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Your opinions: Where is it improper to carry?

sudden valley gunner

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Done it while OC. I told the instructor, who asked why I brought it with me, that in case my parachute failed, I wasn't going to spend thirty seconds screaming while the ground got closer, and closer. He nodded sagely and said 'good call'.

I do wish the days of dueling was still around, and still legal. Then I'd have cause to wear my fancy mink skin gloves~~~

Sweet! I was going to do it when my cousin was alive, it was something on his bucket.
 

since9

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On someone else's property on inside their residence if they've asked you not to.

Then again, one must weigh one's relational ties with one's desire to exercise their Constitutional rights.
 

HPmatt

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German Nudists try to defend against Syrian refugees....

Who knew that years ago OCDO already contemplated what the Germans near Dresden in East Germany would encounter....

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...r-as-refugee-shelter-arrives-on-a7096001.html

While it is still funny, there is some twinge that Skidmark & Peter Nap are not able to chime in....


So far none of the mentioned places are "improper". At best they might be described as places where you run into more problems than usual. There's a way to waterproof your gun in a baggie that provides excellent access to the trigger. A level 2 retention holster might be preferred when you are going to be doing a lot of moving about, especially if it involves changes from vertical to horizontal and back again.

As Nightmare pointed out, it is improper to carry on the residence/dwelling place of someone who does not want you to. SC law is a bit of overkill because of "some people" who I'm guessing forgot their manners once too often. Thankfully the law does not insist on permission each and every time. Also, complying with the law provides an opportunity to educate someone that LACs are just that as opposed to the crazed killers just waiting to "go off" that anti gun rights folks try to paint them as.

It's probably improper to carry into the room where an MRI machine is, because your gun being sucked up by the magnetic field could damage the machinery. Or is that just imprudent?

I'm not allowed any more to make reference to http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-19897.html& , but that's just a description of inconvenience, not impropriety.

Seems finding places where it is improper to carry is more difficult than even I thought it would be.

stay safe.
 

Grapeshot

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Who knew that years ago OCDO already contemplated what the Germans near Dresden in East Germany would encounter....

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...r-as-refugee-shelter-arrives-on-a7096001.html

While it is still funny, there is some twinge that Skidmark & Peter Nap are not able to chime in....
Not too surprised at what comes up.

Peter would have done a video documentary of it and Skid would have verbally dissected the event. 'Twicks the two, they would have licked the platter clean.
 

lockman

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Carry should be allowed in all public locations. Restrictions should be allowed at government locations only if those locations are not accessible to the general public and citizens would be trespassing.
 

Ezek

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not sure if it was mentioned... but back to the thread topic, of carrying and places of impropriety, not sure fi it was mentioned, but how about outer space? ( since they are trying to commercialize upper atmosphere travel where "weightlessness" exists)

cause you know, high pressure cabin in extremely low pressure environment and all that. and if they do space walks.. well, recoil could have a fairly negative effect on where you wind up going.
 

nonameisgood

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Having access to a firearm for use as a personal accelerator would have changed the outcome of the movie Gravity. And there would be a few additional projectiles tearing up the neighborhood.


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Ezek

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Having access to a firearm for use as a personal accelerator would have changed the outcome of the movie Gravity. And there would be a few additional projectiles tearing up the neighborhood.


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yeah.... wonder how long a geostationary bullet would take to circle the earth. DAMNIT, now i'm going to have to do some math.

edit: 14 hours approximate for a bullet, travelling at roughly 2500FPS, or 1700 MPH.. to circle the equator.. useless knowledge overall, but now I know.
 
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nonameisgood

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yeah.... wonder how long a geostationary bullet would take to circle the earth. DAMNIT, now i'm going to have to do some math.

Geostationary implies that the bullet wouldn't be moving relative to the surface of the earth. One could potentially achieve that for a short time with a ballistic projectile, but I'm not rocket sciencey enough tonight to do this math off the top of my head.

At geosynchronous orbit altitude, a bullet traveling something like 8-9000 fps would be geosynchronous, iirc. But if you fired a bullet while the gun is traveling at the speed, the result would be different. My math may be off...


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While surfing, diving, or snorkeling? The whole saltwater vs steel thing.

I have a small mostly polymer B.U.G. that I'll double baggie and carry in the zipped pocket of my bathing suit at the beach.
Members of another message board give me schmitt about doing that ("what are you, a kook? :rolleyes:) but I don't go anywhere unarmed. That little pistol was cheap enough and isn't a primary carry gun, so I'm not that worried about it getting wet. A good cleaning afterwards does the trick. Plus I don't go to the beach that often.
 

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I have a small mostly polymer B.U.G. that I'll double baggie and carry in the zipped pocket of my bathing suit at the beach.
Members of another message board give me schmitt about doing that ("what are you, a kook? :rolleyes:) but I don't go anywhere unarmed. That little pistol was cheap enough and isn't a primary carry gun, so I'm not that worried about it getting wet. A good cleaning afterwards does the trick. Plus I don't go to the beach that often.

not sure that was why the kind folks on the other message board were giving you schmitt about...there are other methods to enhance one's swimming suit bulge(s) w/o a 'small' little gun wrapped in baggies....

tho, the concept of someone on the beach, after getting into a sand kicked in their face contest, reaching into their swim suit and pulling out and unwrapping baggies to get their small gun is beyond humorous and actually borders on a very bad porn script.

i am also sure the good cleaning of the little pistol is also necessary...

roflmao...

ipse
 
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twoskinsonemanns

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Having access to a firearm for use as a personal accelerator would have changed the outcome of the movie Gravity. And there would be a few additional projectiles tearing up the neighborhood.


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Ha! I had the same thought but was thinking of The Martian.

I'm so glad this ol corpse got dug up!
 

Va_Nemo

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Only place improper to carry is at your own funeral.

I already have a deal with all my siblings that they will make sure I have one of my old cheap ones in the box with me in my hand, condition one when I go and it stays after the box is closed.

Never know where or when you might need it so its best to have it with you all the time.

Nemo
 

Ezek

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Geostationary implies that the bullet wouldn't be moving relative to the surface of the earth. One could potentially achieve that for a short time with a ballistic projectile, but I'm not rocket sciencey enough tonight to do this math off the top of my head.

At geosynchronous orbit altitude, a bullet traveling something like 8-9000 fps would be geosynchronous, iirc. But if you fired a bullet while the gun is traveling at the speed, the result would be different. My math may be off...


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you are correct, a geo-synchronous orbit would be stationary to a relative position on terra firma. I meant the altitude at which a geostationary orbit is achieved, my apologies.

usually when astronauts go into orbit, they enter a geo-stationary orbit, so the bullet, if fired would act as if fired from a relative postion on the ground, and if it would enter a stabilized orbit around earth continuing at it's speed relative to the stationary point, in the void of space, which it likely wouldn't, but if it did, it would take 14 hours to come back around and nail you in the arse.
 
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