How many of you open carry at home? & how many open carry with people visiting?

How many of you open carry at

  • Home?

    Votes: 64 36.6%

  • At home when you have friends over?

    Votes: 60 34.3%

  • You don't carry a gun at all

    Votes: 51 29.1%
  • Total voters
    175
"Concealed at home for the most part."
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That's me, too. When I'm at home, I always have a NAA revolver in my pocket. My close friends know it, and it's no big deal. I suppose I could strap on the Kydex holster and the Beretta 92F, but for in the house, I think that's overkill. The "mousegun" is enough.
 
I always open carry at home no matter if friends or family is over.I also carry when I go to my familys house but then it is cc.All of the people that come into my house are either family or very close friends that all know I carry all of the time & they don't care.The only time I don't carry in my house is when I'm taking a shower.
 
Since my TP22 lives in my front pants pocket I am armed as soon as I put my pants on in the morning. I often open carry in the house as once I put on my main carry I don't usually take it off until bed. If I have company over I do conceal with certain exceptions. Most of my friends know my carry habits and would be suprised if I didn't have a gun on me somewhere. Even my doctor asks what I am carrying when I go to his office. Of course he always carries too.
 
Dave:

I don't want to take a chance of a gun grab
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That makes sense to me.

If you were shopping in a store and a couple of bad guys were going to rob it, who do you think they would take out first? The guy they saw with a gun.
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It seems to me that the most likely reaction of a BG to spotting an armed citizen would be to either move on or wait for the GG to leave. These guys are mostly after easy money so why get into a firefight when they can just take their "business" elsewhere.
 
It seems to me that the most likely reaction of a BG to spotting an armed citizen would be to either move on or wait for the GG to leave. These guys are mostly after easy money so why get into a firefight when they can just take their "business" elsewhere.
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You are using your own sense of values, judgement and consequence to try and predict what a violent predatory criminal may do.. You cant evaluate it that way.
 
These guys are mostly after easy money so why get into a firefight when they can just take their "business" elsewhere.
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Maybe they just want your gun, and you look like easy pickin's, especially since they know what they are up against and whats coming next, and you dont.
 
In Vegas for me, after a while, I found it to be a little redundant, but, that was before I had enough gun's (4 to 7) to have access too within feet.

Of course my area is growing to the bad, but not worse than bad, YET!
 
I don't carry in the home, because violent crimes and home invasions in my town are non-existent. The day that changes (and sigh ... we all know it will) I will definitely begin carrying in my home.
 
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When I go out on my farm I am always carrying. When I come in I usually just leave it strapped on until I go to bed.
We live out in the middle of nowhere, Police response time to our valley is at least 45min, and that is if they happen to by nearby the interstate exit.
Wherever we are in our home there is a loaded firearm within one step away but out of sight. That and Bonnie, our 140lb. Rotty gives us reasonable peace of mind.

I have a lot of respect for Law Enforcement Officers, especialy our State Troopers, but they are not there to prevent crimes, just to react to them after they have already happened.
 
In a word, sometimes.

I generally don't carry around my house, as I am confident I can get to a gun fairly quickly. If I have gone out and carried (I don't always carry since it can be difficult at work) I usually just leave it on until I go to bed.

As for open carry, usually not. I do carry OWB often, and when I come home I won't make any effort to hide the gun, but it is usually concealed well enough by what I am already wearing; that is, I don't usually need my jacket to conceal.
 
I live in the sticks, so a paddle holster with a .45 is everyday wear outside. And I have a little .38 deringer in my pocket a lot of the time.
If I have company over, they probably came out to shoot on our little range, so no problem grilling steaks or dogs with the same .45 on. They are likely still wearing their pistol as well.
Inside the house the firearms are close at hand. My drive is over a quarter mile so we can hear anyone coming.
Arizona is an open carry state, I believe open carry is not just a right, but something that's needed. I open carry quite a bit and I've never yet read a real live instance where someone carrying openly was slaughtered in the typical internet "shoot me first" sceneario. Maybe those cases are out there, but my rights as a American citizen, in the state of Arizona, almost require me to exercise said rights.
So, I carry a .45 regularly (sometimes two), my Python often, and sometimes I even open carry my early 1960's Ruger single action Tactical Blackhawk Real Scarey Revolver.
But that's just me : )

JTMcC.
 
Simple:
Pants on = gun on.
Normally concealled, I don't own any OC holsters.
If I have a stranger coming in, IE bug guy, furniture delivery tonight, etc. I'll make sure the butt (of the gun) shows a bit.
 
IMHO open carry is not smart & I don't carry at home. With that I said I can obtain my weapon/s very quickly if need be.
 
Everyone I know knows I am LE if they visit they know I have a gun on so if it's cold hidden, summer exposed. If I don't know you, you aren't coming in so its a moot point.
 
I open carry at home almost always....

unless my daughter has a friend coming over. My daughter is 16 and very pro-gun, she goes to range with me all the time, but her 16 year old girl friends are typically very gun shy so I just throw on a loose T-shirt when I get her text that she has a friend coming over.
 
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