What Incident Led You Or Significant Other To Obtain A Permit.

3 Reasons

1) To protect my family

2) My line of work, see number one.

3) They way the world is today.

You never know who you will run into on the street, and as we all know sometimes bad guys carry guns too.
 
Police many of them told her that it was a terrible idea for me to get my permit
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Around here (east coast of Florida), LEOs usually encourage business people to arm themselves. Every one that has heard that I had a permit has made some sort of encouraging comment and told me to be sure my pistol was with me 24/7.
 
As another poster mentioned, my ex-wife had a stalker ex-husband.

Because he lived in a different state, it took me a long time to realize that his behavior was, indeed, stalking.

In retrospect, we did the right thing by never responding to any of his stalking behavior. I learned that stalkers were as happy to receive your hate as your love. It wasn't until the end of the marriage when he called my
home that I told him never to call us again.

Because he lived in another, yet adjoining, state our local Sheriff's Office
was not interested at all in intervening.
They simply didn't care.

When he finally passed through our city and sent the my ex a letter
followed up by a phone call, it was clearly time to get a CCW license.
This dude followed us to every place we lived during our 10+ year marriage,
sending letters to us, my ex's parents and even the minister who married them.

Wouldn't you know it that the ex eventually "turned a good thing into a bad thing"? She was freaked out and very concerned about our child.
With her approval, I taught my ex to shoot.
When she finally divorced me, she had the nerve to use all of this against me!
All I was trying to do was help her relax and feel safe.

Well, if anything else, I like that having a CCW license in my state eliminates
the waiting period. I haven't brandished a gun in 30 years, why would I start now?
 
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During most of those days, for better or worse, our LEOs were allowed a great deal more latitude in application of the law than they are now.
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Prior to the stipulations of the new laws, I could probably have counted, to a certain extent, on the old ways. But no longer.
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Maybe that was true in some areas in TX. In others, there wasn't much latitude given even before the CHL law passed.
 
Being a police officer & seeing everything that should never happen to
anyone, happen anyway.
Every victim I spoke with uttered, "why me?", or "I never thought this....".
"It" can happen to anyone, at anytime, any place.
 
For me, it was my decision to start solo hiking on multiple day trips in Bear and Wolf country(yes i know the odds of them attacking are very, very small). I'm a bigger guy, but when hiking alone it just gives me an extra bit of comfort late at night in my tent.

I had never been against CCW, but it took my state until a few years ago to allow it. I just procrastinated for a year or so after it was passed before i went and got one. I'm glad i did, as i carry a lot more than i thought i would.
 
What Incident Led You Or Significant Other To Obtain A Permit?
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Growing up in the inner city, being a victim of crime on several occasions as a child and teenager. Burglaries, robberies, assaults and seeing friends and relatives victimized and in a few cases killed.

My wife grew up in a deep south farming community way back in the day where they left their doors unlocked all day and night. She sometimes calls me paranoid.
 
In 1996 I started in corrections and thought a concealed handgun permit might

be a good idea. I kept it current till I got married and got short on money and

let it go at renewal time. I made the decision shortly afterwards that due to

my career and having a family I would go through the process and renew the

permit. I will never let it lapse again. Over 18 years being around the folks I

am around daily, I personally think people that don't get a chp are crazy!

My significant other almost got talked into getting her permit, but it just hasn't

happened, maybe one day.


Did I mention the benefit of being able to buy a handgun without a waiting

period and not having to call in for the background check! :)
 
Got out of Vietnam and the Army in 8/70. It didn't feel right to me walking around unarmed so I went out and bought a Colt .45 Semi-Auto and then figured I best have a permit, which was not as easy to obtain back in those days as it is now. Graduated Grad School near the end of '71 and was recruited by an Intelligence Agency. Been carrying every day since...and I have been retired from all my professions for the last 9 years. Worked for two different Agencies and was an Airline Pilot at the same time. Now I have more time to devote to teaching and developing custom courses as a Firearms Instructor and Flight Instructor.
 
Didn't need a reason,turned 21 at the time and it was legal for me to do it.;)
I did open carry my Ruger 357 Blackhawk in the day and also carried using a hunters permit at 18. The Ruger was carried strictly for hunting purposes though.
 
Yep, same reason I had for getting my Georgia license.

Why would something so ordinary require any sort of significant reason or incident? Do we ask what incident prompted you to get a driver's license?
 
Moved

Moved from New Jersey where even buying a gun was a PITA.
In the GunShine State it is a bit expensive but paying for 'privilege' of self defense beats the stuffing out of the hoops one needs to go thru where I used to live.
 
Newbie here adding in my reason.

I'm not unfamiliar with firearms. With two parents in the military, you can guess I was hands on as soon as they felt I was responsible enough. Some great memories were at an old gun shop owned by a family friend (no longer in business, none of the youngest generation wanted the store) burning through ammunition with my father.

I'm a young adult now, and never really bothered to think about a concealed carry permit. I don't exactly have a lot of disposable income, so the cost of the class, permit, my first handgun, accessories, etc. is enormous for me. But I got a little inspiration here recently. Everyday I hit the roads to exercise (usually a fast walk because I am flabby, but I do jog occationally) for 4-5 miles.

I am quite rural, but the neighbors are good people, they look out for you. Doesn't make the bears any less dangerous! I crossed paths with a bear who didn't immediately move on, a big one that I am sure someone would just love to put in the freezer! I stood my ground as he stood up, huffed, paced a few steps, then finally decided to go the other way. I had a can of bearspray, but that can only do so much. At least it wasn't a mother with cubs, or a hungry one. Though I do prefer bears over mountain lions any day, I'd rather not be on the menu for anything.

I'm signed up for a CPL class to get the ball rolling on a concealed carry permit. I got my paws on some different Walthers to try out, and my new PPQ M2 9mm is en route to an FFL dealer. I've always loved the feel of a Walther compared to GLOCK, Kahr, Sig Sauer, etc. which is why I went with one. No use in dropping that kind of money unless it is something I'll be happy using.

Once I have the permit, I guess I will be trying out holsters that can work with my workout cloths!
 
It wasn't getting a permit that was prompted by this incident, it was why I got my first gun, tho. We lived in a suburb of San Francisco maybe 25 years ago. I'd never owned a gun; my bedside arsenal for SD was an aluminum bat and a K-bar.

Then a man was murdered in the house behind ours. It was a domestic incident, but it scared both of us. I went out and got a Taurus 85 and started shooting at a nearby range. Then I upped the ante and got a Mossberg .12guage. Hired an offduty police trainer to spend a few hours showing us how to most effectively use it, but the recoil was just too stout for my wife and we wound up selling it a few years later.

I got my CHL in July 2004, the legally required six months after we moved to Texas. Trying for a permit in the Bay Area would have been a waste of time, so I didn't try. Wouldn't go back to CA for a free house on the beach in Malibu.
 
Haven't gotten a CCW permit yet, but here in IL you have to get a FOID card to own a firearm, so kinda similar to a permit. What prompted me was buying my own house and starting work in corrections. With the individuals that I work with it made me more comfortable to be armed at home, and now that I own my house and have the space to store what I might buy, it seemed like a good time to do it.
 
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