There are other CCW forums on Lemmy, but none on discuss.online, which is a US-based Lemmy instance. Since the US has the most permissive concealed-carry laws for the largest number of people, it seemed like a better instance for a group like this than lemmy.world, which is hosted in the EU AFAIK.

I would really like this group to avoid politics-based argument. I’m happy to add links in the sidebar to groups that encourage this, though - please just contact me to add one. I don’t want to be too specific about that that means, but if it gets too noisy or rude I’ll ask people to take it to a more appropriate forum.

I’m a regular reader of the /r/CCW forum on reddit (liked in the sidebar). I created this one because:

• I think we need a backup, in case Reddit shuts it down for any reason
• Lemmy is a better experience, without a bunch of ads always in your face
• There already were a couple of CCW groups on other instances, but nothing on the largest US-based instance (which is this one), so I know there is some interest in the subject here

I’ll get things going with a couple of other posts shortly, and pimp this group in the appropriate places on Lemmy. I’m not sure about promoting it on reddit (I suspect that Reddit polices any Lemmy links) - I’ll ask the /r/CCW mods what they’re comfortable with, if anythting.