Since I was 15, packing one while riding a bicycle to go squirrel hunting, then just starting carrying one in the car off and on until 3 years in the Corps, then just packed one until I got married and my wife got on my case, local LEO [friends of mine] suggested that I might try just once try and follow the law, so I got a carry card and got my lifetime last year. Off and on for 50 years. Times have changed!