Should I Put An Nra Sticker On My Car

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I'd like to show I'm a proud Life Member of the NRA, but I'chiliad not sure if information technology'south a skilful thought to tip my hand to the bad guys that I'1000 probably carrying.
But maybe that's a proficient affair to permit them know so they pass me by?

Whatever opinions?
IMHO it makes your car a break-in target equally there may be a gun.
We hash out this every few months.
The conventional wisdom is "no, don't advertise."

The counter points are, a) "I'd rather they knew to go bother someone else," and b) "I like to show my support for RKBA and identify with other like-minded folks."

And the applied reality is there are A LOT of NRA stickers on a LOT of cars out there.

There'southward really no answer. Do whichever feels right to yous.
I like the fact that it's like chiliad to i, if not more, people are NRA members and don't have stickers, for reasons given. Generally speaking it depends where y'all live. In urban liberal loony land, people volition deface your sticker or damage your motorcar, and worse, the ever present criminal chemical element will come across your car/home as a target WHEN Yous ARE Away. In rural USA, well all your neighbors accept multiple guns and likely are NRA members. If not, get to know them and accept them join.
An NRA sticker advertises to the globe that you lot likely have a $500 handgun nether the seat. I wouldn't do it.
I think information technology depends on where you live and where y'all exit your vehicle parked. I have an NRA sticker on my truck, just don't on the wifes auto. Nosotros normally drive the car on trips out of land, and so I similar to remain incognito. Yet around my part of Tennessee every other vehicle has an NRA sticker on it and other stickers that offend liberals. But I still remember about parking in public areas and try to keep my truck in highly visible areas.
It'due south probably ok when your in your car but not when information technology's parked and lonely. Makes it a target.
I trim off the outer ring of the NRA sticker where the wording is. What I'm left with is the red circle with the eagle and rifles.
I've had one of those trimmed stickers on the back of my cars for at least 9 years direct. I live in a big urban center and travel all kinds of places for work. So far, not a single issue due to the sticker.

It's most like no one but NRA members know what the NRA logo looks like without the diction to go with information technology.
Even if I were inclined to employ window or bumper stickers to my vehicles, I would non include annihilation of a potentially dramatically polarizing/emotional nature ... and I believe that annihilation firearms-related would have the secondary downside of potentially increasing my chances of the vehicle beingness targeted for burglary.
FWIW, JMO.
I have had an NRA membership sticker in my truck window for manner over a decade now with no negative repercussions. And one in the window of the machine I owned earlier the truck, again over a decade, and nothing.
FWIW, the truck has a Christian fish on the tailgate and I had a Ceolocanth Pro Shop window sticker for years with no negative repercussions either one.

Sometimes we worry besides much. I saw a lady buying two door signs of the "protected by S&Due west" and "nothing here worth dying over" variety with a fist property a revolver; I was tempted to ask if she even had a gun at dwelling, simply decided that would be (a) rude and (b) none of my business. My landlord had left a "Trespassers will be shot; survivors shot once more" sticker on the dorsum door of the flat I lived in for ten years; never was burgled, so not a large deal.

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I don't know how long I have been a fellow member of NRA merely I have had a sticker on at least i vehicle every day since and accept never had a trouble, advantage, woo-hoo, horn honk, cussing out, or anything related to the sticker. I live in what is a pretty urban area so I go to the DMV, Walmart, Tag function and such where you might await to encounter some "inner city personnel" but, as I said, they have never even acted like they saw the sticker.
Put a Bama sticker on and you lot volition get "Roll Tide" 100x per twenty-four hours.
I concur with all those appose whatever form of firearm related stickers on vehicles....for all the reasons others have posted...
I worry more about the sticker prompting a shakedown from a LE stop than a thief or vandal.
Traveling in non gun friendly areas, I'k certain that sticker volition cause boosted questions.
On another note, I thankfully alive in a community where the high school principle has an I'1000 THE NRA sticker on the back window of his truck.
i currently dont have an NRA sticker on my machine........not because its "bad OPSEC" or because im worried about someone breaking in and looking for guns or some crap similar that.....
i dont have one because i dont want some leftist loon to cardinal my motorcar.
Part of why I like having the means to RKBA in the first identify is and so I don't take to live in fear. I really think the concerns are overblown and we need to tell the world that we, the normal folk, have guns.
The best argument I've made for RKBA is when people find out their friend or coworker that they remember highly of (me) is progun, and they recollect if he is pro gun maybe they aren't all Adam Lanza's and abortion clinic shooting rednecks. The common perception in my surface area is that at that place is no good reason to have a gun and that no skillful people have guns. I'm a demonstrably "practiced person" in the conventional sense and it opens people'due south eyes to know that I'm pro gun.

If you lot aren't interested in politics maybe don't put information technology upward, though.
This, even if you don't make a addiction of keeping information technology under your seat that doesnt mean someone won't suspension your window to find out. That's my i and merely concern I would not be concerned for purposes of traffic stops and random interactions.
NRA stickered car vandalism sounds a lot like razor blades in apples- Where is the testify of this happening on any regularity? I've never seen or heard of information technology.
Start page of google for "nra bumpersticker car vandalism news" only turns up hits to other paranoid folks on other forums. Equally far as I can tell it just doesn't happen. Also, this thread is a recurring one, plain.

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Simply put your NRA sticker on a automobile that has ane of those "coexist" stickers on it...
My motorcar has a couple of traditional archery stickers, an American flag sticker, an NRA member sticker and a Primer Martial Arts schoolhouse sticker.
Driving information technology around the "People's Republik of Lawrence" has not caused usa whatsoever trouble...
I've had my NRA stickers on all my automobiles. Never had a break-in, fifty-fifty in my current soft-meridian roadster, which I leave unlocked or top down almost of the time.
The few times I was asked about that sticker was folks confusing it information technology equally the USMC emblem.
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I put whatever I want on my cars, including NRA stickers.

If people really are going to assume you take a gun because you have an NRA sticker, good! They'll probably assault or attempt to victimize somebody else and so.
H no. I don't even wear my NRA hat when off my property. I feel it just brings more attention to me and I like to go along a low profile when out and about. I added the stickers I go from them to my bumpersticker drove which is inside my garage.
Not sure on this one way or the other... but retentivity indicates that at i fourth dimension down here nosotros were all advised to remove any constabulary related decals, signs, etc from our personal vehicles since they were absolutely being targeted in the Miami area. This was during the cocaine cowboy years when I fifty-fifty lost an issued shotgun held in an electro-lock mount in my marked police car -right in front of the Dade county courthouse... and of course the folks I worked for did their all-time to let me know that it was my error.... Nothing like being told just how loftier your status is as a patrolman.....