A pleasant run-in with my local police

[General Geoff]

I apologize for the possible thread drift, Kentucky Rifleman, but it is an unfortunate side effect of the logical progression in a discussion about police encounters. The police are enforcers of the law. You can't criticize police without first criticizing the laws they are enforcing.

 

[docsleepy]

Fix the headlight, of course.
Carry spares for headlights, taillights, etc.
Check lights frequently, whenever you/your wife follow each other observe the lights on the other vehicle.
Just helps avoid the encounters!
The less encounters, the betters!

 

[brboyer]

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

Pleasant?
Not the adjective I would choose to describe it.

 

[CSA 357]

i dont see why he would need to see or ask you to look at your pistol? did you ask him to unload his and let you look at his? i was stoped one time and had my 45 under the seat they asked if i had a gun and i told them i did they asked for it and unloaded it then asked for my permit, had to show him how to unload a 1911 cocked and locked! and he asked why the hammer was back! i think it would be better just to leave it under the seat, or in the holster where it is safe and no chance of a ad on the side of the road. csa

 

[801sureshot]

Look, I am a 30ish year old guy with enough tattoos to turn more than a few heads. I have not had so much as a speeding ticket in 10 years. I have my cwp and carry daily to protect myself and my family. In my state we are not required to alert law enforcement to the fact that we are cwp holders. With that in mind and based upon my looks I would choose to alert any leo I was carrying if stopped. For my safety and my families safety I would feel better knowing where we stood rather than having a situation where my looks made the officer uncomfortable and led to me being removed from the vehicle, and God knows where from there. My choice to surrender my rights is based on the fact that people do judge and even with a cwp you never know what that reaction will be. I do have leo friends and this is not an anti post, just reality.