UtopiaTexasG19
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I've carried for over 35 years and only my wife knows that I do. IMHO if you carry properly no one can give you a problem because they don't know that you do carry.
Ulster County has gone to an ID card style permit, it's actually 2 cards 1 is the permit and the second card is a list of guns on the permit. Add a new handgun, get a new card. Check with your local Pistol Permit Dept. to find out if you can keep your permit if you move out of state, last I heard Ulster was the only county left that allowed it you just need to change your address. In response to your question, my wife used to ask me why I thought I needed to carry until I started pointing out ex-cons and gang bangers to her when we were out and about, she doesn't ask any more.The permits are a joke too they're printed on like special paper and when you get a pistol put on it they use a typewriter and type it onto the permit.
. Remember Catch-22 ? When it is okay to not be okay, then you are okay. Why does your friend have a problem with you carrying, and why do you have a problem with your friends problem ?over paranoid
The mistake was telling your friend that you carry. No one needs to know that. It's none of their business.
I live in a small city with a population of around 14,000. For such a small city it still has its share of crime and we are only 70 miles south of Buffalo and get a lot of thugs that come down here from there. My friend, who also has a pistol permit and owns a glock 19 and a 22, has never carried the entire ten years I've known him. I got my permit last Sept and got my pistol Jan 9th and have been carrying on a regular basis since then, hence a big reason why I bought a small compact 380 as my first pistol. He gives me crap and says it's ridiculous to carry in this small city and uncalled for and that basically I am being over paranoid and there's no point to carry unless I go somewhere where it's called for. I've already told him the whole "I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it" and he basically just kind of shakes his head and laughs. Any of you guys ever deal with this grief or anything? Do you have any friends that ever do this to you? Quite honestly the chances of me ever needing my gun are slim, which I am happy about, but I am not HURTING OR BOTHERING anything or anyone by carrying it when nobody even knows, ya know what I mean?