JosephMingle
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Well, I've a couple weeks off and on the first day my lovely wife decides she’d like to visit the local malls to do some Macy’s and Lord and Taylor shopping. I hate malls – primarily because I can’t open carry but also because there are way too many people milling about. Even when I want to visit a store (LL Bean, GameStop, Starbucks, etc) I want to get from one to the next without having to spend the entire transit time dodging sheeple. Did I mention my wife still hates that I carry? I think the mall thing is her way of needling me. Anyhow, on to the story.
I holster up before we leave and head off to the Pentagon mall knowing full well I’m going to have to store the weapon before I go in because with +100 weather and no reasonable way to hide my Glock 38 there just isn’t any other choice.
We return from wandering around the mall (I did the wandering while my wife found her clothing prizes) and I promptly retrieve my weapon and return it to its proper place – my hip. Then we head off for Tyson’s Corner. I punch the destination into TomTom and leave the parking garage without a GPS fix. TomTom decides the quickest route (while we’re underway) is through DC. I didn’t realize that until it was too late, at which time I promptly change direction only to end up on GW Parkway in completely stopped traffic. Not sure if I was worse off now than I was before. I unholstered my weapon, unloaded it, handed it to my daughter who placed it in the trunk through a pass-through, put the mags in the glove box and locked it then stowed my holster under the passenger seat.
I finally plotted a new route on TomTom that avoids DC and gets me off the parkway.
The whole time all I could think about were all the stories I’ve read about people ending up “criminals” because they violated some nonsense law without intent but by accident/oversight. It’s so frustrating when there are so many unreasonable restrictions on our Constitutional right to KABA.
Well, I've a couple weeks off and on the first day my lovely wife decides she’d like to visit the local malls to do some Macy’s and Lord and Taylor shopping. I hate malls – primarily because I can’t open carry but also because there are way too many people milling about. Even when I want to visit a store (LL Bean, GameStop, Starbucks, etc) I want to get from one to the next without having to spend the entire transit time dodging sheeple. Did I mention my wife still hates that I carry? I think the mall thing is her way of needling me. Anyhow, on to the story.
I holster up before we leave and head off to the Pentagon mall knowing full well I’m going to have to store the weapon before I go in because with +100 weather and no reasonable way to hide my Glock 38 there just isn’t any other choice.
We return from wandering around the mall (I did the wandering while my wife found her clothing prizes) and I promptly retrieve my weapon and return it to its proper place – my hip. Then we head off for Tyson’s Corner. I punch the destination into TomTom and leave the parking garage without a GPS fix. TomTom decides the quickest route (while we’re underway) is through DC. I didn’t realize that until it was too late, at which time I promptly change direction only to end up on GW Parkway in completely stopped traffic. Not sure if I was worse off now than I was before. I unholstered my weapon, unloaded it, handed it to my daughter who placed it in the trunk through a pass-through, put the mags in the glove box and locked it then stowed my holster under the passenger seat.
I finally plotted a new route on TomTom that avoids DC and gets me off the parkway.
The whole time all I could think about were all the stories I’ve read about people ending up “criminals” because they violated some nonsense law without intent but by accident/oversight. It’s so frustrating when there are so many unreasonable restrictions on our Constitutional right to KABA.
