Anybody ever forgot their CCW?

[brutal]

Now, on topic with the thread. I could see forgetting about it until you were in the airport but actually getting through the security line before remembering... I travel about 40 times a year and I basically pat myself down before even approaching the line to make sure I don't have anything that will get me slightly hassled in my pockets. Now I can completely understand accidentally ending up with a bullet or mag in a piece of luggage, a small knife would be very easy to forget, but a loaded gun doesn't make much sense to me.

I've been patting myself down for years since I got jacked in Vegas with a knife I forgot to drop in the luggage. Easy enough to drop it in a mailer at the time but not always the case if you're used to timing gate arrival. Had to laugh that I got through DIA with it on the outbound. I don't mix range gear and travel gear, the CCW piece stays home unless I know I will need to go somewhere besides home on return, and the truck gun becomes primary for the duration.

[Irving]

IMHO you shouldn't hold strong opinions about things you don't know anything about.. But different people do different things differently.

Why are you even taking exception to this post?


Anyway, I lost a SOG micro that I forgot was on my keychain at the airport, mace at Denver court house, and been flagged at Adams court for that credit card multitool thing. Has anyone gone some where, and just realized that the are only carrying their holster and extra mag, but no gun?

[asmo]

Why are you even taking exception to this post?

'Only an irresponsible gun owner would forget that they are carrying a gun.. I mean, my god, the thing can jump out of the holster and start killing innocent women and children at any second...'

I would post pictures but I don't want to incriminate the 'innocent'..

[TheWeeze]

'Only an irresponsible gun owner would forget that they are carrying a gun.. I mean, my god, the thing can jump out of the holster and start killing innocent women and children at any second...'

I would post pictures but I don't want to incriminate the 'innocent'..

I don't know where that came from. I don't believe anybody called anybody irresponsible...did they?

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[asmo]

I don't know where that came from. I don't believe anybody called anybody irresponsible...did they?

Not here. But that is how the argument from the other side usually goes. Its a tired one generally spewed by people, gun owners a like, who have never been in the situation and who don't actually carry every day of their lives.

[AirbornePathogen]

IMHO you shouldn't hold strong opinions about things you don't know anything about.. But different people do different things differently.

I'm only tossing in my two cents here, just like everyone else. Can't say I appreciated that, I've come to expect better from the people here.

[cysoto]

Nope! Hundreds of flights and never so much as a spent casing. Yowza!

My buddy got busted at the Loveland airport a couple of years ago with a single .223 cartridge in his carry-on. It was under that flat piece of plastic that gives rigidity to the bottom of the bag. It earned him a strip search and a nasty letter that he got in the mail a couple of weeks later.

[TheWeeze]

I got pulled to the side and had to submit to the "aggressive" full body pat down in a back room because that damn sniffer machine hit on something on my bag. Not even the one I take to the range. They had to wipe me down, invasive pat down, re-test my carry on and my clothes to find out I was clean. Took 45 minutes. Missed my flight. Was more than slightly irritated to say the least.

[TFOGGER]

I've lost a couple of pocket knives, an SOG Micro, and a handcuff key at different courthouses over the years. I'm usually pretty good about not carrying when I go to court or for jury duty now, making sure I don't have anything that will raise any eyebrows. What annoys me, though, is that attorneys could stroll in there with a friggin TOW missile in their rolling file cabinet, at least at Jeffco, because they get to bypass the metal detector.

I've flown about 20 times since 9/11/01, and more than half of those I've been selected for "extra screening"...

What kills me it that I could easily shut down a major airport for a few dollars, without ever setting foot inside. There would be no danger to anyone, but their explosive detectors would go apeshit...

[JlazyH]

I got nailed at the JeffCo Court House and lost a very expensive CCW holster. I had a court date and locked my Glock in the trunk of my car under the spare tire. When I went threw the check point I had to take off my belt and they saw the holster. They wouldn't let me keep it because if someone saw the empty holster they would freak wondering where I had the gun?