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Matter of fact, just got my handgun permit(s) today. Going out this weekend to pick up a couple new toys. Going for either the Glock 17 or 21 (only because the magazines that fit my Kel-tec match them) and I'm undecided on the other....Any suggestions?

You guys are making me wonder if I should have one. I do not own any guns anymore. I haven't fot 15 yrs since I quit hunting. I have not eeven considered it until now . Makes me think I should get one while I can have no use for one right now but I may need something for defending the home place.

Interesting replies guys.....I only have 2 permits, so I'm limited right now, especially with $$$. I'm definitely going with either the 17 or 21 just because like I said the mags match, but as for the second one, I'm not sure. I never thought to apply for a carrying permit, not that I think I need to, but it's an interesting concept. Do you think I should, (before it's outlawed altogether) and how hard is it to get a carrying permit?

Anybody have any experience with the Springfield SIS Custom/RL? I saw one in the Handgun buyers guide for 2009 and it looked pretty nice, a couple different safety features, but the price tag was a little steep.....Retails for $1421.00. I think the LAPD is using them as a test group or something like that if I remember right.

To me it's a "better to have it & not need it, than need it & not have it" deal. Don't need a permit either - in N.C. you do for concealed carry, but you never have to carry openly. And to me, the permit deal is a bit counter-productive - used to see folks with a pistol on their hip all the time & nobody thought much about it - but it's not likely someone will try to rob a local store when many of the customers are armed & that's easy to see.

But even though you don't see folks carrying that much anymore, one reason the crime rate is so low in this area is it's common knowledge that most people have a firearm in their home or business. Key factors are the Sheriff says he prefers an armed public & the district attorney will not prosecute someone for protecting themselves, family, property, even a total stranger. Since the criminals know that, they stay in the city where most people are not armed & the DA probably will prosecute you for defending yourself, family, property.

With respect to the permit deal, friends of mine own a vending machine co. & have always been armed. They looked @ the concealed carry permit application & saw that WAY too much personal information was required so they didn't apply. And neither will I. If you have to get a permit or license to exercise a right it's not a right anymore - it's a "privilege" you have to pay for. And @ least here, you don't need a permit or license to keep a firearm in your home, carry a pistol on your hip, etc. & you don't have to "register" your firearms. Firearm registration, licensing, etc. is what tyrants like Hitler did & I won't have any part of it.

Back to the original point of having a firearm in the home, if you do, know how to use it, take proper care of it & everybody knows that, odds are you'll never have to use it. I'm never more than 10 feet away from a firearm with "one in the pipe" - click safety off, pull trigger - takes about 1/2 a second. My neighbors know that too. I can't stress proper training enough, but again, if folks know you have a firearm & will use it, odds are the only time you will is @ the target range.

Kennesaw Ga......I can`t remember.....A few years back made it a law to have a gun?....Dang getting old...maybe someone else can remember how it was......

Alabama....in Dekalb Co. where I live....just get a permit..easy

Had mine in the truck in Maryland when I picked up gym equipment for my wife`s business a few years back....We planned to visit NY and Washington while up there.....Friend we were buying the equipment from advised me that I would never get back to Alabama if they caught me with the gun....permit or not!!!! We thought we would visit NY at some other time.......