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Haven't yet, and hope I don't. But I was doing some dry-fire and magazine reload practice one evening last year, and got a phone call from an old friend. I sat down and relaxed. About 15 minutes into the call, the doorbell rings. I'm on the cordless so I think nothing of it, just get up and go to the door.

Our subdivision is posted against door-to-door solicitors, but it does sometimes happen, as it did this time. It was a young guy at the door; and it wasn't until I saw his eyes drop from my face that I realize I'm wearing a T-shirt tucked into jeans, a gun belt, a double-magazine holder with two mags on my left side, and a full-sized, cocked-& locked 1911 in a Kydex OWB holster on my right.

Nothing illegal about it--I was standing in my own house--but I would never intend to shock a poor kid just trying to sell pest services or something.

It was a very brief sales pitch, though. He didn't want to stick around.