Neighbor openly carrying handgun What would you do? - The Firearms Forum

satellite66 · 02-17-2009, 04:19 PM

What would you do if your neighbor was openly carrying a handgun?

Doug.38PR · 02-17-2009, 04:21 PM

what would I do?....wave hello. Then go about my business

TranterUK · 02-17-2009, 04:22 PM

I love the reply about sorting out a good cross fire arrangement. And the one asking if the tree was a felon.

pinecone70 · 02-17-2009, 04:32 PM

If I saw a neighbor carrying, I wouldn't react. Heck, when I first moved here a group of hunters walked down the street with loaded guns and nobody did anything about it (even though that's against the rules). Lots of the comments are pro-gun, thank heavens.

Added: One of the replies is really good: "A criminal is a problem with or without a gun; he'll find SOMETHING to use as a weapon."

pickenup · 02-17-2009, 04:38 PM

Get upset, because he didn't ask me what to buy first?

(Neighbor is NOT a firearms person, he knows I am, he HAS asked about this before, I expect he will again, at some point)

LurpyGeek · 02-17-2009, 04:48 PM

Openly carrying a handgun while planting a tree... does that mean he's also openly carrying a shovel?!

durk · 02-17-2009, 04:49 PM

I would try to get a close look at his/her gun and make sure mine was bigger.

oldogy · 02-17-2009, 05:03 PM

I've been watching that story since it first broke. I think it should have been a case of MYOB on the neighbors part. About as stupid as what happened to a neighbor's kid here. The neighbor's son's GF called 911 as a joke when she and he were horsing around. Took the kid much money and time to get rid of that off his record even after the GF told the judge she was "playing around".
oldogy

icm856 · 02-17-2009, 05:12 PM

I would wave to him or her and consider my self fortunate that if my neighbors see any criminal activity in the neighborhood, they have the means to do something about it.

Haligan · 02-17-2009, 05:26 PM

I'd be glad I probably have an ally living close to me. Remember I'm from Jersey.

ponycar17 · 02-17-2009, 05:36 PM

Smile and wave...

I really don't get the problem, at all... I regularly shoot a range of guns in my yard and neighbors never complain. Heck, the ones behind me don't call their 7 kids inside either. They know that where we live, shooting is a normal hobby just like gardening and the large majority of us handle ourselves responsibly.

fmacsin1 · 02-17-2009, 05:41 PM

Like everyone else, I'd ask to take a look it. I have a concealed weapons permit, as do many people who live here. It used to be that everyone carried either a handgun, a rifle in his/her vehicle or both, especially in the fall and hs students driving to school would at the very least have a rifle in the truck for hunting after school; then they changed the law about even driving on school property with a gun, concealed or no after Columbine.

The Rifleman · 02-17-2009, 06:00 PM

Where I live, if you have a gun, it probably means that you are going hunting or you plan on shooting something. If there is a rabbit in the yard or a ground hog, you shoot it. Even if it is 11 o'clock at night.

The most the neighbors would say to you here is - nice gun, can I see it? What caliber is it, and where did you buy it, or what rounds are you shooting, or can I shoot it a couple of times. I probably have some shells around here for it somewhere if you want them.

One of the local state cops regularly jogged with a loaded 9 MM on his side and all the people could talk about was how awkward it would be to jog with a pistol sticking you in the ribs. State Police in Pennsylvania are required to be armed at all times is what one cop told me. But I have not yet seen one in church with a open weapon.

308 at my gate · 02-17-2009, 06:04 PM

I would say good afternoon sir. I did have a neighbor one time across the street from me chase another guy out of his house with a rifle pointed at him. I calmly walked over to him and asked what he was doing. He replied that this person had threatened him with a 9mm pistol so he chased him out with his rifle. I then told him that this was a neighbor hood with children and on the street and not to mention all the other people who live here and if the police saw this they would haul him away. He apologized and said he would not do it again. I then told him if he wanted to shoot someone just do it in his house not out in public. That was the end of it and I never had another incident.

artabr · 02-17-2009, 07:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TranterUK

I love the reply about sorting out a good cross fire arrangement. And the one asking if the tree was a felon.

I got a laugh out of the next one after the cross fire post.

quote: "I would scream, and then continue to scream until I could get under my bed and sooth my self by singing the Obama mantra over and over to my Obama picture that I keep in my shirt pocket".

Art

gdmoody · 02-17-2009, 08:51 PM

I also would wave at him/her then go over to say hello and see what he/she carries, what kind of holster, and what ammo is used.

delta13soultaker · 02-17-2009, 08:55 PM

I'd be polite about whatever I came outside to do.

ponycar17 · 02-17-2009, 09:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by delta13soultaker

I'd be polite about whatever I came outside to do.

1shot1k · 02-17-2009, 09:22 PM

Good post Satellite66.. my two cents.....
In Texas a while back..GOv Perry signed "castle law" into effect.

Nutshell: Without CCH permit...Texans can LEGALLY
carry on their propert a loaded handgun. This includes
property of owned vehicles while in and driving anywhere in texas.....nutshell....

Nutshell of Cannot Do per this law or CCH ...

* brandish or show weapon in threatening/offensive/unneeded fashion
*And of course have "said" weapon SEEN for any reason
other than immediate use for self defense...
*keep (covered but within reach) in property (vehicle)
while vehicle is on: School property..Local state Gov Property...Election Place Property on vote day...any sanctioned licensed hospital property...these are the basics...
* AND..same as TExas CCH...ANYPlace..anywhere..you have been "instructed" not to carry it or leave loaded in your vehicle or even HAVE in your vehicle.

Some CCH 's I know laugh and say.." as to the decal on the door...I can always say I didnt see it...haw haw.."

and meanwhile while ur being checked by local called pD to see if "you see it now?,,,your now on official maintained list of those who do not need to carry a defensive handgun....

Seen too many CCH brothers sonn construe this law as to be a"right" vs a licensed privelidge.....for any of those who have dillusions as to how this this works...wait until your DL exspires next...dont mail in or anything..just go in to DMV and tell them "Im not gonna waste anymore money on this DL crap..pay enough in road/gas tax. Driving is my RIGHT...let me know how that works for you....

Satellite ..in answer directly to your fine post ?...

I would simply holler and say " hey there dude...howdya
buy that and have to Borrow my frickin mower ?.....

Regards, 1shot

GojuBrian · 02-17-2009, 10:28 PM

Howdy neighbor!! Whatcha totin?

Bruce FLinch · 02-17-2009, 10:31 PM

I'd show him one of mine!

Terry_P · 02-17-2009, 10:41 PM

I'd ask if he was aware of something I wasn't or he was carrying just because it feels good. Then I'd invite him over to the club I'm a member at to do some shooting.

Pistolenschutze · 02-17-2009, 11:12 PM

It wouldn't bother me in the slightest, assuming the guy wasn't threatening anyone with it. Where I live, I would be hard pressed to name anyone I know who doesn't own a firearm. They're as common here as snowflakes in a blizzard.

1shot1k · 02-17-2009, 11:26 PM

hey sir, forgive me..my glasses in other room..I missed that.. whats this about em finding SnowMites on Buzzards..?

mrkirker · 02-18-2009, 06:27 AM

As long as he wasn't 'pointing', no problem. I WOULD begin using the other fence whenever I decided to relieve myself, though!

02-17-2009, 04:19 PM	#1
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02-17-2009, 04:21 PM	#2
Doug.38PR V.I.P. Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: North Louisiana Posts: 245	Re: Neighbor openly carrying handgun What would you do? what would I do?....wave hello. Then go about my business

02-17-2009, 04:22 PM	#3
TranterUK Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Cambridge UK Posts: 5,103	Re: Neighbor openly carrying handgun What would you do? I love the reply about sorting out a good cross fire arrangement. And the one asking if the tree was a felon. __________________ DVC - Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas - Accuracy, Power, Speed. The light at the end of the recession tunnel IS a train coming the other way!

02-17-2009, 04:32 PM	#4
pinecone70 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Minnesota Gal! Posts: 4,730	Re: Neighbor openly carrying handgun What would you do? If I saw a neighbor carrying, I wouldn't react. Heck, when I first moved here a group of hunters walked down the street with loaded guns and nobody did anything about it (even though that's against the rules). Lots of the comments are pro-gun, thank heavens. Added: One of the replies is really good: "A criminal is a problem with or without a gun; he'll find SOMETHING to use as a weapon." __________________ _____________________________________________ "Miss Scarlet, in the library...with a revolver...." Last edited by pinecone70; 02-17-2009 at 04:40 PM..

02-17-2009, 04:38 PM	#5
pickenup Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains Posts: 6,837	Re: Neighbor openly carrying handgun What would you do? Get upset, because he didn't ask me what to buy first? (Neighbor is NOT a firearms person, he knows I am, he HAS asked about this before, I expect he will again, at some point) __________________ The gene pool needs chlorine

02-17-2009, 04:48 PM	#6
LurpyGeek Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: UT Posts: 1,436	Re: Neighbor openly carrying handgun What would you do? Openly carrying a handgun while planting a tree... does that mean he's also openly carrying a shovel?! __________________ Knowing is half the battle... Of course, the other half is violence.

02-17-2009, 04:49 PM	#7
durk Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 2,026	Re: Neighbor openly carrying handgun What would you do? I would try to get a close look at his/her gun and make sure mine was bigger. __________________ Durk

02-17-2009, 05:03 PM	#8
oldogy V.I.P. Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: East TN Posts: 309	Re: Neighbor openly carrying handgun What would you do? I've been watching that story since it first broke. I think it should have been a case of MYOB on the neighbors part. About as stupid as what happened to a neighbor's kid here. The neighbor's son's GF called 911 as a joke when she and he were horsing around. Took the kid much money and time to get rid of that off his record even after the GF told the judge she was "playing around". oldogy

02-17-2009, 05:12 PM	#9
icm856 V.I.P. Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: IL Posts: 86	Re: Neighbor openly carrying handgun What would you do? I would wave to him or her and consider my self fortunate that if my neighbors see any criminal activity in the neighborhood, they have the means to do something about it.

02-17-2009, 05:26 PM	#10
Haligan Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: FEMA Region II Posts: 1,900	Re: Neighbor openly carrying handgun What would you do? I'd be glad I probably have an ally living close to me. Remember I'm from Jersey. __________________ "He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falshoods and errors." - Thomas Jefferson

02-17-2009, 05:36 PM	#11
ponycar17 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: South Carolina Contributor Posts: 4,884	Re: Neighbor openly carrying handgun What would you do? Smile and wave... I really don't get the problem, at all... I regularly shoot a range of guns in my yard and neighbors never complain. Heck, the ones behind me don't call their 7 kids inside either. They know that where we live, shooting is a normal hobby just like gardening and the large majority of us handle ourselves responsibly. __________________ Arm yourself with intellectual Ammunition! Gunfacts 5.1 Myth-Busting Facts JustFacts.com on Gun Control Stopping Power, the Downloadable Book

02-17-2009, 05:41 PM	#12
fmacsin1 V.I.P. Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Moosehead Lake, Maine Posts: 433	Re: Neighbor openly carrying handgun What would you do? Like everyone else, I'd ask to take a look it. I have a concealed weapons permit, as do many people who live here. It used to be that everyone carried either a handgun, a rifle in his/her vehicle or both, especially in the fall and hs students driving to school would at the very least have a rifle in the truck for hunting after school; then they changed the law about even driving on school property with a gun, concealed or no after Columbine.

02-17-2009, 06:00 PM	#13
The Rifleman Former Guest Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 135	Re: Neighbor openly carrying handgun What would you do? Where I live, if you have a gun, it probably means that you are going hunting or you plan on shooting something. If there is a rabbit in the yard or a ground hog, you shoot it. Even if it is 11 o'clock at night. The most the neighbors would say to you here is - nice gun, can I see it? What caliber is it, and where did you buy it, or what rounds are you shooting, or can I shoot it a couple of times. I probably have some shells around here for it somewhere if you want them. One of the local state cops regularly jogged with a loaded 9 MM on his side and all the people could talk about was how awkward it would be to jog with a pistol sticking you in the ribs. State Police in Pennsylvania are required to be armed at all times is what one cop told me. But I have not yet seen one in church with a open weapon.

02-17-2009, 06:04 PM	#14
308 at my gate Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Lost in SW USA. Posts: 847	Re: Neighbor openly carrying handgun What would you do? I would say good afternoon sir. I did have a neighbor one time across the street from me chase another guy out of his house with a rifle pointed at him. I calmly walked over to him and asked what he was doing. He replied that this person had threatened him with a 9mm pistol so he chased him out with his rifle. I then told him that this was a neighbor hood with children and on the street and not to mention all the other people who live here and if the police saw this they would haul him away. He apologized and said he would not do it again. I then told him if he wanted to shoot someone just do it in his house not out in public. That was the end of it and I never had another incident.

02-17-2009, 08:51 PM	#16
gdmoody Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Northeast Georgia Contributor Posts: 6,306	Re: Neighbor openly carrying handgun What would you do? I also would wave at him/her then go over to say hello and see what he/she carries, what kind of holster, and what ammo is used. __________________ NRA Endowment Member GeorgiaCarry.Org Member Retired US Army Postal Worker Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take an ass whoopin'.....author unknown (but obviously brilliant)

02-17-2009, 08:55 PM	#17
delta13soultaker Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Depends on Uncle Sam's whim every 3 yrs. Posts: 2,948	Re: Neighbor openly carrying handgun What would you do? I'd be polite about whatever I came outside to do. __________________ Never say die! "A nation who forgets its defenders is soon forgotten itself." "A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man." – Theodore Roosevelt

02-17-2009, 09:22 PM	#19
1shot1k Former Guest Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 904	Re: Neighbor openly carrying handgun What would you do? Good post Satellite66.. my two cents..... In Texas a while back..GOv Perry signed "castle law" into effect. Nutshell: Without CCH permit...Texans can LEGALLY carry on their propert a loaded handgun. This includes property of owned vehicles while in and driving anywhere in texas.....nutshell.... Nutshell of Cannot Do per this law or CCH ... * brandish or show weapon in threatening/offensive/unneeded fashion And of course have "said" weapon SEEN for any reason other than immediate use for self defense...* keep (covered but within reach) in property (vehicle) while vehicle is on: School property..Local state Gov Property...Election Place Property on vote day...any sanctioned licensed hospital property...these are the basics...* * AND..same as TExas CCH...ANYPlace..anywhere..you have been "instructed" not to carry it or leave loaded in your vehicle or even HAVE in your vehicle. Some CCH 's I know laugh and say.." as to the decal on the door...I can always say I didnt see it...haw haw.." and meanwhile while ur being checked by local called pD to see if "you see it now?,,,your now on official maintained list of those who do not need to carry a defensive handgun.... Seen too many CCH brothers sonn construe this law as to be a"right" vs a licensed privelidge.....for any of those who have dillusions as to how this this works...wait until your DL exspires next...dont mail in or anything..just go in to DMV and tell them "Im not gonna waste anymore money on this DL crap..pay enough in road/gas tax. Driving is my RIGHT...let me know how that works for you.... Satellite ..in answer directly to your fine post ?... I would simply holler and say " hey there dude...howdya buy that and have to Borrow my frickin mower ?..... Regards, 1shot

02-17-2009, 10:28 PM	#20
GojuBrian Former Guest Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Arkansas Posts: 62	Re: Neighbor openly carrying handgun What would you do? Howdy neighbor!! Whatcha totin?

02-17-2009, 10:31 PM	#21
Bruce FLinch Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Bay Point, Kali..aka Gun Point Posts: 5,016	Re: Neighbor openly carrying handgun What would you do? I'd show him one of mine! __________________ A bad day @ the Range, is better than a good day @ work.

02-17-2009, 10:41 PM	#22
Terry_P Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: NH Posts: 2,513	Re: Neighbor openly carrying handgun What would you do? I'd ask if he was aware of something I wasn't or he was carrying just because it feels good. Then I'd invite him over to the club I'm a member at to do some shooting. __________________ NRA and NAHC Life "Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms." -Aristotle

02-17-2009, 11:12 PM	#23
Pistolenschutze Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Colorado Posts: 13,094	Re: Neighbor openly carrying handgun What would you do? It wouldn't bother me in the slightest, assuming the guy wasn't threatening anyone with it. Where I live, I would be hard pressed to name anyone I know who doesn't own a firearm. They're as common here as snowflakes in a blizzard. __________________ --Pistolenschutze (Pistol Shooter)

02-17-2009, 11:26 PM	#24
1shot1k Former Guest Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 904	Re: Neighbor openly carrying handgun What would you do? hey sir, forgive me..my glasses in other room..I missed that.. whats this about em finding SnowMites on Buzzards..?

02-18-2009, 06:27 AM	#25
mrkirker Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 3,067	Re: Neighbor openly carrying handgun What would you do? As long as he wasn't 'pointing', no problem. I WOULD begin using the other fence whenever I decided to relieve myself, though! __________________ *I don't know if dogs have a heaven, but there will be dogs in mine.*