[ExSoldier]

"she remarked one day, "Well, are you going to start selling your guns?"

"I know danger signs when I see them."

My friend, truer words were never spoken! You cannot imagine how many marriages I have seen break up among my friends over the single issue of firearms!

THUS FAR...I'm blessed. My 15th anniversary is in just 21 days. One our first anniversary, my wife got me a rifle...a nice little .22. On our second she got me a reloading press...a Dillon Square Deal. Then she got me a Banana Republic photog vest; this is the uniform of all folks who "carry" in areas that are very warm, like south Florida. If you look closely at the folks who follow the POTUS and other White House brass when they visit the desert, you'll see LOTS of those vests nearby!

She got a little concerned around Y2K when I used it as an "excuse" to go wild and since then I'm pretty much held to a two guns a year verbal agreement...unless I sell a screenplay when all remaining toys will be purchased forthwith!

[Travis McGee]

"My wife said it's either me or the guns.

I'm going to miss the old girl."

[Shooter 2.5]

One of my proudest moments was when she qualified for her M-1.

She had a nice shooting outfit and as women go, she was more concerned how she looked than how she shot. She was shooting a mini-14 and if I would have know about the heat problem with that thing, I would never have offered it to her.

We're going to me married for thirty years except by then, we will have only lived with each other for 24.

That's the way it goes.

I saw a guy at the mall the other day wearing a photographers vest and I just knew he was carrying. Like you said, it's the uniform of the CCW people. I finally convinced a friend he can forget about the vest if he started wearing Hawaiian Shirts. He looks better that way, anyway.

[Eagle Eye]

If you look closely at the folks who follow the POTUS and other White House brass when they visit the desert, you'll see LOTS of those vests nearby!

Yep. Dead giveaway. They're either security or fresh in-country arrivals who think that everyone here wears one. Actually, no one does! 'cept them, of course.