NRA Stickers - Theft Deterrent or Theft Invitation?

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I do not put any stickers on my vehicle. I like it clean. I also think that it is an invitation to break in and look for a 'truck gun' or deface the property. r. I do have a sticker on the cashier's window in the front of my office as a deterrent. Insurance brokerage in a rough area of town. It has happened to clients of mine. I don't have confirmation that they were broken into because of the sticker but I can think of two occasions where an NRA sticker was present. I can think of one other incident where a customer's vehicle was vandalized in an airport parking lot because it has a Bush/Cheney sticker on it. They scratched political epithets on it so it was quite clea
 
In Austin, there was a wave of break-in sticky cars. Think about, you may to go into a location that bans handguns. Then you have a sign on your car about guns.

Now, you may say that you never go into such places but that's impossible. Many medical facilities in TX have such signs. So don't go to the Doc?
 
I no longer have such stickers, or anything politically inflammatory on my vehicles.

Last summer I got a lot of undesired attention over the small Oath Keeper sticker on my truck.
 
For nineteen years I have had an NRA sticker in the windshield and on the rear bumper. No one seems to take notice and if someone does they ask if I was in the USMC.
I leave the doors unlocked because unless it is raining the top is down.
 
I don't think it would be a deterrent at all. It might be an invitation. I don't put any decals on my vehicles giving a hint as to my hobbies, occupation, politics or religion.
 
Neither theft deterrent or theft invitation. Just a sticker. Most NRA members, if they carry will carry on their person and not just leave guns locked in the car. And, most thieves breaking into a car are looking for cash, not usually guns.
 
Most NRA stickers were put in place by people with their long expired initial membership.

As long as cartels are paying $1000 or more per gun, I'm keeping my ownership quiet.
No one knows but family.

But... No one knows about my tv or any other valuables.

My coworkers think I live in an empty shell with no modern wares.
 
I display nothing related to firearms, my profession, my religion, or my politics. They are all private matters; I choose when and with whom to discuss such things.
 
They can work both ways. It all depends on where you are and the thieves in that area. In my part of Virginia most people have guns and pay little attention to stickers like that. A good many people not only keep a handgun in their vehicle but until maybe the last 10-20 years they would also keep a rifle or shotgun in a visible rack in their truck (sometimes both). I know a guy who in the 1980s worked part time as a painter and was on a ladder painting the front of a house when someone reached into his truck and stole his 30-30 lever action rifle. This occurred on the next street over from behind my parents house. While people who know me know that I am a gun person I don't advertise it on my truck because when I travel who knows what kinds of thieves are there. The only stickers I have on my truck are one from Gander Mountain and one from Bass Masters. Hopefully they will not give a fisherman a second thought. So far it has worked.
 
Putting stickers on your car just makes it look tacky.

Now, if you get it decalled all out, and make it look like a racing car, that would be cool.
 
Neither theft deterrent or theft invitation. Just a sticker. Most NRA members, if they carry will carry on their person and not just leave guns locked in the car. And, most thieves breaking into a car are looking for cash, not usually guns.
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That depends. It was the case at the CHL instructor class in Austin, that the instructors had to leave their guns in the cars for the class. Those cars were specifically hit. We have had folks followed from matches and competition guns stolen while the owners were eating pancakes at a restaurant.
 
it sounds to me like the criminals/terrorists/politicians won this country if everyone is too worried to voice their hobbies/opinions/politics
 
Yes, because they stoop to slashing tires.
Breaking windows
Arson

Easier and way more convienient to not have a bumper sticker.
Some people really hate people like us.
 
No stickers on my vehicles that are remotely political. No vote for Hillary, Rand Paul or Bush.... no NRA. No protected by Smith & Wesson on my house.
 
"Maybe stickers and labels make you a target, maybe they don't."

We live in an age where a person smoking tobacco on a park bench can be accosted and berated publicly, cars with labels of any kind are vandalized, and bloggers are stalked and 'outed' by others who disagree with whatever it was they wrote. Lawyers drool at the thought of entering into evidence photographs of "Make My Day" signs and so-called journalists dig out copies of chat room posts regarding almost any topic to use in inflammatory articles.

I think folks who don't realize the traps they may be placing in their own path are not being objective about their security. We don't have rifle racks in our trucks anymore, for a good reason. Same with a gun cabinet in our living room. It's a different world out there and we need to recognize it.
 
I leave my car unadorned. Now the big steel ten drawer ammo chest in my garage has every sticker on it , but on the car I use for travel?
Not a chance.
 
If you are traveling thru NJ with out of state plates from one known to have CCW, plus gun stickers on your car? It's becoming a known issue to avoid that. You will be targeted and an extensive search can and will be conducted.

Whether that is happening in your home town is another matter entirely.

And whether there are those who will vandalize your car for having any sticker the public finds objectionable is another. It does happen - assess your risk.
 
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