Steelers252006
New member
Recently applied for my CCW license, recently purchased my CCW weapon, Glock 27. Been practicing with it around the house to get familiar and comfortable with the firearm and have taken it to the range, recently started carrying it in my vehicle.
Me and my wife went to Best Buy earlier today, were carrying several tvs back to my truck. I parked on the far side of the parking lot, and it was starting to get a little dark. I was thinking to myself we need to hurry and load the car for obvious reasons and said so to my wife when we got to the truck. Then we noticed two people, man and a woman, walking toward us, could tell it wasn't right. My wife asked me did I have the gun, and I did but in the car, not on me. So I go in the truck and have to dig it out of where I had it, which was in a compartment under the center console. Took me a minute, and I focused so hard on it that I lost track of where the two people approaching my vehicle were. So with my gun in my hand and not wanting anybody to see me with it exposed, I simply froze. I didn't know what to do. One of the tvs was still in the buggie as I simply went for my gun just in case, and then I just sat there. It was only a few seconds, but it felt like an eternity.
Luckily, they didn't steal the tv, just knocked on my window asking for some change. Still think of what could have happened. Had I had the gun in my pocket and didn't have to go digging for it, I would have never left my position and took my eyes off the possible bad guys. I'm so disapppointed in the way I reacted to this adverse situation. Honestly, I was more worried about the gun, what would happen if they saw me with it and had their own weapon, what if other people saw me pull it and it created a panic, that I lost track of the situation at hand. I would have been better off just standing out there continuing to load the tvs with my mace in my hand and just waited to see how it played out.
I'll learn from this and move forward, keep practicing and getting more and more familiar with my firearm, and wait until my CCW arrives. I made a mistake, but luckily it wasn't anything that led to me or my wife being harmed. I've been thinking about it steadily since it happened. Has anybody else experienced anything similar?
Me and my wife went to Best Buy earlier today, were carrying several tvs back to my truck. I parked on the far side of the parking lot, and it was starting to get a little dark. I was thinking to myself we need to hurry and load the car for obvious reasons and said so to my wife when we got to the truck. Then we noticed two people, man and a woman, walking toward us, could tell it wasn't right. My wife asked me did I have the gun, and I did but in the car, not on me. So I go in the truck and have to dig it out of where I had it, which was in a compartment under the center console. Took me a minute, and I focused so hard on it that I lost track of where the two people approaching my vehicle were. So with my gun in my hand and not wanting anybody to see me with it exposed, I simply froze. I didn't know what to do. One of the tvs was still in the buggie as I simply went for my gun just in case, and then I just sat there. It was only a few seconds, but it felt like an eternity.
Luckily, they didn't steal the tv, just knocked on my window asking for some change. Still think of what could have happened. Had I had the gun in my pocket and didn't have to go digging for it, I would have never left my position and took my eyes off the possible bad guys. I'm so disapppointed in the way I reacted to this adverse situation. Honestly, I was more worried about the gun, what would happen if they saw me with it and had their own weapon, what if other people saw me pull it and it created a panic, that I lost track of the situation at hand. I would have been better off just standing out there continuing to load the tvs with my mace in my hand and just waited to see how it played out.
I'll learn from this and move forward, keep practicing and getting more and more familiar with my firearm, and wait until my CCW arrives. I made a mistake, but luckily it wasn't anything that led to me or my wife being harmed. I've been thinking about it steadily since it happened. Has anybody else experienced anything similar?