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Concealed Carry and contact with Law Enforcement
HuskerXDM:
Would this, per chance, be the officer who spoke to the Well Armed Woman group last night?
--- Quote from: NE Bull on July 18, 2014, 06:40:31 PM ---I heard today that a local LEO told a local Firearms Group that it is MANDATORY that you disclose you CCW right away, whether or not you are carrying at the time.
I know we all have differing opinions on this. I for one let them know either way, just to not have any hassle. BUT does the law state as such? Maybe we should get a opinion from the AG? settle this once and for all?
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NE Bull:
Maybe.. my source wishes to remain anonymous, so..
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Dan W:
I suggest that the group call out the LEO... send him a bunch of emails and tell him he needs to get trained up
Gary:
Opinion: in a traffic stop, there is a magical point where the officer is on the fence as to whether he likes you or not. He hits you with buzz word tests to compartmentalize you into nice neat mental boxes.
Once you fail one test, no matter how small, you are on his ticket book, and not on his warning book, or verbal warning book.
One thing that gets tested is honestly and beyond that, openness.
If you have a CHP, and do not desclose that in the first chat moments, carrying or not, you go from the on the fence area, to someone that does not disclose things.
It is your right to not disclose a CHP permit if you have no gun concealed on your person, but it his his right to give you a deserved ticket if you have one coming.
I think if a person goes out of their way to work with LEOs, they will be willing to work with us. In this case, the OP got a ticket, and I would suggest this is going to be the usual outcome of not volunteering the CHP.
The officers have a hard job, and if we make them feel a bit more at ease, it is better for them, and us. Showing your CHP, instantly lets them know you have passed an FBI background check and should be no threat to their safety.
Each officer has a family, and at the end of a shift, they want to go home to them. Your CHP permit takes stress out of the traffic stop, and makes their job easier.
OnTheFly:
--- Quote from: Gary on July 19, 2014, 01:54:31 PM ---Showing your CHP, instantly lets them know you have passed an FBI background check and should be no threat to their safety.
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I would have to disagree. If the LEO finds out through their dispatch that you have a CHP, are you NOW considered a threat? How does notifying the LEO even if not carrying change a person's honesty, or the fact that they went through an FBI background check? Either way, that person is a law abiding citizen. If they inquire as to whether you are carrying, a polite "No sir/ma'am/officer. I know that if I am carrying, I am obligated to inform you, and I definitely would do that." should suffice. If a LEO finds out that you have a CHP and have jumped through all the hoops an individual is required to just so they can exercise this constitutional right, why would this give them cause to be uncomfortable. If this is the mindset they have, then they need some reeducation.
If the difference of getting a ticket or a warning is not following the law, but living by their personal standards, then the problem is not us. It is how they look at us.
--- Quote from: Gary on July 19, 2014, 01:54:31 PM ---Your CHP permit takes stress out of the traffic stop, and makes their job easier.
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I don't think this statement is false, but how we are treated shouldn't change due to the manner in which they find out we have a CHP.
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