well, yesterday was a nice landmark as it was my first experiance with open carry. i figured my biggest hurdle would be getting comfortable with it myself, let alone my family. we decided we needed to go to lowes up on 202 jujst before the PA boarder. being in my infancy of this i decided to call the store, speak with the manager and find out what his companies policy was only because i didnt want to get in there with my girl, our 5 year old and a 5 month old then have me asked to leave and make her go get everything or us just not get anything we needed. the manager wasnt sure, lol. he called em back a few moments later and said that he didnt see any issues with it as long as everything was with in the legal bounderies. so the next part to handle was the 5 year old. "why do you have a gun? are you going to shoot people?" was his response to seeing it on my hip lol.. i told him no, that "it was just to make sure mommy, you and baby alex dont get hurt by any bad guys" he said, "yes you are going to shoot people, your going to shoot bad guys and zombies!!" hahaha yeah buddy, if theres any zombie, i probably will shoot them.
once in the store it was likei didnt even have it. walked around no body said anything, most didnt even notice. i saw some eyes look down but that was the extent of it. we got everything that we needed and proceeded to the check out line.. thats when i someone finally saw it and spoke up about it. it was the cashier, he looked at me, looked at the gun, looked back at me and said. " nice gun, im starting to carry mine with me more also"
all and all, it was a good experiance, and helped make me more comfortable enough to keep doing it.
once in the store it was likei didnt even have it. walked around no body said anything, most didnt even notice. i saw some eyes look down but that was the extent of it. we got everything that we needed and proceeded to the check out line.. thats when i someone finally saw it and spoke up about it. it was the cashier, he looked at me, looked at the gun, looked back at me and said. " nice gun, im starting to carry mine with me more also"
all and all, it was a good experiance, and helped make me more comfortable enough to keep doing it.
Pew pew pew... 'Murica