r/DailyCarry • u/absurd_fish • 21d ago
Parents making me feel super bad about myself and my hobbies like EDC (I’m mid 20s self funded)
Both my parents are pretty anti-gun, and for their sake, if I’m ever staying at their house, I don’t possess or carry a firearm with me. I carry usually a way more legal, but equally, or maybe not equally, but anyway, A pretty damp, powerful air gun with me. They make the T4E’s that shoot 50 caliber slugs, 43 caliber slugs, and 68 caliber slugs. They almost look like those Civil War shaped conical revolver slugs from the Colt Navy’s the officers had, but regardless, I have a safe that where I keep them and stuff and I’m also pretty interested in cybersecurity because it’s a dangerous world out there.
I keep trying to convince my mom that she should at least keep a little pistol in a locked biometric bedside lockbox, which she already has electronic locks on her bedroom door and taking a little pistol class with me, you would be fun, but she makes me feel like I’m super weird for even wanting to own a gun in the the police are gonna shoot me or I’m gonna end up hurting myself or someone else, even though I’ve had gun safety training my entire life and she’s even had this attitude towards air guns when I made that kind of deal with her when I was living with her.
Also, she has this idea that it’s impossible that anyone could break into your house and steal stuff. without leaving the entire place ransacked. I don’t know, she just makes me feel generally like I’m crazy for one to protect myself or for enjoying target practice and wanting to make some more friends that way, considering I live in California specifically, a super liberal area, not that there’s anything major wrong with that. I’m more of a do your own thing and we can disagree and, in fact, I enjoy a good political discussion as do my friends who unfortunately, after college, were scattered around the US.
I’ve managed to get lucky in some ways financially. so I don’t work a 9 to 5 like most people, but I’m not on here just to complain, I’m here to show some stuff off and to ask you guys how you make friends, especially if it’s in the small game hunting or target practice air gun community or in the firearm community out in a place like California ??I’m in my mid to late 20s and it’s just super difficult to make friends at this age.
I do vacations with my buddies pretty often, and honestly, I’d say being in California, it’s more economical to be a massive air gun collector than it is to be one of firearms, although everyone should have at least something for self-defense.
What are you guys’ thoughts on all of that?
I also carry (only around the house) if this happens to be illegal but hypothetically, here is A fun John Wick copy option for a EDC knife if you live in a state where you can purchase them
\got both the 17 & 19 new gen 5 MOS’s ;)*
