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Concealed Handgun Permit Question

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armed and humorous:
I would not leave my guns in the open in my locked vehicle.  However, they can be concealed without being in a separate lockable compartment like a glovebox.  Many newer vehicles have numeruous storage compartments for things that don't lock.  I don't want to have to put my gun in the glove box, which I can't even reach from the driver seat, just so it can be double locked.  If someone can get into the passenger compartment of my truck when it's locked, they can damn sure get into the glove box, locked or not.

I was not sure about open carry in a bank, but couldn't find anything prohibiting it as a general rule anyway, so you're probably right about that.

I suppose the glovebox thing is just one more of those "depends on how the officer, jury, judge, decides to interpret it" things.  I'm not too worried about it because no one's going to know if there's a gun in my truck or not unless I did leave it in the open (which, by the way would not be illegal anywhere else and perhaps not even on posted property depending on how you interpret the law).  I agree, it would be stupid.  Even before CHP, when I carried my gun on the dash or seat while I was driving so it wouldn't be concealed, I put it out of sight when I left the vehicle.  Then again, that's one of those things you'd have to be careful about.  If you came back from the post office, for example, got into your vehicle, and then pulled your gun from the glovebox or under the seat while a cop happened to be watching.  They could conceivably say you had a concealed weapon, even though it was only for a few seconds when you got into the car.

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