# Family Gatherings **URL:** \ **Category:** Mental Training\ **Created:** [April 6, 2019, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/family-gatherings/1012 "2019-04-06T13:00:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dawn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/dawn/32/24_2.png) [@Dawn](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Dawn)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2019, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/family-gatherings/1012/1 "2019-04-06T13:00:03Z")
With Easter just around the corner (April 21st), then Mother’s Day on deck (May 12th), do you carry to extended family events? _Poll ([view on site](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/family-gatherings/1012/1))_ If someone in your family is against you carrying, how often do _they_ bring the topic up? ---
**Author:** ![Jesse](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/jesse/32/3112_2.png) [@Jesse](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Jesse)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/family-gatherings/1012/2 "2019-04-06T13:16:14Z")
Actually my mother says “Like Father Like Son” ---
**Author:** ![Dubi\_Loo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/dubi_loo/32/667_2.png) [@Dubi\_Loo](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Dubi_Loo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/family-gatherings/1012/4 "2019-04-06T15:09:18Z")
Many in my extended family are Uber liberal, read socialist. When they come to my home I’m strapped. When I go to their home, out of respect, I leave my gun and my MAGA hat in my car. It’s an uneasy truce. ---
**Author:** ![JKetchem](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/jketchem/32/194_2.png) [@JKetchem](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/JKetchem)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/family-gatherings/1012/5 "2019-04-06T15:22:51Z")
Funny thing, mom and dad frisk me during hugs. If they feel a gun, they pat me on the back. ---
**Author:** ![45IPAC](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/45ipac/32/2855_2.png) [@45IPAC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/45IPAC)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/family-gatherings/1012/6 "2019-04-06T15:55:23Z")
My extended family carries as well. The ones that don’t, I don’t go to their house (Chicago). They come down south. They know I carry, voice their opinion about how “guns kill” then I shred them with facts about how that hospital they work at is more dangerous than my guns, since it’s a gun free zone, in Chicago, and malpractice kills 20 times as many as agun homicides every year. They change the subject then. ---
**Author:** ![Dubi\_Loo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/dubi_loo/32/667_2.png) [@Dubi\_Loo](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Dubi_Loo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/family-gatherings/1012/7 "2019-04-06T16:09:31Z")
Living in cRook county is challenging! ---
**Author:** ![ChrisH](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/chrish/32/917_2.png) [@ChrisH](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/ChrisH)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2019, 4:22pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/family-gatherings/1012/8 "2019-04-06T16:22:39Z")
@James… I agree with you. I would not say that my extended family “Love” it. But they know, and accept it. ---
**Author:** ![89badger](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/89badger/32/824_2.png) [@89badger](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/89badger)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/family-gatherings/1012/9 "2019-04-06T21:32:28Z")
My rule is that I will not carry on private property without first seeking the permission of the owner. Asking the question has given me respect/credibility with people who are “afraid of guns” and also allowed me to educate them why this right is so important. ---
**Author:** ![NJStraightShooter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/njstraightshooter/32/135_2.png) [@NJStraightShooter](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/NJStraightShooter)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2019, 2:40am UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/family-gatherings/1012/10 "2019-04-07T02:40:03Z")
@Dawn, If I were able to carry out, I would not carry to a family event out of respect of a family member… ME. My extended family, at least to my knowledge is Anti-Gun. I must have been adopted! LOL! ---
**Author:** ![MrDJ](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/mrdj/32/112_2.png) [@MrDJ](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/MrDJ)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 12:37am UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/family-gatherings/1012/11 "2019-04-08T00:37:49Z")
Since some of these events happen in my own home they really couldn’t say anything. The other events happen in the People’s Republic of Illinois, so I’m forced by the thugs in charge to disarm upon entering. One brother works for a company that supplies law enforcement with everything they need from uniforms & vehicle equipment to firearms & accessories. My daughters have all been to a range for shooting. But there are still some that don’t know & might not approve. ---
**Author:** ![James](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/james/32/639_2.png) [@James](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/James)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 1:20am UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/family-gatherings/1012/12 "2019-04-08T01:20:04Z")
I’m going to the family farm this upcoming weekend in central Wisconsin, and was asked “how many guns did you get since deer season?” and “do you want to bring some up to shoot?” Should be a nice Easter lunch with family… ---
**Author:** ![Phil-G45](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/phil-g45/32/341_2.png) [@Phil-G45](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Phil-G45)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 11:37am UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/family-gatherings/1012/13 "2019-04-08T11:37:59Z")
Actually, this hasn’t ever came up. I’m not shy with my support for our Second Amendment, or my beliefs about carrying a firearm daily. Everyone who I may visit has seen my social media posts. If someone were to object to my carrying, I would respectfully leave. I feel if you don’t trust me in your home with my firearm, you simply don’t trust ME. And in that case, I shouldn’t be there. ---
**Author:** ![NJStraightShooter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/njstraightshooter/32/135_2.png) [@NJStraightShooter](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/NJStraightShooter)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/family-gatherings/1012/14 "2019-04-08T19:48:40Z")
Let me clarify my answer in another way here: One family member lives in the Anti-Gun State of New York so I would not be able to carry and the rest live in the Anti-Gun State of California so I would not be able to carry. ---
**Author:** ![Zee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/zee/32/705_2.png) [@Zee](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Zee)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 4:42am UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/family-gatherings/1012/15 "2019-04-11T04:42:07Z")
Yeah, I haven’t told my mother yet. Probably not going to either. One brother and his wife are former Navy, they’d be fine, and my sister and most of my half-siblings would be fine I think. But mom? ah… that’d be yeaNOPE. Not happening.