Gun stickers on your car?

[Ronald_55]

I know it is popular to decorate your vehicle with your favorite gun or gun accessories manufacturer stickers. What are your guys' thoughts?

 I avoid it. First it says, there might be a gun to steal in my car. Second, it makes my car more identifiable. 

[bersaguy]

1 minute ago, Ronald_55 said:

I know it is popular to decorate your vehicle with your favorite gun or gun accessories manufacturer stickers. What are your guys' thoughts?

 I avoid it. First it says, there might be a gun to steal in my car. Second, it makes my car more identifiable. 

I only have 1 and it says "Gun Safety means using two hands" on rear glass of my Jeep. Use to have a couple more but as they got old I scraped them off and never replaced them.

[MP5_Rizzo]

We had a similar thread on this last year.

Pro gun decals

[A.J. Holst]

14 minutes ago, Ronald_55 said:

I know it is popular to decorate your vehicle with your favorite gun or gun accessories manufacturer stickers. What are your guys' thoughts?

 I avoid it. First it says, there might be a gun to steal in my car. Second, it makes my car more identifiable. 

No stickers of any kind, including dealer stuff that can removed.

I am a practitioner of under the radar.

My gun safe however, is on the way to being decked out like a hipster's VW bus.

[Johnny Rotten]

My vehicles are sticker free, no one pays me advertisement fees for a rolling billboard. 

[TGO David]

Here's my take on this:

The notion that firearms related "flair" on your car increase the odds of it being broken into, seems to have been around on the Internet since the first gun forum opened its doors.  I've searched the Internet for actual cases where police reported that there was a direct correlation between a car being broken into and the gun stickers on the outside of it, and could only find a few cases where it was suspected.  I've been able to find far more cases where cars were broken into because of the car-audio related stickers on the outside.

This seems to be one of those commonly held truisms that are rooted more in feasibility than actuality.  Sort of like the idea that if you open carry into a convenience store, you're the first guy a robber is going to shoot when he comes in to hold the place up.  Could that happen?  Sure.  But my own experience has been that while open carry is dumb for a variety of other reasons, the majority of folks are so preoccupied with themselves that they rarely notice you.  And I've seen enough surveillance footage to believe that stick-up artists are so nervous and focused on the clerk behind the counter that they're probably not paying too much attention to the guy with the 1911 on his hip at the back of the store browsing the beer cooler.

[TripleGGG]

No stickers of any kind on my truck but I did replace my antenna with a 50caliber bullet antenna. Mainly because I was tired of removing my factory antenna to go through the car wash. 

[Ronald_55]

Personally, I don't have any stickers on mine. I used to have a couple small ones that were not brands. 

I just feel that anything can end up being a negative. Same reason I don't  wear logo clothing. Avoiding attention works for me.

[nightrunner]

I have a TGO sticker on mine only because the vast majority of people think it's just the TN flag logo, it's small, and somewhat inconspicuous.

Otherwise, I see others or a bunch or stickers as just plain tacky.

[Murgatroy]

On my Celica have have a pair of Celicatech Stickers on either quarter window. I have no stickers on my Mustang, Sportster or Work Van. That includes dealer stickers/plate frames.

Celicatech is a family (for orphans like me) that has paid to get members back on the road after catastrophes, including Chaos, my own Celica. So in the sense of I won't wear a label unless they are sponsoring me, Celicatech has sponsored me, and a dozen other Celicas.

[bubbadavis]

I am probably the only Alabama resident with a TGO sticker on his truck (and Jeep for that matter). I guess most people don't have a clue what it represents. That's the only sticker other than the obligatory "if you can read this, turn me over" one on the TJ.

[No_0ne]

When they start paying advertising stipends for stickers, I might consider using my truck as a rolling billboard, depending on just how much they are willing to pay.  This goes double for political stickers ...

[Ronald_55]

2 hours ago, MP5_Rizzo said:

We had a similar thread on this last year.

Pro gun decals

Sorry. I did not remember seeing that one.

[Ray Z]

It's very simple to me. Any gun sticker on a car says [ Break into me first ]

[Dolomite_supafly]

I don't but not because of fears of being broken into. I don't because people are assholes and they will key your car up one side and down the other for having a bumper sticker they don't like.

[Wingshooter]

I don't have any stickers on any of my vehicles. I'm not really concerned about break-in. I just don't like the looks of it. 

[monkeylizard]

@Dolomite_supafly is right. Got gun stickers? An MDA groupie gets out her keys. Got a Trump sticker? Someone wants you to feel the Bern. Shoot, we're so divided today that one of those "I <<heart>> Publix" stickers might bring out a rabid Kroger fan.

Edited August 28, 2017 by monkeylizard

[Omega]

No gun stickers here, mostly because they soon get old and look like poop.  Our unit was advised to have us not put any unit affiliation stickers on our vehicles due to the ISIS hit list,  I didn't have any but I do have a military plate.  I haven't heard of anyone getting any negative attention due to a sticker, military, gun, or political, here in this area.   Clarksville has had a bunch of vehicle break-ins lately (some guns stolen), but if I remember right most were left unlocked.  So to me anyway, criminals are more likely to go for the easy score vs the harder score whether they think it may have a gun or not.

[felinesNfreedom]

I have a black bayou bug jigs (Fishing) sticker on my rear window, the window is tinted and it's hard to see with out looking for it. He sends me free stuff so I don't mind putting his brand on my truck and kayak.

[gregintenn]

I do not care for window stickers, bumper stickers, license plates, etc. I even go so far as to take dealership emblems off my vehicles.

[gjohnsoniv]

I had some on my car for a while that I got from sales reps and whatnot but pulled all of them off. Not getting paid for them so why advertise. Fortunately my car is covert enough to not draw any attention. Those on here who know me get that joke, just have to slap a Hillary/bernie/Green Peace sticker on and I'd be golden. 

[JAB]

The last bumper sticker I put on a vehicle was back in the late '90s.  It had a Confederate battle flag and said, "If the North is so great then why don't you go back?"  I loved it - people who live near Tellico Village (and constantly hear people from the North talk about how the way they do things 'back home' is so much better than the way things are done in Tennessee/the South) would understand why but I have pretty much gotten out of the habit of having bumper stickers.

As an aside, the only person who ever commented to me about that bumper sticker was a guy from Chicago.  He said, "I love your bumper sticker and I feel exactly the same way.  When other people from the North start talking about how they wish this or that was done here the way it is done there I tell them that I moved down here because I wanted to get away from the way things are done there and if they like the way things are done there better then they should move back and not try to screw things here up for the rest of us."

Edited August 28, 2017 by JAB

[Johnny Rotten]

9 hours ago, Omega said:

No gun stickers here, mostly because they soon get old and look like poop.  Our unit was advised to have us not put any unit affiliation stickers on our vehicles due to the ISIS hit list,  I didn't have any but I do have a military plate.  I haven't heard of anyone getting any negative attention due to a sticker, military, gun, or political, here in this area.   Clarksville has had a bunch of vehicle break-ins lately (some guns stolen), but if I remember right most were left unlocked.  So to me anyway, criminals are more likely to go for the easy score vs the harder score whether they think it may have a gun or not.

Would this warrant the Hit List...LOL

2017-08-28_04-36-00 by Johnny Rotten, on Flickr

 

Edited August 28, 2017 by Johnny Rotten

[Omega]

40 minutes ago, Johnny Rotten said:

Would this warrant the Hit List...LOL

2017-08-28_04-36-00 by Johnny Rotten, on Flickr

 

Probably, but I like it.

[10-Ring]

I just have a COEXIST and a I'M WITH HER sticker on my car.  No one suspects that I have a gun, everyone expects that I'm broke so there is no point in breaking into my car, and those that are offended by these stickers are hard working respectful people who don't get offended by stickers and vandalize someone else's stuff.  It's a win/win.