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 ...
“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.”
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...
If a cop takes your gun to “check it” BINGO ... it’s just been registered
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.
“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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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.
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.
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.
Chris Rock was all over this.
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.
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.
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...
That is patently not true. Look up the law. If there is CCW involved they cannot ask you that.
Or at lease note that laws vary state-to-state.
“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.
He’s sloppy like that. Always has been.
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.
Clearly you need more refugees to get your statistics up.
I'm thinking that would not go over very well. Coming across as a smart-ass rarely ends well during a traffic stop.
Is there a YT video of that yet? LOL!
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