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Re: The women in your life and their guns
« Reply #50 on: January 15, 2012, 10:47:13 PM »
My wife....she grew up a New York liberal.. She will  shoot with me....sometimes. She does really well with the Beretta 92, so it became our home defense handgun.  CCW?    Not a chance....but that works for us, as I drop her off and pick her up at the door of her office due to gas prices. wish she would.    I think it's hot!
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Re: The women in your life and their guns
« Reply #51 on: January 16, 2012, 12:11:41 AM »
My wife carries either a Springfield XD .45 or a Kel-tec P-3AT for concealed-carry, has a Ruger Bearcat for fun, and will soon be getting a 20 gauge Remington 870 Express for home defense use.

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Re: The women in your life and their guns
« Reply #52 on: January 16, 2012, 01:07:46 AM »
My lovely wife just totes me around and hopes I'm armed.  She don't shoot.

ditto...
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Re: The women in your life and their guns
« Reply #53 on: January 16, 2012, 11:46:32 AM »
Wife likes to shoot a 1911 with a .22LR conversion kit, did pretty well in a training class with a CZ-75B in 9mm but doesn't carry anything (although she does have a lifetime pistol permit).

Best friend's wife carries one of those little, aluminum-framed Kimber 1911s.

Wife's grandma keeps a NAA .22 mini-revolver handy.

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Re: The women in your life and their guns
« Reply #54 on: January 16, 2012, 02:24:37 PM »
My wife:

Nothing.

Won't shoot.

Does not carry.

Probably does not want me to carry, which is why I don't tell her when I do. (which is generally when I'm wearing pants, not drinking, and not stepping foot on my kids school grounds.)
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Re: The women in your life and their guns
« Reply #55 on: January 16, 2012, 03:18:33 PM »
Aren't the situations in which you are not wearing pants exactly the situations in which you should be carrying? Or at least have it within arm's reach?   :angel:
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Re: The women in your life and their guns
« Reply #56 on: January 16, 2012, 03:49:43 PM »
When I'm not wearing pants, it's in reach in my pants on my bedside, and there's another firearm in the GunVault under my nightstand, or the pants are in the bathroom with me while I'm taking a shower.

Drinking, and school? Well, that sucks, but better to be vulnerable, rather than risk losing all RKBA...
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Re: The women in your life and their guns
« Reply #57 on: January 16, 2012, 04:36:42 PM »
Aren't the situations in which you are not wearing pants exactly the situations in which you should be carrying? Or at least have it within arm's reach?   :angel:

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Re: The women in your life and their guns
« Reply #58 on: January 16, 2012, 10:24:06 PM »
I'm doing an informal survey to learn more about what women carry and use, for market research. If your wife, girlfriend, significant other, mother, sister, daughter, or all of the above carry a gun or use a gun, please tell me what it is and what caliber.

Surely you jest.

One woman I dated for about ten years had previously been married to a police officer. They lived on a small lake. The day he left the force, she took his guns, rowed out to the middle of the lake, and dropped them overboard.

My wife despises guns. Fortunately for me, I had (most of) my guns before I met her so she knows she can't demand that they go away, but she makes it clear that she DOES ... NOT ... LIKE ... GUNS. Visiting her family last Christmas, I was mildly astonished to discover that her son owns guns and shoots, her brother owns guns and shoots, her nephew shoots (I don't think he owns) -- the whole fan damily seems to be into guns. Gotta wonder what happened to my wife ...
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Re: The women in your life and their guns
« Reply #59 on: January 16, 2012, 11:20:25 PM »
Surely you jest.

One woman I dated for about ten years had previously been married to a police officer. They lived on a small lake. The day he left the force, she took his guns, rowed out to the middle of the lake, and dropped them overboard.

My wife despises guns. Fortunately for me, I had (most of) my guns before I met her so she knows she can't demand that they go away, but she makes it clear that she DOES ... NOT ... LIKE ... GUNS. Visiting her family last Christmas, I was mildly astonished to discover that her son owns guns and shoots, her brother owns guns and shoots, her nephew shoots (I don't think he owns) -- the whole fan damily seems to be into guns. Gotta wonder what happened to my wife ...

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Re: The women in your life and their guns
« Reply #60 on: January 16, 2012, 11:43:31 PM »
My mom, when she carries, carries a Smith .357 with .38s loaded. I have two other female friends who carry, One a hammerless Smith .38 and the other a Ruger LCR, I think.
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Re: The women in your life and their guns
« Reply #61 on: January 16, 2012, 11:53:33 PM »
My mom has a Ruger M77 in 7mm-08 and a Browning Auto-5 in 20 gauge, but she hasn't used either of them for 20 or 30 years. My sister doesn't own any guns, but will occasionally shoot one of mine or one of my father's. (Actually, same goes for my brother). They don't mind guns, they just aren't "into" them.
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Re: The women in your life and their guns
« Reply #62 on: January 17, 2012, 12:51:19 AM »
<vader>Impressive.</vader>

Why, thank you sir.  =)

Ladies, thank you for posting your comments.

I'm adding gun make model, caliber, and use to a spreadsheet and will post the results when I'm done collecting data. As you can see here, it's a bit all over the board. I'm going to put something up on facebook too and sometime soon will have a full questionnaire for women shooters. And when the time comes APS will be the first to know what I'm doing and why! :)

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