When did you begin CCing?

Started carrying at 34 because of the now-defunct PPP law in NC.

I grew up in SC, where I was used to walking up to any counter and walking out with the handgun I wanted, same-day. No waiting period, no permit I had to apply for in advance.

When we moved to NC, I couldn’t remember how many times I wanted to buy something, but then remembered I couldn’t because I had to first apply for a $5 permit.

Didn’t want that hurdle anymore, so I got a CHP. Hadn’t really ever thought of carrying before then, but it became an added benefit of trying to solve a different problem.
 
Since I came from up North where you can own guns but not carry them it wasn't until I moved here in 2011 when I applied for my CHP.
 
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2019 - I was 19, I got a job selling cars and apparently it is a real thing that people will try to kidnap salesman to ransom them so I got a ruger lcp 2 and when I turned 21 I got my CWP and mostly carry a S&W revolver or berettas now
 
Around 2010, I was a scoutmaster and every year we took the boys on a two-night backpacking trip through Uwharrie National Forest. One year, we had set up camp—you just find a place near the trail and near water and make camp—I saw two men in the camp talking to two of the boys. Turns out they had no bad intent, they were former Eagles themselves and out camping. But it impressed upon me how vulnerable we were. That’s when I applied for my permit.

BSA rules prohibit carry, because they think the boys will be safer out in the woods if their leaders are utterly helpless to protect them. But I was never without one again.

Another time, I had a truckload of scouts coming back from a trip in Virginia and came to a roadside checkpoint. I was glad it was not in NC where I would have had to declare the firearm because all the scouts and their parents would have known it before we got home.
 
MostWanted said:
Around 2010, I was a scoutmaster and every year we took the boys on a two-night backpacking trip through Uwharrie National Forest. One year, we had set up camp—you just find a place near the trail and near water and make camp—I saw two men in the camp talking to two of the boys. Turns out they had no bad intent, they were former Eagles themselves and out camping. But it impressed upon me how vulnerable we were. That’s when I applied for my permit.

BSA rules prohibit carry, because they think the boys will be safer out in the woods if their leaders are utterly helpless to protect them. But I was never without one again.

Another time, I had a truckload of scouts coming back from a trip in Virginia and came to a roadside checkpoint. I was glad it was not in NC where I would have had to declare the firearm because all the scouts and their parents would have known it before we got home.
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That's really good to know that there are some Scoutmasters out there who carry. As a scout leader myself, I know the BSA rules have prohibited it, but I always wondered...
 
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2019 - I was 19, I got a job selling cars and apparently it is a real thing that people will try to kidnap salesman to ransom them so I got a ruger lcp 2 and when I turned 21 I got my CWP and mostly carry a S&W revolver or berettas now
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Where were you a car salesman at, Juarez?
 
Turned 21 on deployment to Iraq and got my permit as soon as I got back in 2006. Got a Texas LTC when I moved there in 2015 and still maintain it for traveling In reciprocity states, but currently live in a Constitutional carry state and don’t need one. Although I have been thinking of getting one just to make gun purchases go even quicker by skipping the NICS check.
 
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Where were you a car salesman at, Juarez?
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rock hill lol when I started apparently someone almost got taken but was able to flee the car and the police picked the guy up later it might have been someone’s crazy SO or something who knows but yes people sometimes get kidnapped on test drives
 
1990 at 16 along with procurement of driver's license.

Mom and both Dad carried pretty much all the time.

Both my city grandpa and my country grandpa were WW2 vets who owned guns. Neither carried very often.

I only remember my city grandpa carrying on trips to FL with uncle to watch the shuttle take off on multiple occasions.

I know my country grandpa had a couple of handguns, and I grew up living beside him on family farm, but I never saw him carry (handgun anyway, shotgun and rifle usually in truck at all times).

The guys my dads age, or roughly the "Vietnam Vet Era" guys, by the 80s, every one I knew in my neighborhood carried.

Maybe underneath the edge of the seat in their 80s square body Chevrolet trucks wrapped in red shop rag, but always close at hand.
 
I was raised around long guns and deer hunted most of my life. I was 6 or 7 when I was allowed to hunt on my own. My father carried for a couple years dirty when I was maybe 8 or 9. He carried at the time because he was in a motorcycle club. That Beretta 25acp was stolen on a Harley and he never replaced it. Admittedly he is a hot headed marine and probably isn't quite calm enough to carry some days. (His words not mine)

I got my chp at 21 (2015) so I could carry while traveling and buy handguns. My first handgun was a Glock 23 I carried some off and on because my work at the time advocated and requested I carry at work. Owner had 2 young daughters that would stop by the office on the way home and sometimes use the wifi for homework or just hangout. His opinion was more armed people the better. Few years later I moved to Savannah with my now wife. While riding a bicycle one day (I think 2017ish) in downtown a very rude woman cussed us out, followed us, and even tried to hit us with her car. I wasn't carrying that day. Thankfully nothing extreme happened but it could have been worse. Since then I have been an avid concealed carrier. Every day, every step.

For those with significant others who are not quite anti gun but also think you're a little crazy it is possible to sway their mind. Before the bicycle incident my wife (then gf) would roll her eyes or make smart comments if I carried to "just go to the grocery store". Now she expects it, and religiously stands on my left side. I have even managed to "train" her to only slap my left asscheek so she doesn't smack my poor cz.
 
I was actually born in the Communist Republic of Calif. and there was a time there that they were not insane like they are today. I am 70 and my Grandfather always has a 38 in the glove box and he started teaching me to shoot when I was about 6 or 7 much to the horror of my Mom who believed you needed to be much older to pick up a gun. Growing up out there many people I knew carried and so did I on again off again. I moved to N.C. 30 years ago and made it legal later in life I truly believe in the police but sadly they can't be everywhere, so at some point my military/civilian training could be needed.
 
Mom and dad never had guns and never talked about them.

I loved guns from my earliest memories. Don't know why but i always have.

My grandpa was an old Kentucky boy and he always had a gun on him. Never mentioned it ever but everyone knew he had it.

When i was 8 i was riding with grandpa. And we got pulled over. The conversation went like this.

Cop- Good afternoon sir, i pulled you over for speeding.

Gp- ok.

Cop- license and registration please.

Gp- (to me) open that glovebox and hand me those papers.

I open the glovebox and there's a model 10 smith in there on top of the papers.

Cop- sir are you aware that that is a concealed weapon? Do you have a permit?

Gp- no sir. That is my gun and i don't need anybodys permission to own it and it's none of your damn business how i carry it.

I thought the cop was taking old grandpa straight to jail. I remember being a little scared.

Cop- (laughing) ok old timer. Just put it on the dash from now on ok?

Gp- Its mine and i'll put it wherever i please now write the ticket or don't.

Cop-(still laughing) this is a warning about speeding and carrying that thing in your glove box. Get home safe.

I couldn't believe it. I was so relieved he let us go and was happy to get back on the road. Grandpa was cursing to himself as he drove off and then he pulls over again and looks at me and says- listen It's your right to protect yourself and you never need to ask permission from anybody to do it. You got me? Yes sir. That was it. I already thought he was 10ft tall but after that he was 20. I loved that man more than anybody that ever lived and i never forgot that day.

Had guns as soon as i could get them and never stopped. Got my permit as soon as i was legally able to.
 
I got my concealed carry permit around 2002 and took the class down at Shooters Express in Belmont. Robert D Raeford's son who I think was a former State Trooper taught the class. It was definitely entertaining and informative and he made the time fly by. He was also no nonsense for the people that didn't know what they were doing. It was an evening class I went to with a younger buddy. I got home around 1:30am and my wife who was pregnant with twins at the time thought we went out drinking afterwards. We still talk about this occasionally.
 
Got my CHP as soon as I could after escaping the commie hell hole I was born into... Had to jump through some hoops on renewal last year because the online renewal system only accepts US Citizens... but I guess this is my 6th or 7th year of CC.
 
1995 when Virginia (where I was living at the time) went shall-issue. Law went into effect 7/1/1995, I had my permit in hand before the end of July and I've been carrying ever since.
 
1973......bought my first .38 snub nose revolver from a local town policeman for my personal carry. Pocket carried and usually one in my vehicle from that point on to this present moment. Concealed carry the majority of the time and open carry sometimes around the farm if the mood hits.

I never knew a time my dad did not have an SW Model 37 in his pocket to include me removing it from his body after a vehicle accident in 1983. We always had firearms close by for various reasons due to the types of work we did in making our living during my early years.

I believe in personal carry for all and find great satisfaction in being just a small part of this firearms community. I also appreciate the common interests we share in trying to enable as many as possible to possess, train, carry, and be prepared to defend life and limb from those who would do us harm.

Another reason we are so much more than a firearms forum.
 
I was a student at ECU around 2012ish we had a lockdown on campus for a report of a man with a gun. We were supposed to coward in place and wait it out but I got up and left and walked to my house 4 or 5 blocks from the campus. The incident ended up being a man with an umbrella but still the feeling of being helpless was enough for me to carry every step from there on our.
 
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