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MrMcCullster wrote:Whoops. I should have started the thread instead of hijacking that other one, but I'll go into more detail here.


We will see how she reacts to the carry situation when I get my plastic and start carrying on a regular basis. I honestly don't know how she will react when I tell her that I choose to not go places that have the .06 and .07 signs posted. I have no doubt she wants us and our 3 year old daughter to feel safe when we go out. I just hope that she comes around. I'll try to keep you guys posted. My plastic should be in the mail this week.

Just let her come around at her own pace. It will likely happen slowly and a little at a time.

I have a three year old son and we keep all of our guns locked up except the one that I'm carrying. My wife was not as opposed to it as yours. I took her to the range last year in September, but she really didn't care to shoot. She was scared to rack the slide on my pistols. I wanted her to at least know how to handle a gun and feel safe with it, but I knew that she wasn't going to let me teach her. For this reason I convinced her (several months later) to take a ladies only Basic Handgun course (from Charles Cotton). She was dreading the course, but ended up enjoying it alright, but only shooting .22 LR. After that she indicated that she may one day get her CHL. But she doesn't seem to want to while the kids are so young (3 and 1). Meanwhile I think that I probably need to start talking to my son about gun safety soon. He's too smart for his own good at this point, and I think that some of his little friends have already started "teaching" him some things about guns. So, he needs to learn it from me and not any 4 year old.

As far as how to handle 30.06 establishments, you will have to decide for yourself what to do. 30.07 probably shouldn't be a problem, since I'm assuming that you plan to CC.

I personally haven't had a problem with 30.06 at restaurants and stores, because there aren't very many 30.06 postings in my area. I'm sure though that if my wife's favorite restaurant was 30.06/30.07 that I would probably still take her there and just lock my gun in the car. Gotta weigh the risks. Getting attacked in a restaurant is less likely than when getting in/out of your car. Get a center-of-mass.com lockbox for under your carseat if you plan to leave your gun in the car. The common smash and grab crook won't get able to take it without cable cutters or something to pry the box open.

By the way I was proud of my wife last week. I bought a new gun (that she didn't want me to get). When I brought it home she wanted to see it. So I handed it to her and she dropped the magazine out and checked the chamber. I didn't have to remind her to check it.

Ryan wrote:My first wife was pretty anti-gun, and her WHOLE family was vehemently against guns. This is one of the many reasons the marriage didn't work.

I am remarried now, and before we even made it official that we were boyfriend and girlfriend, we had a very long talk about the things that I/we would never give up. For me, it was my guns, my dogs, and my motorcycle. And if she was against them in any way, we need to end the relationship now before it goes any further. But thankfully, not only is she very pro-gun, but she has her LTC as well. And both of my in-law parents have their LTC, as well as my brother in law. So her entire family is very pro-gun.

If at all possible, this is something that should be addressed before the word marriage is even discussed. However, I'm well aware that some people have been married before LTC was even a "thing." And I have no words of wisdom for those of you in this situation. I just made sure on my current marriage that all of this was discussed before getting into something that was doomed to fail.

You're lucky she didn't ask you to sell off all of your tattoos.