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Nothing wrong with that. Leaving your gun in the vehicle might help too if your asked to step outside.
You know I disagree with you here. For me a rule with no penalty whatsoever ceases to be a rule. However, I now believe it is best to inform the LEO on a stop. Recent encounter with DPS "wind farm patrol" changed my position.
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I agree, there is nothing an officer caan legally do; however, the rule remains. I tend to follow rules, especially when the seem to benefit me.
For his safety? It's for his power trip. I would get out of the car for him, but I would be pissed if he ejected every round and put them in his pocket. What a tool.
He didn't even know how to lock the slide back on a gun that is basically a clone of his duty gun. Yet another reason to protect yourself.
He didn't even know how to lock the slide back on a gun that is basically a clone of his duty gun. Yet another reason to protect yourself.
txinvestigator
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Don't have a CHL, don't carry on my person, but I keep a loaded pistol and spare magazine in the center console.
Any time I've been pulled over I grab my insurance card before the officer approaches my car. I keep the license in my wallet and wait to get it out until he asks for it. That way I don't seem to be fidgeting in my car too much before he's approached me. I've never informed an officer I have a loaded weapon in the car, but I've also never been asked if I had any weapons. They have asked me about drugs once, but probably because I'd been smoking cigars that night and my car had a nice odor to it. That was a little hard to explain, luckily I had all the plastic cigar wrappers, my cutter, and my lighters and I produced all of them to his satisfaction.
Any time I've been pulled over I grab my insurance card before the officer approaches my car. I keep the license in my wallet and wait to get it out until he asks for it. That way I don't seem to be fidgeting in my car too much before he's approached me. I've never informed an officer I have a loaded weapon in the car, but I've also never been asked if I had any weapons. They have asked me about drugs once, but probably because I'd been smoking cigars that night and my car had a nice odor to it. That was a little hard to explain, luckily I had all the plastic cigar wrappers, my cutter, and my lighters and I produced all of them to his satisfaction.
What's " wind farm patrol"? Do they have DPS patroling the Wind Turbins around Austin of somethin? I never seen them do that around here.
LilIrishTemper
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I just tell them to keep a 5 minute traffic stop from turning into a 30 minute traffic stop. Hence, I do have a Fla. CHL with a Texas address, a Tennessee DL and a car registered in TX. Which just screams "WTF?" to a LEO.
But I've still never had one do anything like that.
But I've still never had one do anything like that.
That seems fine and dandy, but do you really want the officer who just pulled you over or is pulling you over to see you reaching into your console?
That seems like a possible recipe for disaster to me!
IMO: pull over, roll down the window, shut the engine off, and then just sit there with your hands on the top of the wheel until the officer walks up.
And that's my personal preference. I'm with TI on the dubiousness of some of the advice on this forum.
Do it without the condescending tone. It's not necessary.
Actually, some of the people I know with CHL do that as soon as they get in the vehicle. The way they carry seems to cause them uncomfort while sitting in the car seat. A gun in the console is still accessible if you need it. If a cop ask's you to step out of the vehicle, it'll still be their when he's done with ya. I tried concealing a holstered 1911 while driving to the range one time, man I dont know how you guys put up with it. The seatbelt was all messed up, the gun was poking me, and it was simlpy a PITA. It took it off and put it in the console.
I cant even stand having a wallet in my posket, much less a gun stuffed somewhere. The less I have on me, the happier I am. In the summer I work in my shop with nothin but shorts and boots on.
Ah. That makes way more sense. And it sounds like your wallet is as stupid thick as mine!
...coulda done without that image though.
yea, its mostly full from all the other tickets I got. Gotta keep the payment copies in there too. Just in case some idiot didnt record it being payed, that happend a lot around here for a while.
In this case the cop was the one that unloaded the mag. He put the rounds in his pocket. There comes a point where the cop's authoritarian actions are obviously no longer about "safety". If he asked him out of his car, what threat would a handgun in the console pose? Is it really necessary for him to go into the man's console and eject every round out of the mag? No, it really helped nothing and there was no reason to do it other than to flex his power at a "peon" citizen. This cocksucker should be fired.
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