CCW and your children

[tec]

I explained to my now 8 y/o daughter awhile ago that I carry the gun to protect the family and that nobody else needs to know about it, b ecause if somebody else knows about it, then I couldn't protect her and her mom as well. She was cool with that and hasn't said a word, even when fellow CCW's point blank ask her is daddy has a gun on him.

[Pharmakon]

IMO carrying a gun should not be a big deal here in America. So if some teacher or parent has a problem with it and decides to do something about it then they are in for an education.

I like the Swiss take on gun ownership. Every adult male must be part of the Swiss militia and own a government issue Sig 556 Full auto rifle and issued Sig p220 9mm pistol which they can apply to carry. Firearm murders are very very low in Switzerland and there is no gun stigma.

*hmm. I wonder what their immigration laws are like..*

[ichy_trigger]

i found that being totaly open with the kids about guns has made them look at guns as if they were no more than a pocket knife laying around.

They were told not to tell anyone that mom or dad carries guns, not to tell their friends how many guns we have and of course they know not to mess with them.

I take the kids shooting anytime they ask and I let them fondle guns anytime they ask. They have no curiosity to guns since we took the mystery out of them.

[vagabond]

You should tell your kids you carry because cant hide it forever. If the child tells friends at least he / she knows they will be safe with the family.
I hid my guns from my kid for around 7 years but I recently got busted one day trying to get a lizard out of a bedroom and me wielding a broom on top of the bed, my kid came into the room and seeing me on top of the bed trying to wack the lizard and saw the ppk tucked in my back shouts at me
" daddy are you going to shoot the poor lizard "

[LUVMYSIGP225]

Originally Posted by mullarz

My wife and I had our first child 3 months ago. We are both CCW permit holders and carry even in our own home.

A questions for those of you with kids.

How would you keep an 8 year old child from telling all of their friends, teachers, friends parents or any one else that Mommy and Daddy carry guns?

This is not a gun/child safety question. I will have the safety talk and lessons but how do you keep your own child from ratting you out?

I have a few years to think about it, but someone else out there must have thought the same thing.

Simple, I tell them that it is our secret, and not to discuss it in public. And, it works.

My sons are 8 years old, 6 years old and 10 months. They have been around guns since birth, and they really don't think much of it.

My kids are GRILLED on gun safety, over and over. They have play guns and airsoft guns, and I require them to treat the play guns as real weapons.

I subsribe to the theory that if you DO NOT make guns taboo with your children, they will be less likely to be fascinated with them.

This just comes from my childhood, being raised on a midwest farm, and guns were EVERYWHERE. Loaded and propped in the corner of the barn, in case we had to pop a rat or groundhog.

[Apdl]

Originally Posted by koda-xd

dont let them know untill you know for sure that u can trust them. ther is no reason to tell them you carry.

agreed just try to holster and unholster out of view

[zac07]

You also have to be prepared for the unexpected. There was a post awhile back, I think it was propeller head, where his son hit his head on the gun while they were at the store and said out loud that he hurt his head on the gun. It just shows that even if they know they shouldn't tell anyone sometimes it comes out.

[TobyU]

I guess it depens on where you live....which would cause me to want to move quickly....
I am proud we have CCW in Ohio. I am not concerned with anyone knowing I have a CCW.
I don't want my kids broadcasting if I have a huge collection....no more than I would want them telling everyone I had a safe full of money...(I wish I had that problem though.)

Honestly, I dislike anti-gun people....there are usually also many ideas that anti--gunners have that I also clash with .....So usually....I just don't like people who don't like guns.
If they could care less...then that's ok...but if they are against guns...we usually wouldn't be "buddies"...put it that way.

And if fact....I get a kick, be it right or wrong, from people that are so anti gun.....since I am in every way legal to carry...
So if a school teacher etc. were to have an issue if my son let the teacher know I carry...The only thing I expect the teacher to say is "I hope he doesn't carry in the school....because that it illegal" any other comments are out of line and strictly non of his or her business.