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You Carry Every Day. Do You Know What to do if You’re Pulled Over?
Bearing Arms ^ | 9 Jul, 2016 | Jenn Jacques

Posted on 07/10/2016 7:39:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber

It’s happened to most of us – some more than others. You’re driving down the highway or a backroad or maybe you roll through a stop sign one too many times, and here they come. The flashing lights, the piercing sound of the siren. It’s nerve-racking, to say the least.

With so much tension surrounding recent officer-involved shootings, I feel a duty to open the discussion on what to do when legal gun owners either open or concealed carrying are pulled over by police.

No matter what state you find yourself in, national firearms expert and trainer Massad Ayoob explains there is a universal way to inform the officer you’re carrying: hand your concealed carry permit over with your drivers license.

(Excerpt) Read more at bearingarms.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: 2a; ayoob; banglist; ccw
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To: Hazwaste

“Someone responded that the best thing to do when pulled over when carrying is to jump out of the car waving your hands wildly and shouting “I got a gun! I got a gun!” :)”

That was then, this is now: “Hands Up Don’t Shoot! Oink, oink.”


41 posted on 07/10/2016 8:11:33 AM PDT by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% red.)
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To: MtnClimber
This has happened to me twice. First thing out of my mouth is "before we go any further, I need to advise you that I have a concealed handgun permit and I AM carrying today".

In both cases, the cops' response was something like, "oh, ok. Thanks for telling me."

One of them was curious about what I was carrying. When I told him I was carrying a Glock 27, we got into a friendly conversation about Glocks and what our opinions were about the best guns for concealed carry. Then he gave me a warning to slow down, and told me to have a nice day. That was in Wytheville, Virginia.

Probably wouldn't have gone that way in New Yawk or New Joisee...

42 posted on 07/10/2016 8:11:56 AM PDT by Kenton
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To: Jaxter

If a cop takes your gun to “check it” BINGO ... it’s just been registered


43 posted on 07/10/2016 8:12:26 AM PDT by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: Cobra64

So what. Those NC law enforcement sheriff’s department officers don’t have shit for jurisdiction here in Georgia.

MY classes were taught by the Chiefs of GEORGIA police Sheriff’s departments.

If I ever have to go to SC then I guess I’ll just have to pussy up and play wimp to them then.


44 posted on 07/10/2016 8:13:04 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Jaxter

“In my 50 years of driving I have been stopped for moving violations maybe a dozen times. “


I’ve been driving 65 years and have only been stopped twice.

What am I doing wrong? :-)

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45 posted on 07/10/2016 8:13:45 AM PDT by Mears (Afrocentrism is "the invention of tradition"-----Hobsbawm)
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To: MtnClimber

This is all nice, but the best way to be safe carrying during a stop is to be courteous when the officer initiates contact. You don’t have to agree with him, but let him know you are not a threat and he can conduct his business without calling for additional officers. Usually yelling, “What the F*ck did you stop me for,” before he reaches your car will cause him to become concerned. Yelling, cursing, demanding you know your rights, and informing him he can’t tell you what to do, is another good way to make a cop raise his guard. As noted in most of the posts so far on this topic, Freepers that were at least business-like courteous, found the officer to be the same.


46 posted on 07/10/2016 8:16:53 AM PDT by Yogafist
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To: Tupelo
Why are there not daily police shootings in Constitutional Carry states?

In Vermont, (a Constitutional Carry state) 75% of the population own firearms. Vermont is 94% white. There are approximately two firearms homicides a year in Vermont, population 635,000.

47 posted on 07/10/2016 8:18:12 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (I'm not a smug know-it-all; I just want you to experience epistemological closure.)
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To: MtnClimber

So the carry permit is coordinated with the drivers’ license. Seems to me they never told us about this.

Too bad they never bothered to try to locate illegal guns in the hands of violent criminals.


48 posted on 07/10/2016 8:18:45 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Yogafist

Chris Rock was all over this.


49 posted on 07/10/2016 8:19:10 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (I'm not a smug know-it-all; I just want you to experience epistemological closure.)
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To: Jumper

Happened to me @ 3 weeks ago. Both hands out the window with registration and license in hand. I informed the Female officer that I was carrying. She thanked me and let me go without even a written warning.

Respect for the law goes a long way.


50 posted on 07/10/2016 8:21:43 AM PDT by Man from Oz
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To: Gaffer

By the way GA law does not restrict a police officer from asking you if you are carrying a weapon and if its loaded. You do not have to initiate the conversation. If asked you need to need to provide the information. No cop in the world is going to tell a private citizen to say “none you need to be concerned about”. Cops are always concerned about weapons in cars. With good reason.


51 posted on 07/10/2016 8:24:20 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Your demeanor has a great deal to do with interacting with law enforcement.

Yep!

Even though I run the Jack Booted Thug ping list, I am invariably polite and respectful to LEOs, and they are almost invariably polite and respectful back. The one that wasn't was only a little snarky. OTOH, I'd just totaled two cars by sliding on ice and snow...

52 posted on 07/10/2016 8:28:14 AM PDT by null and void (Has there ever been a death associated with the Clintons that *wasn't* beneficial to them?)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

That is patently not true. Look up the law. If there is CCW involved they cannot ask you that.


53 posted on 07/10/2016 8:29:14 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: CodeToad
Then he needs to shut up and stop writing about them.

Or at lease note that laws vary state-to-state.

54 posted on 07/10/2016 8:30:33 AM PDT by null and void (Has there ever been a death associated with the Clintons that *wasn't* beneficial to them?)
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To: Gaffer

“MY classes were taught by the Chiefs of GEORGIA police Sheriff’s departments”

The Sheriff is the “chief” of each county Sheriff’s Dept. Each county holds its own type unique classes on CCW. Rabun County just had one recently. They had the Sheriff the Asst to the Chief of Police of Clayton and a state rep. They only care about the GA state law and how they do things in Rabun county not Habersham or White etc.


55 posted on 07/10/2016 8:32:50 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: null and void

He’s sloppy like that. Always has been.


56 posted on 07/10/2016 8:33:14 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: goodnesswins

I stopped carrying a wallet years ago. A money clip is more compact and simpler and one doesn’t need to carry much around in a wallet anymore, and of course a wallet is an easily spotted target for pickpockets while a money clip in the front pocket not so much.


57 posted on 07/10/2016 8:36:18 AM PDT by thoughtomator ("... and if a million more agree, there ain't no Great Society")
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Clearly you need more refugees to get your statistics up.


58 posted on 07/10/2016 8:38:13 AM PDT by null and void (Has there ever been a death associated with the Clintons that *wasn't* beneficial to them?)
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To: Gaffer
You need only answer “not any that you need be concerned about.’

I'm thinking that would not go over very well. Coming across as a smart-ass rarely ends well during a traffic stop.

59 posted on 07/10/2016 8:38:15 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Did you get pears?)
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To: Hazwaste

Is there a YT video of that yet? LOL!


60 posted on 07/10/2016 8:40:05 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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