# CCW question. About carrying a gun **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 19, 2007, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ccw-question-about-carrying-a-gun/400860 "2007-04-19T23:50:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 31
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2007, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ccw-question-about-carrying-a-gun/400860/31 "2007-04-21T18:43:30Z")
[QUOTE=galen] What do you people do that requires something that I would really consider to be a pain in the ass? I can’t imagine anything beyong being a cop or some other security function. [/QUOTE] I had some serious death threats related to my job. Although I am not a “Police officer” I am a “Bureaucrat with a badge” and some dudes take things hwaaaay too seriously. Once I transferred to another area and no more threats I began to carry only when traveling to bad neighborhoods, then I stopped altogether. In some other societies my job would have a uniform and a gun, in others I’d have less crazies making threats. I guess it all balances out. **enipla** It varies state by state. In some a OD Officer is _required_ to carry, in others he is allowed to without a special permit. There could be some where he has to get a permit, I don’t know. Generally no one other than a bailiff or a judge gets to carry a gun inside a courtroom, but again that could be different in other areas. To add what Scumpup said- there is also a vest or jacket pocket. I often wear a vest, one of those “photog” vests with a zillion pockets, and my Beretta fitted nicely in one pocket- one where’d it’d be natural to rest my hand anyway. Thus I could have my hand on my gun in my pocket when things got a little tense. ffensive comments and threats, having a pistol is very comforting. I only had to pull my gun once, some doped out loser waving a knife said “I have a knife- give me your money”- I showed him my gun and he ran, dropping the knife. I suppose a martial arts expert could have taken him safely too. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ccw-question-about-carrying-a-gun/400860)._