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Skiprr wrote:

jimlongley wrote:As someone who spent 28 years going into people's homes as a telephone repairman and who was "attacked" one and a half times, I see no problem with carry into people's homes...

There's a story missing here about the one-half time. You gotta tell us someday.

The short version:

All modern telephone central offices can detect troubles on subscriber telephone lines, frequently before the customer notices it. I was sent on such a trouble on a sub who was WAAY out in the woods.

When I stepped onto the porch of the house, the door opened just enough for a shotgun barrel to poke through. I explained what I was there about, and the gun holder told me "I ain't got nuffin wrong wif ma phone" so I left.

I called my boss and let him know what happened, and then I got hold of a friend who happened to be a county sheriff's deputy. A couple of weeks later the place was raided, seems as though all the pot growing in his "corn" fields was quite visible from the air. The first six or eight rows of corn around the field were corn, everything in the middle was pot. Kind of explained why the poor reception.

I count that as a half attack, wouldn't have mattered if I was carrying, I would not be crazy enough to draw against a shotgun pointed at me, particularly since he wanted me to leave. If he had just told me that he didn't want me there, without the gun, I would have left and probably never told my friend and reported the trouble "Subscriber refused access" and that would have been it.

Right2Carry wrote:

phddan wrote:For comfort, the ankle rig would be better, imo, while your laying and rolling on the floor.

IMHO carrying into someones home who is a customer is just bad business. I would think most businesses that sent out repair reps ECT... would have a no gun policy in effect for entering a customers home. I don't care about them leaving it in the vehicle, but I don't want someone I don't know entering my home with a loaded gun. I have no idea what kind of training that person has, and a AD in my home from someone performing a service that I am paying for is going to amount to a huge lawsuit on someone.

Family or friends that I know is one thing, a person performing a service is quite another animal all together. I can't imagine a business allowing thier employees to go armed into a private citizens home to perform work. IMHO it is not a good idea.

Sounds like you need to post the 30.06 sign at your front door, or verbally tell people that they dont have the right to protect themselves in you abode.

Dan

Being invited to someones home as a friend and going to a house to perform a service are two entirely different things. I am not really sure how the law looks at this, nor am I so sure that a 30.06 posting or a verbal warning is required for someone entering your home as a repairman.

I guess some research is in order on this.

As someone who spent 28 years going into people's homes as a telephone repairman and who was "attacked" one and a half times, I see no problem with carry into people's homes, if they live in TX they should know that the guy who comes to the door might be CHL and if they want to prevent it, they should act appropriately. If they are ignorant of the law, too bad, welcome to Texas, if they don't like it, too bad, welcome to Texas, and if they don't post, see above.

OTOH, having spent a lot of time crawling around crawl spaces and such, I have given a lot of thought to how I might carry under the circumstances without hindering my ability to move or work, and have come to the conclusion that the best thing to do is try several alternatives and find the one that works best for you. I think that a good comfortable IWB at the right kidney would have worked for me, I have never worn my drawers low enough to expose plumber's revenge and my tool belt and climbing belt would hit lower than the holster.

BTW, in neither of the circumstances that I found myself in would it have been appropriate to respond with a firearm. One time I was physically attacked by a person with mental difficulties who didn't understand my presence, and the other I was met by a shotgun pointed though the door on a guy's pot farm.

How about company policy about carry on the job. The phone company had very strict rules about that.