Can an injured person carry a concealed weapon?

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How do they inform the police that YOU had a firearm without also informing the police WHO you are?
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The doctor would not be informing the PD that you are a patient. All kinds of people come and go through hospitals, not just patients.

Doc: "Hello, Sergeant Smith? I work at County General and a man who just entered the building had a pistol fall out of his pants. Could you please come down and retrieve the pistol and investigate the matter? Thank you."

The man could have been an employee, outside vendor, patient, or family member.

As to the OP, I agree with the others: depends on the jurisdiction. I would not like to get caught like that in NYC or DC.
 
In Texas, it's against the law to carry in a hospital with or without a CHL, unless you're LE.
 
Otto: In Texas, it's against the law to carry in a hospital with or without a CHL, unless you're LE.
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So what happens when you're brought in on a gourney unconscious?

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In Texas, it's against the law to carry in a hospital with or without a CHL, unless you're LE.
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Not true anymore. Hospitals and nursing homes (along with churches and amusement parks) now have to give notification under the 30.06 guidelines. See section 46.035, subsection (i).

(i) Subsections (b)(4), (b)(5), (b)(6), and (c) do not apply if the actor was not given effective notice under Section 30.06.
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If I was so inclined, I could subpoena the medical staff as witnesses to make the case. Arrest no problem. Am I inclined? If you got injured saving a kid from a burning building, maybe not. If you got injured in a bar fight and just never got around to pulling your weapon, I'm on it. The staff will turn in the gun and I will find out where it came from. If needed, I could have a court order within the hour getting around any privacy issues and have done so in the past. Argue any technicality you like.
 
I know this isn't quite what we are getting at in this thread - but thought i would share....

Went into the clinic once for a check up on my throat - was hoping to get some antibiotics for strep throat - have had that before and didn't think anything of taking my off duty piece into the clinc with me - the doctor(an out of town fill-in) decided to pull up my shirt and listen to my heart unexpectadly from the rear - wasn't really expecting that and she totally exposed my strong side carry piece before I could do or say anything - She acted like she was going to have a heart attack - i even appoloziged and explained that I was a police officer - i have never been out of the Dr.'s office soo fast with a prescription in my hand -kind of emberassing - the nurses gave me funny looks and whispered while i was walking out - thinking next time i might shove the gun in my jacket pocket or just leave it in the car
never heard anything more about it - but then again iv had my kids in that clinic many times and most of the staff knows im a cop - i sure wouldn't wanna have that happen on just a CCW
 
So what happens when you're brought in on a gourney unconscious?
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For a licensed CHP holder, who was rendered unconscious outside the hospital and is brought into the hospital while still unconscious, he/she would not be guilty of a crime since there is no mens rea. (Rather, they would not be guilty of illegally carrying in a hospital, assuming they were otherwise within the boundaries of the law.)

http://www.nolo.com/definition.cfm/Term/CDBD25E2-0C22-4452-89C87F8A413EE73B/alpha/M/
http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Mens_rea
 
As a paramedic in Florida, I deal with the subject of CCW quite often. I can say that it depends on the circumstances. If you were acting as a dirtbag, I report it. Don't want criminals carrying you know.

Example: A man on a motorcycle gets in an accident. He has a gun in the storage compartment under the seat (completely legal). The police can't take custody of it, because we have a Dem as Sheriff, and the poor guy will probably not see his gun again. So, the Deputies on scene tell me they don't want to take it. I unloaded the weapon and brought it to the hospital in the glove box of the ambulance. I hid it in the patient's bag when I returned it to him. (After the hospital searched it)

BTW, the confidentiality law you are referring to is HIPAA. That law only applies to releasing medical information. There is no restriction on turning in someone who is breaking the law. For example, if they have illegal weapons, drugs, or anything else, HIPAA does not apply in that situation.
 
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