Pistol Packing Knitters

March 19, 2018, 12:08 PM

cne32507

My wife’s liberal friend lost her husband last month and is slowly returning to her former active social life. Her latest step was to touch base with the women who hang around a downtown knitting store, knitting and chatting. As the Parkland shooting was on everyone’s mind, the conversation turned to firearms. Two of the knitters said they owned guns and one casually pulled her pistol out of her knitting bag and laid it on the table! The staunchly anti-gun widow was shocked, to say the least. Now she can't feel safe in a knitting store!
Dixie Knits

March 19, 2018, 12:42 PM

JALLEN

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Originally posted by cne32507:
My wife’s liberal friend lost her husband last month and is slowly returning to her former active social life. Her latest step was to touch base with the women who hang around a downtown knitting store, knitting and chatting. As the Parkland shooting was on everyone’s mind, the conversation turned to firearms. Two of the knitters said they owned guns and one casually pulled her pistol out of her knitting bag and laid it on the table! The staunchly anti-gun widow was shocked, to say the least. Now she can't feel safe in a knitting store!
Dixie Knits

Might she not be safer now?

Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown

March 19, 2018, 02:39 PM

cne32507

Of course she is safer; but with liberals it's all about feelings.

March 19, 2018, 03:18 PM

Woodman

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Originally posted by cne32507: ... one casually pulled her pistol out of her knitting bag and laid it on the table ...

Bobbed hammer DAO revolver? Striker-fired Kahr?

Inquiring minds want to know, what is her preferred firearm?

March 19, 2018, 03:36 PM

henryarnaud

March 19, 2018, 03:42 PM

V-Tail

They are late to the party. SIGforum has had our own pistol packing knitter for years.

March 19, 2018, 05:34 PM

maladat

I have a carry license and I can knit and crochet.

(I'm not the one V-Tail is talking about, though.

)

March 19, 2018, 07:15 PM

cne32507

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Originally posted by Woodman:
quote:
Originally posted by cne32507: ... one casually pulled her pistol out of her knitting bag and laid it on the table ...

Bobbed hammer DAO revolver? Striker-fired Kahr?

Inquiring minds want to know, what is her preferred firearm?

My wife didn't ask, she was gasping from holding in the laughter. This is the same woman who virtue signaled about her new Prius back during W's invasion of Iraq. My wife topped her by saying she wanted to get a Hum Vee with a top mount Ma Deuce.

I hope it was the same revolver my sister carries: DAO S&W Chief's Special with integral laser.

March 19, 2018, 07:27 PM

brecaidra

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
They are late to the party. SIGforum has had our own pistol packing knitter for years.

Thanks for the shout-out.

I wouldn't pull out my firearm and lay it on the table in front of everyone, but it astounds me how some people are so scared when they find out that you carry. You don't feel safe anymore? Did you feel safe before you knew? Guess what, I've been carrying around you for years.

In my experience, the vast majority of knitters are anti-gun and are the type to talk about how awful it is that anyone can walk into a gun show or store and buy fully auto weapons that can spray death across a room with the press of a trigger, and nobody needs big capacity magazines, and Britain doesn't have any crime, and... well, you get the idea. Yet one more way I'm a minority.

March 19, 2018, 07:46 PM

Icabod

After 9/11 didn't the security guards at an airport, take away a older woman's knitting needles, because they were afraid she was going to knit an afghan!

March 19, 2018, 07:57 PM

PeteF

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Originally posted by Icabod:
After 9/11 didn't the security guards at an airport, take away a older woman's knitting needles, because they were afraid she was going to knit an afghan!

They have been doing this since at least the 90s. They confiscated my moms knitting needles

March 19, 2018, 08:01 PM

V-Tail

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Originally posted by brecaidra:
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Originally posted by V-Tail:
They are late to the party. SIGforum has had our own pistol packing knitter for years.
Thanks for the shout-out.

You betcha. I am proud to "know" you, even though it is only electronically.

March 19, 2018, 08:09 PM

ArtieS

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Originally posted by brecaidra:
...fully auto weapons that can spray death across a room with the press of a trigger...

I always thought that was a feature, not a bug. Knit on!

"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."

Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.

March 19, 2018, 09:18 PM

maladat

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Originally posted by PeteF:
quote:
Originally posted by Icabod:
After 9/11 didn't the security guards at an airport, take away a older woman's knitting needles, because they were afraid she was going to knit an afghan!

They have been doing this since at least the 90s. They confiscated my moms knitting needles

At least in the last few years, knitting needles are not prohibited by TSA policy.

I have flown several round trips with aluminum knitting needles in my carry-on.

The list of prohibited items is just stupid. I keep a hardcore pair of Klein electrician's scissors in my carry-on that you could hammer through a car door with a brick, but a tiny Swiss army knife is a national security threat.

March 19, 2018, 11:21 PM

flashguy

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Originally posted by PeteF:
quote:
Originally posted by Icabod:
After 9/11 didn't the security guards at an airport, take away a older woman's knitting needles, because they were afraid she was going to knit an afghan!

They have been doing this since at least the 90s. They confiscated my moms knitting needles

Well, there was an NCIS episode where a guy was killed with a knitting needle while sitting on the toilet.

flashguy

March 20, 2018, 10:32 AM

SIG 229R

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Originally posted by JALLEN:
quote:
Originally posted by cne32507:
My wife’s liberal friend lost her husband last month and is slowly returning to her former active social life. Her latest step was to touch base with the women who hang around a downtown knitting store, knitting and chatting. As the Parkland shooting was on everyone’s mind, the conversation turned to firearms. Two of the knitters said they owned guns and one casually pulled her pistol out of her knitting bag and laid it on the table! The staunchly anti-gun widow was shocked, to say the least. Now she can't feel safe in a knitting store!
Dixie Knits

Might she not be safer now?

Exactly my thought!

March 20, 2018, 04:01 PM

brecaidra

For awhile many knitters were reporting that they were allowed circular needles on flights but not straight needles which doesn't make sense. Sure, you could stab someone with a straight, but you could totally garrote someone with circulars.