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I have no idea how anyone can "forget" they are carrying. I carried fairly regularly for years before letting my CCW expire during COVID. And I was always VERY aware that I was carrying, checked regularly to make sure I wasn't printing, and what places allowed and didn't allow carrying.
To me, forgetting you are carrying a gun and going to the airport is a negligent as leaving your gun in a bathroom. It shows you are not treating it with the respect and caution that should be required in order to own a gun.
EDIT: Clarified that I carried for years and made sure I wasn't printing.
It's just complacence. Doing the same thing every day. It's just a habit. People probably forget. That's not an excuse at all , in fact, I'd say that becoming complacent with a firearm is extremely bad in any circumstance.
It seems insane that people take a gun with them so often that it becomes a habit. Impossible to comprehend from a country without an unhinged gun culture.
They carry their crippling fear and inadequacy with them everywhere. Why not the gun too?
I agree that it is insane. But considering that I live in a country with an unhinged gun culture, it is part of life.
And weirdly, you have to strike a balance. You don't want to be complacent and forget you're carrying a gun or treat it like it isn't the deadly weapon that it is. But you have to be comfortable and familiar enough with it to be able to go about your day and be able to reliably draw and fire accurately if a situation occurs where the gun is necessary. Otherwise, there is no point in carrying at all.
Maybe a good comparison is driving or operating heavy machinery? You need to be aware at all times that you are operating something that could kill you and others in an instant at all times. You need to know where you are, where others are, etc. But you also need to be comfortable and familar enough with your vehicle or equipment that you can operate it smoothly and react to unforseen events.
I've had issues with pocket knives I forgot I couldn't take through security. I assume it's that same with any object a person carries habitually.
Either this is a spell correct or I simply don't understand the sentence...
I believe it means that the gun is making an "imprint" in your shirt. Like someone could see your gun under your clothes. I would think if someone were concealed carrying, this would be undesirable.
Sounds like they wanted it to show. They're part of the problem.
No, just autocorrect fail. Meant I made sure regularly that I wasn't printing. I didn't want it to show. That would break the whole point of conceal carry. And I live in a state where open carry w/o a license is legal so I could if I wanted. But I didn't want to.
That makes more sense.
I see, thanks!
Yeah, autocorrect fail. Meant that I wasn't printing. Which means I made sure that there wasn't an obvious gun bulge or something visible.
/u/electric trombone pointed that out, yeah.
I don't know about forgetting weapons.
But forgetting you have something on you on general pretty easy. I mean it doesn't necessarily be on you I am gonna expect the truly forget ones probably was on a bag or similar that they didn't remember they put something there the other day.