Being retired from LEO-ing, I will adjust my weapons, based upon the permissiveness of the environment. As an active LEO, I packed quite heavy, during personal time, usually a full-sized duty handgun, often with a secondary five-shot revolver, or, during my most-recent revolver-centric period, 2002-2006, it might be multiple medium-sized revolvers. Nowadays, with no metal badge, and with my honorably-retired ID hidden much more deeply than I carried my police ID, I have to be careful, in several of the environments through which I often move.
I had a notably worrisome moment, already, in one place, where a private citizen, with a carry license, would have been prohibited, and where the LEOSA may well have not covered me. An employee’s eyes went to my hip area, and I could see, in his eyes, that he knew, and he was trying to decide what to say, or do.
In another place, where handguns and weapons were prohibited, indicated by a sign that, itself, had no legal effect, in Texas, but where I could have been made to leave, regardless, if found to be carrying, an employee's eyes were aimed right at where a tailored sport coat was being bulged by a 4” Ruger Speed Six. Nothing wrong with either the weapon, or the sport coat, individually, but the two of them do not play well, together, at least if the sport coat is buttoned.
I had a notably worrisome moment, already, in one place, where a private citizen, with a carry license, would have been prohibited, and where the LEOSA may well have not covered me. An employee’s eyes went to my hip area, and I could see, in his eyes, that he knew, and he was trying to decide what to say, or do.
In another place, where handguns and weapons were prohibited, indicated by a sign that, itself, had no legal effect, in Texas, but where I could have been made to leave, regardless, if found to be carrying, an employee's eyes were aimed right at where a tailored sport coat was being bulged by a 4” Ruger Speed Six. Nothing wrong with either the weapon, or the sport coat, individually, but the two of them do not play well, together, at least if the sport coat is buttoned.