NY Times article on concealed carry fashion

[41magsnub]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/us/fashion-statement-is-clear-the-gun-isnt.html

The article is reasonably well balanced, the comments are about what you would expect.  Apparently I am an insecure, bloodthirsty, racist, overaggressive, sexually inept, vigilante coward with a small/non-existent penis and no fashion sense.  The fashion sense part is at least accurate.

I did not know woolrich is now marketing concealed carry clothing.  I'll need to check that out.  It is nice to see more clothing geared for this that is not from 5.11

[RevDisk]

I did not know woolrich is now marketing concealed carry clothing.  I'll need to check that out.  It is nice to see more clothing geared for this that is not from 5.11

I did not know that Woolrich is a Pennsylvanian company.  Woolrich, PA is apparently a two hour drive... Hrm.  Might need to make a roadtrip.

[brimic]

It is nice to see more clothing geared for this that is not from 5.11

But 5.11 makes your penis bigger, why wouldyou not choose 5.11?

[Ben]

Interesting comments to the article. I like the diatribe that included the author telling someone on the street that Woolrich makes CCW clothing, and how that person took off his Woolrich jacket right then and there and threw it in a trash can. I hope it was cold outside when he did it. 

[Tallpine]

Oh what a hissy fit they would have over my open carry 

[brimic]

MikeWI..If all the good guys have a concealed guy, what's to stop the bad guys from getting bigger, automatic guns? Will that be the next level of safe protection for the NRA? What this country needs are "smart" bullets for the stupid people who intend to use guns.

We need 'smart' computers a whole lot more apparantly.

[BlueStarLizzard]

 

Women are the fastest growing group of gun owners! And all we get is ugly purses!

And I stopped reading comments after the first two. Just because stupid exists on the interwebs, doesn't mean I have to read it.   

[Jocassee]

Oh what a hissy fit they would have over my open carry  

Open carry is how God intended guns to be worn. The rest of us are just living in sin.

Woolrich, a 182-year-old clothing company, describes its new chino pants as an elegant and sturdy fashion statement, with a clean profile and fabric that provides comfort and flexibility. And they are great for hiding a handgun.

For some reason the way he wrote that "hook" just infuriates me...it's the OMG THIS IS A HUGE DEAL AND YOU SHOULD CARE!!!!111 voice that journalists use when they think they're educating the rest of us to something that's "trending."

Give me a break.

[MechAg94]

Open carry is how God intended guns to be worn. The rest of us are just living in sin.

No, we are just no coming out of the closet completely.   

[AJ Dual]

I like  all the negative anti-RKBA comments.

Obviously, the PRIMARY purpose of CCW, licensed or constitutional is one's own self-preservation.

The SECONDARY purpose is to exercise RKBA, in the theory of "Rights unused are rights lost" etc.

For me at least, there is also a THIRD purpose to CCW as well. (And ownership of various un-PC EBR's also) I do it and support it just because it bothers and/or frightens them.

One of the perennial problems in politics is that the collectivist mindset never gives up, they're always there, grinding away, when blocked on one avenue, they advance up another... And by our own nature, getting the individualist, by definition, to oppose them in as organized a fashion for as long as the collectivist will is nearly impossible.  RKBA and gun rights is one of the few successful gains the individualist ideology has made in the past decade or so. And if I can't destroy them, or remove them from the process, I will always strive to upset them, frustrate them, hurt them (mentally), worry them, demoralize them, grind them down, and make them suffer in anyway I can.  

I'm civilized enough that I don't do it directly or overtly myself. "Hey anti! (waggles hips) I've got a GUUNNNNNNN! And I'm CLOSE to you! WOOOOOH WOOOHH! Nothing you can do about it!" But the passage of CCW laws, and exercise thereof bothers them. And to that I say, good.

But 5.11 makes your penis bigger, why wouldyou not choose 5.11?

I thought that stood for 5.11 inches already?

[BlueStarLizzard]

I like  all the negative anti-RKBA comments.

Obviously, the PRIMARY purpose of CCW, licensed or constitutional is one's own self-preservation.

The SECONDARY purpose is to exercise RKBA, in the theory of "Rights unused are rights lost" etc.

For me at least, there is also a THIRD purpose to CCW as well. (And ownership of various un-PC EBR's also) I do it and support it just because it bothers and/or frightens them.

One of the perennial problems in politics is that the collectivist mindset never gives up, they're always there, grinding away, when blocked on one avenue, they advance up another... And by our own nature, getting the individualist, by definition, to oppose them in as organized a fashion for as long as the collectivist will is nearly impossible.  RKBA and gun rights is one of the few successful gains the individualist ideology has made in the past decade or so. And if I can't destroy them, or remove them from the process, I will always strive to upset them, frustrate them, hurt them (mentally), worry them, demoralize them, grind them down, and make them suffer in anyway I can.  

I'm civilized enough that I don't do it directly or overtly myself. "Hey anti! (waggles hips) I've got a GUUNNNNNNN! And I'm CLOSE to you! WOOOOOH WOOOHH! Nothing you can do about it!" But the passage of CCW laws, and exercise thereof bothers them. And to that I say, good.

I feel so tempted right now... 

[Boomhauer]

I like  all the negative anti-RKBA comments.

I'm just going to go ahead and admit that pissing people off is one of the greatest joys in life. I love to make people turn purple with anger and send their blood-pressure sky-high.

[lupinus]

Open carry is how God intended guns to be worn. The rest of us are just living in sin.

I'm just going to go ahead and admit that pissing people off is one of the greatest joys in life. I love to make people turn purple with anger and send their blood-pressure sky-high.

There is opportunity for a road trip in there somewhere

[vaskidmark]

I'm civilized enough that I don't do it directly or overtly myself. "Hey anti! (waggles hips) I've got a GUUNNNNNNN! And I'm CLOSE to you! WOOOOOH WOOOHH! Nothing you can do about it!" But the passage of CCW laws, and exercise thereof bothers them. And to that I say, good.

I wish I could remember all the times I've had someone telling me how much they did not like guns*, did not like people with guns*, and how they were so deathly afraid of guns* they would faint away on the spot if they ever found themselves near a gun* - and then drew their attention to the fact that for the entire time they had been telling me all of this I had been openly carrying.  Not a single one of them fainted on the spot.  In fact, none of them even seemed to get woozy for a bit.

Yes, among the reasons I open carry is to upset the hoplophobes.

stay safe.

*except for the ones worn by police officers 

[seeker_two]

Women are the fastest growing group of gun owners! And all we get is ugly purses!

I wouldn't say that....

 http://www.flashbangholster.com/Flashbang_Holster/Welcome.html

 http://www.womensoutdoornews.com/category/gear/

[BlueStarLizzard]

I wouldn't say that....

 http://www.flashbangholster.com/Flashbang_Holster/Welcome.html

 http://www.womensoutdoornews.com/category/gear/

*snort* yeah, great, the dumbest holster since thunderwear and instead of tacticool, I get to look like a hunt/country club woman who just got back from shooting skeet with her hubby dearest. 

[seeker_two]

*snort* yeah, great, the dumbest holster since thunderwear and instead of tacticool, I get to look like a hunt/country club woman who just got back from shooting skeet with her hubby dearest. 

Consider it camoflage....no one would ever guess you were a pistol-packin' animal lover then.....

[BlueStarLizzard]

Consider it camoflage....no one would ever guess you were a pistol-packin' animal lover then.....

Yeah, but then the yuppies might want to talk to me 

[BryanP]

I'm just going to go ahead and admit that pissing people off is one of the greatest joys in life. I love to make people turn purple with anger and send their blood-pressure sky-high.

I admit, for the period of time I owned two AK's (I found a great deal on a upgrade, finally sold the old ones a year or so later) I enjoyed the chance to respond to someone's outrage that I owned one of "those" guns with "No, I don't.  I own two of them."  "WHY?!?!"  "First, because I can.  Second, to piss off people like you."

[Ben]

 "First, because I can.  Second, to piss off people like you."

That is becoming my standard reply to morons who demand an explanation from me regarding my gun ownership.

[lee n. field]

"Hey anti! (waggles hips) I've got a GUUNNNNNNN! And I'm CLOSE to you!

I feel so tempted right now... 

Come on.  You know that's hot when chicks do it.

[Tallpine]

That is becoming my standard reply to morons who demand an explanation from me regarding my gun ownership.

After two months in CA this year, I can safely say that you live in a moron-rich environment

[seeker_two]

Yeah, but then the yuppies might want to talk to me 

.....like branches on a ghillie suit.... 

[RoadKingLarry]

I thought that stood for 5.11 inches already?

Obviously a company as tacticool as 5.11 would use the metric system so the question becomes mm or cm?

[Perd Hapley]

Interesting comments to the article.

Two wrongs, do not make a right. Why anyone would want to defend themselves, perplexes me. If someone wants to harm you, or your family, JUST LET THEM! We have laws to deal with crime after the fact, if and when the criminals are caught.

just reading the headline made me nauseas. I could not read the article. what are we coming to? (or regressing to.)