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IzzI wrote:My church posted 30.06 . I can't say when it went up,but it's there now

You should post it at texas3006.com so that other CHLs looking for a church can make an informed decision instead of being surprised by it when they get there.

RJGold wrote:I know I have seen several discussions about carrying at Church and I wanted to post a couple of questions.

I have not carried at Church yet because I am not sure I could do it without being discovered. I play in our church band and our normal "uniform" is jeans and t-shirts. I am also frequently hugged at church and I worry about someone discovering my weapon during one of these hugs.

My carrying configuration is an XDM 9 Compact in a CompTac MTAC IWB.

For some of you who do carry at Church here are a couple of questions:

1. How do you dress around your weapon at Church?
2. How do you deal with hugs that may expose your weapon if you were carrying.

Thanks.

I play in our church band in the main worship services, and I am the worship leader in our Celebrate Recovery ministry. I am always armed, carrying OWB, usually with a mid-sized pistol (XDm-45 Compact 3.8)...........and nobody knows. I always wear collared shirts untucked at church, which more than covers the gun. I am left handed, and I deal with hugs by going in "high and low" so my gun side is always protected by my low arm. That leaves some small possibility that they'll bump my spare magazine, and that has happened, but with all the crap that regular people carry on their belts these days—cellphones, etc.—nobody has ever commented. Once, when gathering for prayer in a circle before going on stage for a main worship service, the girl on my right put her arm around my waist and rested her left wrist on top of my gun. I'm not sure that she even realized what it was, and she never said anything to me. About half the members of the worship team are my close friends and they know that I carry.