traveling with firearms

bigred1cav wrote:
CCW laws permit the concealment they do not mandate concealment. I applaud your service, but how is that relevant to CCW? In Vietnam we all carried all the time and that was mandated by our jobs. To carry now is to choose to be armed for some threat perceived, and sold to us to make us afraid and distrust our neighbors. In the backwoods why do you need or want a concealed firearm. I have hunted people and big game and never hide my weapon to keep the animal from knowing I was armed.

I did say what i meant. To carry a gun as part of employment is fulfilling the duties of the job, it is not a choice. As a Police Officer we were subject to a three day suspension to be unarmed in public. The reason was to protect the citizens when at a site of despair. Not to protect us unless one of ingrateful arrestees got out of prison and decided to hunt us down. Do you need to carry a gun to protect you and your family from felons you arrested and put in prison?

down home wrote:

mowermech wrote:
"...he doesn't need to carry a gun,..."
NEED has nothing to do with the fact that he branded ALL those who carry guns as "cowards".
If that is not what he meant, then quite possibly he should have said EXACTLY what he meant.
Sorry, but I still see the implication that back when he carried a gun, he was, in fact, by his own definition, a gun-carrying coward.
In Vietnam, I carried ALL THE TIME! Was I a coward?
When we go into the back country on a camping trip or fishing trip, I may be armed. I am not worried about people, but there are bears, mountain lions, badgers/racoons/skunks, etc., some of which may be rabid. Yes, "bear spray" might work, but a firearm WILL work! Shucks, even ol' Mama Moose can be very dangerous sometimes! As can Bambi!
"Be Prepared" isn't just for Boy Scouts!

When I do have a firearm on me, I feel no need to display it. It is not anyone else's right to say I can't. I keep in in the pocket because these nannies have succeeded in a lot, of people being afraid, of a tool and anyone with one as a threat. The Cop doesn't want to carry one that's fine. Denying the right we enshrined and protected from government and people like this is wrong. It is wrong to creat a privileged class, that can exercise their Right and deny others. Politicians and ex Leo's or even Leos have the "right" but no one else is wrong. It has ceased to be our Right and the Constitution is dead when the Privledged classes are the only ones allowed firearms, or freedom ,of speech and so on.I refuse to observe privledged classes. It is our rights. The course has to be cahnged back to intent and letter, of the Constitution.

"I did say what i meant."

Thank you for clarifying that.
By the way, when I carry in the back country, it is open carry, not concealed. I do not have a CCP, even though Montana is a "Will Issue" state, and my military background gives me the training necessary to get one.
Montana is also an "Open Carry" state (Article 2, Section 12, Montana State Constitution), so I don't need a CCP, and I see no reason to spend the money for one.