Concealed Carry (NA) - humorous anecdote

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A guy cruises thru a stop sign and gets pulled over by a local policeman. Guy hands the cop his driver's license, insurance verification, plus his concealed carry permit.

"Okay, Mr. Smith," the cop says, "I see your CCW permit. Are you car...rying today?"

"Yes, I am."

"Well then, better tell me what you got."

Smith says, "Well, I got a .357 revolver in my inside coat pocket. There's a 9mm semi-auto in the glove box. And I've got a .22 magnum derringer in my right boot."

"Okay," the cop says. "Anything else?"

"Yeah, back in the trunk, there's an AR15 and a shotgun. That's about it."

"Mr. Smith, are you on your way to or from a gun range...?"

"Nope."

"Well then, what are you afraid of...?"

"Not a damn thing..."
 
I've been stopped while concealing multiple weapons before and the officers have been nothing but professional - nor have they asked me why I had them.

I just inform them I'm a conceal and carry permit holder and I'm carrying. I'm careful to keep my hands on the steering wheel and to ask them before I move them. They appreciate it.
 
jesse said:
I've been stopped while concealing multiple weapons before and the officers have been nothing but professional - nor have they asked me why I had them.

I just inform them I'm a conceal and carry permit holder and I'm carrying. I'm careful to keep my hands on the steering wheel and to ask them before I move them. They appreciate it.
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Along those lines, I've been pulled over 3x. I had my documents out on the dash before the policeman got to the car and my hands on the wheel as Jesse describes. When he asked for the papers, just hand them over. I never got a ticket.

I don't CCW, but I actually feel safer because of it. I'd like that stores (besides Cabelas) allowed CCW since a mall shooter wouldn't be one for long.
 
When I took my first CHL class in Texas back in the 90's.. we held it in the lounge at Houston Gulf Airport before going to a nearby range.

One of the two instructors was a tall, lanky fellow wearing boots, jeans, and a denim jacket. Over the course of the class he removed 10 handguns from his clothing (casually, one at a time, while instructing the class). After about the 3rd one, it would result in a chuckle or laugh from the group.

He later told us about once getting pulled over for speeding while on the way to teach class... and when he presented the CHL to the officer, and when asked where his weapon was, said "the loaded one is in a shoulder holster... but there are quite a few others.."

I'm sure it made the officer's day..
 
I'm a CHL holder and got pulled over about 6 months ago in my pickup at a highway checkpoint where the locals were looking for someone on foot who busted out of the county jail. The guys were very polite, asked me to step out of the truck (I did), asked about my weapons status (one on me, 7 in the truck), ran a dog around the truck about 30 seconds, made some envious comments about my AR15 on the back seat, and turned me loose. 3 minutes, in and out.

Everytime I've presented my CHL to an officer I've been treated courteously and respectfully, as I treat them. For the most part they recognize that we are not a threat to them if we are willing to go through the legal steps to carry, it tells them we are not part of their "target market". The only exception I've ever seen was a young rookie cop out trying to prove himself, and his ride-along supervisor told him to "stand-down" as he was giving me the 3rd degree about why I felt it necessary to carry a firearm.
 
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For those of you in the LA area, you may understand this. I lived in Wilmington at Newmark's Marina and worked at LGB, this takes me through a very sketchy neighborhood. Driving home I'm at the last intersection where I turn right at the Henry Ford Bridge, and all one can do at this intersection is turn right since the bridge is always up unless a train is crossing and to the left the road is fenced off leading to the old Ford plant, so as usual I roll through the Stop sign in my 65 Volvo P1800. Lo and behold there was a cop there who pulled me over. "Where are you going?" "Home" "Where's home?" "See the tallest set of masts down there?" "Yep" "That's home." "You mind if I look in your car?" "No problem, but be aware, there's a loaded Browning HyPower next to the seat, it is chambered, hammer down and safety off. It is registered to me and I have the registration in my wallet." and I got out of the car. He gives a look through the car and says, "You know it's illegal to carry that gun in your car in that condition?" "Yes I do sir." "Then why do you do it?" "I live here and work at the Long Beach Airport, would you let your family make that drive unarmed?" "Not a chance" "Well then you know why I do." He didn't even write me a ticket for running the stop sign.
 
I normally never post or forward anything I get in an email, but I thought you guys would enjoy this.

Even if Admiral Yamamoto didn’t actually say this, it is nevertheless true. Se non è vero, è ben trovato:

You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.

I received this amusing piece via e-mail:

The state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting season without someone getting killed. That’s great. There were over 600,000 hunters. Allow me to restate that number. Over the last two months, the eighth largest army in the world – more men under arms than Iran; more than France and Germany combined – deployed to the woods of a single American state to help keep the deer menace at bay. But that pales in comparison to the 750,000 who are in the woods of Pennsylvania this week. Michigan ‘s 700,000 hunters have now returned home. Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia , and it is literally the case that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world. America will forever be safe from foreign invasion of troops with that kind of home-grown firepower.

Hunting – it’s not just a way to fill the freezer. It’s a matter of national security!
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Fun, but I'd like to have substantiation of those numbers.

And Henning, WTF were you doing driving a P1800??????????????? Don't give me that "It was a really sporty car, really" BS.
 
airguy said:
The only exception I've ever seen was a young rookie cop out trying to prove himself,
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I'm not sure what they train them to do in that circumstance. I was stopped
a while back for speeding. I wasn't paying attention the speed limit dropped
and I was. The cop was a younger guy and when he came up to the truck I got out my DL and CCW permit and told him I had a handgun in the car and where it was located. He says "oh .. what kind is it?" I told him a 9mm HK
USP Compact. "Cool .. I've got an HK 45" Me ... how do you like it? "Him ..
I love it." Then he says "I should probably take control of that handgun during the stop". So I told him it was loaded, chambered and the safety
on and gave it to him". When he brought it back he said "nice gun".
He explained to me about how to do STOP class and have the ticket go away. The next day his supervisor called me for quality control and wanted to know how he did and how the interaction went. I told him the officer was polite and professional and would do a good job.

Now contrast that with a couple older officers I've encountered when I've
been in a couple accidents that weren't my fault. Their only comments were
"ok .. .thanks for telling me."

RT
 
Up until the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union became just plain Russia again, I used to do an annual clipping of the front page of the November 14 Detroit Free Press where they always had a large article about the half million deer hunters hitting the woods the next morning armed to the teeth with high power rifles and telescopic sights, for the start of Michigan deer season...

I would take a large maker and print in the margin, "And there are 47 more states just like us!" Then I would put the piece of newspaper in a manila envelope and mail it to the USSR Embassy in Washington, DC... Funny thing, I did that every year for a couple of decades and never got so much as a post card in return thanking me for the information...
Some people's kids have no manners!

denny-o
 
RogerT said:
I'm not sure what they train them to do in that circumstance. I was stopped
a while back for speeding. I wasn't paying attention the speed limit dropped
and I was. The cop was a younger guy and when he came up to the truck I got out my DL and CCW permit and told him I had a handgun in the car and where it was located. He says "oh .. what kind is it?" I told him a 9mm HK
USP Compact. "Cool .. I've got an HK 45" Me ... how do you like it? "Him ..
I love it." Then he says "I should probably take control of that handgun during the stop". So I told him it was loaded, chambered and the safety
on and gave it to him". When he brought it back he said "nice gun".
He explained to me about how to do STOP class and have the ticket go away. The next day his supervisor called me for quality control and wanted to know how he did and how the interaction went. I told him the officer was polite and professional and would do a good job.

Now contrast that with a couple older officers I've encountered when I've
been in a couple accidents that weren't my fault. Their only comments were
"ok .. .thanks for telling me."

RT
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I've been stopped at least 3 times that I can think of while concealing a handgun. Twice in Nebraska and one in Missouri. None of the cops had an issue and they certainly didn't want to take possession of my handgun. IMO it's more unsafe to be handing a firearm around unnecessarily but if that's what they want then I suppose you must comply.

I had multiple firearms during the Missouri stop. When the officer asked for my insurance information I told him that there was a loaded pistol on top of it in the glove box. He just said nevermind and didn't even want me to get my insurance out from underneath a loaded pistol.
 
jesse said:
When the officer asked for my insurance information I told him that there was a loaded pistol on top of it in the glove box. He just said nevermind and didn't even want me to get my insurance out from underneath a loaded pistol.
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Now there is a new concept to 'save' on car insurance :wink2: .
 
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