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My son and future daughter in law know......but then I gave them their CHL class for Christmas 2010.

scref wrote:How many of your friends and family members know that you carry? If they do know is it because you told them of they found out some other way? Do you make it public that you have a CHL or do you keep it to yourself?

Everybody in my family except my mother knows. My brothers (who live in California as does my mother) are mildly jealous because they can't, and moderately amused because I do. My mother, who is a survivor of a Nazi invasion and Allied liberation, won't even let the word "gun" be uttered in her home in conversation. (It's amazing to me just how illiberal liberals are.) She's convinced that guns simply enable evil, and she's unwilling to admit that guns also prevent it. But then, she's into that whole one-worlder thing.....and is not terribly concerned about the price in human liberty necessary to achieve it.

As far as my friends go, most of them know, but then most of them are also shooting buddies....and I don't have that many friends. I have lots of acquaintances whith whom I'm friendly. But my friends list is fairly short. That said, I don't walk around with a sign on my shoulders announcing my CHL, and I'm hesitant to discuss matters of CHL, partuclarly where it concerns me personally, unless I have a sense of where the other person is coming from.

On the other hand, when a frank conversation goes in that direction, and the other person seems interested in discussing the possibility of getting a CHL, and I know that person, then I'll let the conversation naturally go toward my own CHL status if that's where it seems headed. In other words, I don't advertise it, but I'm not particularly paranoid about hiding it either. I try to let wisdom be my guide in those situations, but I also want to be an encourager of people to become gun owners if they're not already—particularly women—and when the conversation allows it, I do promote my Basic Handgun class. Invariably, when a person expresses interest in that class, they also want to know if I teach a CHL class. It was my intention to take the CHL intructors class this year, but I don't know if I'm going to be able to do it or not. Anyway, if the conversation goes that way, I'll recommend an instructor to them and urge them to go ahead and get their CHL.