Yeah this is my costco, I go there all the time. I also CCW in there.
I had no idea Costco was so anti CCW.. but I suspect this was a nervous employee who called the cops and shouted “Man with a gun”
There were reports he was “trashing the store” which I find hard to buy because eye witnesses say the store manager came over the loud speaker and told everyone to evacuate, yet no one knew why. Had the guy been freaking out they would have known.
The other report I heard from a witness of the event, was he just walked out, got shouted at to “drop it” and when he made a move to get the gun out of the holster so he could drop it they opened up on him.
Costco has cameras all over the place at this location.. so it should be interesting to see if we will ever see the videos.
I don’t care what the cops yell at me, if I am carrying and they have their guns pointed at me I will not reach for my gun.
Based on what little info we have this sounds like a case of really terrible LEO training. You never tell someone to "drop it" or "put the gun on the ground" unless it is already in their hand.
Hey, been a while!!
I too am looking forward to the video's....lots of conflicting reports on this one so far.....
“The other report I heard from a witness of the event, was he just walked out, got shouted at to “drop it” and when he made a move to get the gun out of the holster so he could drop it they opened up on him.”
My CHL instructor told us (and it’s firmly embedded in my muscle memory) never to “surrender the weapon” to LE, but to put hands on head and say, “it’s in a holster on my right hip (or wherever). You may retrieve it.” If in a vehicle (we have to show CHL whenever asked for ID in Texas) and LE asks us to give up the weapon, we’re to say, “No, but I’ll step out of the vehicle and you may retrieve it”, since the partner is likely behind the vehicle and may misinterpret our picking up the weapon.
Colonel, USAFR