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Some of these replies are sounding a little arrogant. If one is going in another's home as an invited guest on a social visit, not as, say a business service call, what gives one the right to carry without the homeowner's knowledge? Does their invite give one this right? This is not a business, it's a private home.

I only carry in someone's house if I know they are ok with it. It's a respect thing for me.

If I worked where I was making home service calls to stranger's homes, that would be a different thing.

Soccerdad1995 wrote:

jed wrote:

Soccerdad1995 wrote:

jed wrote:I may be confused here, most likely the case, but seems I remember a discussion a few months ago about not legally be allowed to carry on private property according to some state law. Seems I remember someone giving an example of having a cookout and inviting friends over, cc and oc welcome, that they would have to have a "handgun class" to legally get passed the state statue. I searched the forum but came up empty.

I believe that thread related to allowing other UNLICENSED people to carry in your home. The consensus seemed to be that you could not legally allow them to do so unless there was a "sporting activity" of some sort happening at your home, like a handgun class. The key here being that the hypothetical folks did not have an LTC.

Ok, thanks. I didn't remember the licensed part.

I remember participating in that thread. I may have veered another thread off topic. My issue was that I was planning to take my BIL to the range, and he did not have an LTC. I preferred to show him the guns that we would be shooting at my house, so he could understand how they worked while in a quiet and relaxed environment as opposed to on the shooting line at the range where it would be noisy and we would both be wearing ear protection. The consensus seemed to be that it would be illegal for him to handle any guns while at my house since it was not property under his control.

At the risk of taking this one off topic, I would be very uncomfortable at a range. The range part of my LTC class was very unnerving as I had never shot in a line with other shooters and the percussion from the person on either side of me was very unsettling. I used to go to a range (same one with the class) back in the early 90's but it was very informal then and I would go about daylight on the weekends and had the place to myself. For the last 20 plus years I have my own range in the woods behind my house.

Back to the topic, I have no problem with someone carrying in my house because if they are in my house or on my place, I know them very well.

Soccerdad1995 wrote:

jed wrote:I may be confused here, most likely the case, but seems I remember a discussion a few months ago about not legally be allowed to carry on private property according to some state law. Seems I remember someone giving an example of having a cookout and inviting friends over, cc and oc welcome, that they would have to have a "handgun class" to legally get passed the state statue. I searched the forum but came up empty.

I believe that thread related to allowing other UNLICENSED people to carry in your home. The consensus seemed to be that you could not legally allow them to do so unless there was a "sporting activity" of some sort happening at your home, like a handgun class. The key here being that the hypothetical folks did not have an LTC.

Ok, thanks. I didn't remember the licensed part.

I may be confused here, most likely the case, but seems I remember a discussion a few months ago about not legally be allowed to carry on private property according to some state law. Seems I remember someone giving an example of having a cookout and inviting friends over, cc and oc welcome, that they would have to have a "handgun class" to legally get passed the state statue. I searched the forum but came up empty.