Check Pepper Spray or Buy New?

No, I doiubt any of us are saying not to travel, but rather, make travel plans that do not compromise your ability to secure/protect yourself w/in the limits of the local law.

If you are vacationing in sin city, that’s your business, of course, but you are asking about a menas to protect yourself and we are stating the obvious-if you cannot protect yourself, then why go there? Pepper spray? Really? Obviously you are thinking about risk, no?

I think there are more transport/possession restrictions on such non-lethal devices/concoctions than there are on firearms.

I ask again, why not just familiarize with NV laws, secure your CC arm of choice in checked luggage and carry within the extent of NV law (if you have a reciprocal CCW card from your home state).

Too easy.

I travel quite a bit (by road mostly now a days, but even if on company business, what I stow in my baggage is of no concern to my employer. I carry at conventions, events at civilian locations etc, and just secure my arm when entering a DOD/USG facility-declaring it only if asked. My boss always wonders why I elect to rent my own vehicle at my own expense.

“...when entering a DOD/USG facility-declaring it only if asked...”

What DOD/USG facilities permit entry after you have declared it, unless you say you are going to a range or to turn it over to the military police for safekeeping during your visit?

As a professional courtesy I have never had a MP/SP station fail to secure it in it’s locked case while I conduct business. I am not a LEO etc.

As amazed as some folks are, possession of a legal arm on a base by a person with cause to be there is not a violation unless specifically stated in post/installation regs.

For example, the midwest installation I work on clearly does not ask if one is armed, it assumes that if one has an arm, it is stowed per post reg. If it is not, then it is potentially a problem, but the reg allows an unloaded weapon to be simply locked in the truck (or lockable case if not a sedan etc) to satify requiremnt. Other places vary-know in advance!

Criminal activity has been on the decline for decades but too many believe you take your life into your own hands when you go to the big city.

I'm actually more worried about drunken louts than people trying for my wallet, which is why I'd rather incapacitate them with a spray than kill them with a bullet. That Ebay stun gun idea is a good one also, I'll have to look into that.

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