this requires some situational awareness for the armed individual, but so does driving your expensive car through the bad side of town.

I doubt very much that a criminal intent on getting a gun is going to approach someone directly and try and take it off them. Even still I'd bet that it's a lot easier than you think.

That said a smart criminal is going to pick a time and place of his choosing to initiate an attack. Broadcasting the fact that you have a firearm is kind of silly on a host of levels...especially when you don't even have a retention holster like the cops you mention.

And just because something might be a bad idea (for example: driving your expensive car through the bad side of town) doesn't mean you should lose your right to do so.

I must have missed where I said any such thing. No one said that anyone, not the article and least of all me, should lose their rights for doing so. I just questioned the wisdom of the idea.

As for waling around with a slung AR, all I can think of is pictures of Switzerland where people are on bikes, shopping in the grocery store and basically walking around with slung SIG rifles. Of course the Swiss don't view rifles as "somehow bad."

Hate to burst your bubble but those individuals are typically on reserve duty or heading to and from the range. They aren't just walking around on a daily basis with their rifles.

[SteyrAUG]

I doubt very much that a criminal intent on getting a gun is going to approach someone directly and try and take it off them. Even still I'd bet that it's a lot easier than you think.

That said a smart criminal is going to pick a time and place of his choosing to initiate an attack. Broadcasting the fact that you have a firearm is kind of silly on a host of levels.

Correct, that is usually how it happens when they take them from cops. So in both cases, and when driving a nice car in homietown, a little situational awareness is necessary. But it doesn't really change my original point that it is a valid option for various reasons.

I must have missed where I said any such thing.

You didn't and I didn't intend to suggest you did. I was merely recognizing that we don't currently enjoy that right in most states.

Hate to burst your bubble but those individuals are typically on reserve duty or heading to and from the range. They aren't just walking around on a daily basis with their rifles.

I understand that, and I've actually been the Switzerland a few times. My point wasn't to suggest it is like Israel where everyone has a slung 16, my point was simply that nobody completely freaks out when they see it. Kinda like when my Dad and his brother would walk through town on a given Saturday during the 50s when they were kids, with slung battle rifles on their shoulder and a 1911 on their hip.

It's not that every single businessman they encountered downtown on the way to their "shootin' spot" also had a slung rifle, they didn't. It was the fact that none of those businessmen downtown associated anything negative to their weapons and the only comments made were along the lines of "You boys gonna do some shooting?" And I'd much prefer that environment to one where every businessman reaches for his phone and calls 911.