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Concealed Carry and contact with Law Enforcement
farmerbob:
How about when you pull into a way station and a DOT officer yells from 30 ft. away if I'm loaded, I yell back empty, he waves me through. The whole time I wait for my turn in line with driver license and CHP in hand fully expecting the first thing out of my mouth is I have a CHP and armed, yet all I said was empty.
Some how I feel I just broke the law. (technically, I think I did) But who wants to yell out the fact they have a gun.
To many gray areas in this law, I would personally like the informing while carrying law done away with, after all a LEO job description is more in line with things that are breaking the law not lawful things. This runs along the lines of harassment.
farmerbob:
People who are lawfully carrying a concealed handgun have families and would like to go home to them at the end of the day. I have read several studies lately that have come back with the same findings that people with a CHP are more law abiding than LEO's. (Who really should be worrying about who?)
bullit:
--- Quote from: GreyGeek on August 22, 2014, 11:54:28 AM ---You are carrying.
You walk up to the door of Walmart just as a police cruiser pulls up. You and the officer exchange polite words. You continue into the store. He stops at the "Not an Exit" door in the lobby and knocks for entry.
During the brief conversation would you inform him?
Do you see a need to, since he didn't "stop" you?
--- End quote ---
Only if he needs your assistance in obtaining some .22 LR ..... :)
00BUCK:
Correct me if I am wrong, but the law reads OFFICIAL contact with a LEO - as in they stopped you for some specific reason. Having a chat with a LEO no matter how long doesn't meet the OFFICIAL contact criteria.
OnTheFly:
For the life of me I can't figure out how the obligation to advise makes the LEO safer. I think it is pretty likely that all the reports showing the CHP holders are the most law abiding of society is accurate. But lets say we had a person with a CHP that was a bad person intent on doing bad things to the LEO. Would they inform the LEO that they were carrying? Maybe they would thinking the LEO would drop their guard a little, but I highly doubt it. So what does the requirement gain the LEO?
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