When Elizabeth Brownell, 28, runs errands in her home state of Virginia with her 6-month-old daughter, she has a Lululemon cross-body bag slung across her chest.
Inside the bag is a Glock 43x, a compact gun with a 10-round magazine capacity. On the gun is a trigger guard, which Brownell says makes it safe to carry her daughter on her chest at the same time.
Brownell bought her first gun in 2021 but didn’t start conceal-carrying a weapon until she became a mom. “It wasn’t until I was pregnant that I knew, OK, this world’s a little crazy,” she said. “I would feel a lot more comfortable if I was able to protect myself.”
She worries about both targeted and random violence. What if someone physically attacked her while she was with her baby? What if there was a …