I just wanted to share my overwhelmingly positive CCW experience.
After dropping off a friend Wednesday night, I was pulled over by a local Lexington police officer. I was driving my wife's car, and a headlight had burned out. He pulled me over and asked for my license and insurance, which I politely provided.
He returned after five or six minutes of checking me/the car on the patrol car's computer, and explained why he had stopped me. He returned my license and insurance card, and told me that my CCW had come up when he ran my license (Kentuckians are not required to notify police unless asked). He asked if I was armed. I responded that I was. He asked where the gun was, and I responded that it was in a pancake holster on my right hip.
For the entirety of this part of our conversation I kept my hands on the steering wheel.
He asked me to produce the pistol, butt first. I complied. He removed the magazine and cleared the chamber, then examined the gun. (I carry an older Belgian Browning Hi-Power). He asked how I liked the pistol, how accurate was it, how reliable, and so on. We talked handguns for five or six minutes. At the end of our conversation he handed me the pistol - butt first, the loose round, and the magazine and told me to have a good evening.
He was incredibly pleasant and polite.
I've read several threads here about other LEOs being short with carriers, and I've often wondered how the police would handle me when I eventually got stopped while carrying, but this officer was the opposite of what I've often read about.
KR