Do you feel naked when you can't carry while traveling?

[herenow1]

I rarely carry a gun, but the times I really want to is when I can't, like when I'm flying out of state. Yes I know that crime can happen everywhere but I just don't feel the need to carry where I live as the places I go aren't considered shady or crime ridden areas. I went to las vegas last month on a girls trip. I got in earlier than my other friends and stayed at a hotel by myself. I stayed at circus circus which was like the ghetto to me. My room wasn't even inside the hotel but some RV/hotel extension away from the main hotel, and it was a good distance away.There were a bunch of guys out that were trying to get my attention in different areas, and a few looked like they were going to approach me. I just kept walking fast and did not make eye contact. I just kept thinking the whole time that I wish I had a gun, and how it sucks that the rare time I can carry, I couldn't.

 

[TurtleDude]

yeah and in some areas you cannot have a gun. I was in DC for three weeks right after the start of the GHWB version of the gulf war and there was no way to legally or even somewhat legally pack a gun due to the idiotic gun laws. SO I had a custom knife maker I know rig me up a nice little sticker that hung on the back of my tie!!

in some places where I travel, I will go to a sports shop and buy a good quality folding knife and if I am not checking baggage, mail it to myself when I leave or donate it to someone I was working with or visiting. I also have a nice collection of non-metallic stuff that works in a pinch and the infamous "Guardfather" which looks like a basic pen but has a case hardened steel spike in it

 

[polisciguy]

I rarely carry a gun, but the times I really want to is when I can't, like when I'm flying out of state. Yes I know that crime can happen everywhere but I just don't feel the need to carry where I live as the places I go aren't considered shady or crime ridden areas. I went to las vegas last month on a girls trip. I got in earlier than my other friends and stayed at a hotel by myself. I stayed at circus circus which was like the ghetto to me. My room wasn't even inside the hotel but some RV/hotel extension away from the main hotel, and it was a good distance away.There were a bunch of guys out that were trying to get my attention in different areas, and a few looked like they were going to approach me. I just kept walking fast and did not make eye contact. I just kept thinking the whole time that I wish I had a gun, and how it sucks that the rare time I can carry, I couldn't.

Definitely. I don't normally like to carry when I travel unless I am really comfortable with my knowledge of the laws of a given state/area. But once you do it for so long, you do feel naked without it.

 

[Lutherf]

Not so much naked but it's noticeable. I do pack at least one knife and a baton when traveling to NY or other gun grabber state.

 

[TurtleDude]

Not so much naked but it's noticeable. I do pack at least one knife and a baton when traveling to NY or other gun grabber state.

Jim Keating's COMTECH stingers are good low profile tools for such areas. You can often carry them on a plane and they go through metal detectors since they are plastic

 

[ttwtt78640]

Yes. Especially when traveling by motorcycle alone as you lack even the option to lock yourself within the cage of your car. I have only needed to use my gun once, but it does offer a certain peace (piece?) of mind, and I am no longer as young and physically able as I used to be. To no longer have the legal option to travel while carrying a gun, when it is still alleged to be a constitutional right, is well beyond simply disturbing. As more liberals try to assure us that it is not dangerous to be traveling unarmed, by pointing to all manner of statistics, many of us still feel that it is better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.

 

[cpgrad08]

I feel naked at work, since I can't carry when on the clock.

 

[Guy Incognito]

There were a bunch of guys out that were trying to get my attention in different areas, and a few looked like they were going to approach me. I just kept walking fast and did not make eye contact. I just kept thinking the whole time that I wish I had a gun, and how it sucks that the rare time I can carry, I couldn't.

You are looking at this all wrong, friend.

There should be no law to prohibit your right to own and use a gun, but it looks like you didn't need a gun. Congratulations on defending yourself in a sane and morally upright way! You should be proud!

Unjust laws aside, you should take away from this experience that you can protect yourself far better with avoidance than with a deadly weapon.

 

[GottaGo]

Since I don't travel by air much, there is always a gun somewhere in the vehicle. In states that frown on that, I might not have it with in easy reach at all moments, but it is if I'm outside the vehicle.

Since I don't drink, don't usually *cough* drive too much over the speed limit, my chances of being pulled over are slim. I rather have it with me and not need it, then not have and need it.

 

[TurtleDude]

You are looking at this all wrong, friend.

There should be no law to prohibit your right to own and use a gun, but it looks like you didn't need a gun. Congratulations on defending yourself in a sane and morally upright way! You should be proud!

Unjust laws aside, you should take away from this experience that you can protect yourself far better with avoidance than with a deadly weapon.

sadly most honest people, especially the elderly and women cannot outrun young street thugs and if you are damned to living in a bad neighborhood, you cannot avoid assholes. so while avoidance is a good idea (like don't go into Ghettos if you don't have to) its not always possible

 

[herenow1]

Next time I will do better research when booking a hotel. The travel agent said it had 3.5 stars and a nice hotel. Sure, the rooms AT the hotel may have been nice, but the one that was located far and away behind it was not. I only got about 3 hrs of sleep that night b/c the guests on both sides were loud. I didn't even feel safe in my room, especially since it was on the first floor and the window was facing the parking lot. I would have been less scared the entire night if I had a gun.

I like the suggestion turtle made about mailing a knife to yourself. Never thought about that. Then again I only travel alone once a yr.

 

[Texmex]

Living in Texas I always carry a gun with me. If I can't carry my gun I don't go to the state. If a certain state doesn't allow people to be armed I don't want to visit that state.

 

[American]

Yes. Especially when traveling by motorcycle alone as you lack even the option to lock yourself within the cage of your car. I have only needed to use my gun once, but it does offer a certain peace (piece?) of mind, and I am no longer as young and physically able as I used to be. To no longer have the legal option to travel while carrying a gun, when it is still alleged to be a constitutional right, is well beyond simply disturbing. As more liberals try to assure us that it is not dangerous to be traveling unarmed, by pointing to all manner of statistics, many of us still feel that it is better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.

Strange that an amendment of the federal constitution is not considered violated by a law that prohibits you from keeping and bearing arms when on interstate travel by airplane. I suppose that the answer would be that you can drive. :roll:

 

[ttwtt78640]

Strange that an amendment of the federal constitution is not considered violated by a law that prohibits you from keeping and bearing arms when on interstate travel by airplane. I suppose that the answer would be that you can drive. :roll:

Try to comply with the "reasonable restrictions" placed on carrying a handgun while traveling by motorcycle.

 

[American]

Try to comply with the "reasonable restrictions" placed on carrying a handgun while traveling by motorcycle.

Lock it in a box unloaded?

 

[ttwtt78640]

Lock it in a box unloaded?

How is that "inaccessable to the vehicle operator"?

Notwithstanding any other provision of any law or any rule or regulation of a State or any political subdivision thereof, any person who is not otherwise prohibited by this chapter from transporting, shipping, or receiving a firearm shall be entitled to transport a firearm for any lawful purpose from any place where he may lawfully possess and carry such firearm to any other place where he may lawfully possess and carry such firearm if, during such transportation the firearm is unloaded, and neither the firearm nor any ammunition being transported is readily accessible or is directly accessible from the passenger compartment of such transporting vehicle.

 

[Texmex]

Try to comply with the "reasonable restrictions" placed on carrying a handgun while traveling by motorcycle.

Thank God for the Ruger LCP and a good wallet holster.

 

[Surtr]

I have family in California, but that doesn't keep me from having a weapon nearby when I'm there. It just happens to not be a firearm, unless I'm at the family Orchard. There I have access to quite a few rifles and pistols.

 

[longview]

Sometimes when I go to remote places, I be sure to carry a signaling device.
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