CPL card carry location

[Strange1]

I was at a local resturant and when I went pay I used my debit card. As I was waiting for the person to return my card the guy standing next to me comments "he has one too".

I was distracted for a moment and asked what he meant? He said "CPL" I got one too. I looked in my hand and there was my CPl in view in my wallet.

Honestly, It wasn't intentional. I always felt if I got pulled over by an LEO I didn't want to have to fish around for my drivers license, registration, CPL, etc. etc.

So I'm a bit curious. Where does everyone carry their CCW/CPL card?

Also, I was always trained that if a BG comes up and demands your wallet throw it to them, and hope they go away. Now this presumes they got the drop on me, and it is a lesser of evils, IE. too many others invovled, poor positioing...

So do you carry it seperately?

 

[Erich]

I keep mine in the wallet, but as the very back card in the very back slot. That way I know where it is, but I don't freak out idiots who are liable to be freaked out by accidentally showing it.

 

[Amish_Bill]

I carry mine right behind my DL.

 

[Jeff White]

I'd suggest you keep it under another card. Or you could use the old police practice of carrying a seperate wallet for that type of ID. I carry my badge, dept ID, drivers license and FOID card all in a seperate wallet from my credit/debit cards and cash. I actually never thought that this would be a problem with just a card, I can see it because of the badge we carry though....

Jeff

 

[P95Carry]

My D/L is on its own ... in a separate ''flip'' window. Then there is a removable section holding a number of plastic cards .. and the slot its plastic tongue sits into contains the CCW .. so hidden unless needing shown ... which is quick and easy - just flip up all the cards or remove them as a group.

 

[DragonRider]

I carry mine behind my DL, but it is turned faced down, so the only thing somebody would see is a blank piece of white card.

John

 

[michiganfan]

Wallet behind a couple of pictures. One time I'm cashing a check and the cashier needed a second piece of picture id. the only other picture I had was my CPL. Check got approved.

 

[Amish_Bill]

Neither of mine have had pictures. My PA license was just a bit of paper and the GA license is a piece of laminated paper.

Using it as photo-id would be too cool... ;-) A way to "flash" the anti-gun types without actually showing a gun.

 

[dairycreek]

Right behind the DL!!!

But that's only to remind me where it is (I'm getting older, much older) but the fact that I have one is nobody's business but mine and I don't care if someone sees it. By the way, why is anybody looking at my wallet anyway? Good shooting

 

[CleverNickname]

A way to "flash" the anti-gun types without actually showing a gun.

That's what CCW badges are for.

 

[bubbygator]

On advice from the LEO section over at GlockTalk, I taped mine to my DL along the long edge. That way it's always in back of my DL & never gets exposed except when I hand my DL to someone.... like the officer who just pulled me over & ran my license so he knows I'm carrying anyhow.

I got stopped once & it worked just fine. He asked why I did that & I said because I don't want to lose it. Nuff said.

Oh, yeah, the teller at the drive-through bank gets to see it when I cash a check. No problems.

 

[Strange1]

Thanks all.

I wouldn't have given it a second thought had the guy not mentioned it.
Here in Michigan the CPL is about the size of a HAllmark greeting card.

Actualy I moved it to behind my DL in a pocket. I just don't like the idea if I have to toss it to a BG, he's now got my CPL and green registration card, with my address.

I guess I may not be so willing to toss the wallet as much as I will the 357 Hydra's.

 

[Trebor]

I have to carry mine in the bill compartment of my wallet. The previous issue cheap "blue" laminated Michigan CPL is freakin' huge! It wouldn't fit in any of the pockets.

 

[LiquidTension]

Mine stays in the clear plastic part of my wallet right behind my DL. I've only had to take the DL out two or three times in the past year, and only one person saw my CWP. Didn't really matter though, he's one of the employees at a bar we frequent and he didn't care because he knew us.

 

[Strange1]

Michigan CPL is freakin' huge!

I know, I suspect they did that just to be difficult.
I hear that's going to change, it's supposed to be the same size as DL, have you heard taht as well?

 

[Zundfolge]

So why do some of you guys go out of your way to hide your CPL?


I would think that part of the reason so many fence sitters are anti CCW is because they assume anyone who has a CCW is some sort of freak ... I'd think when they see more and more normal, law abiding folk with carry permits they wouldn't see it as so odd ... plus I don't think we should be ashamed of going out of our way to get the darn thing in the first place.

 

[Trebor]

I know, I suspect they did that just to be difficult.
I hear that's going to change, it's supposed to be the same size as DL, have you heard taht as well?

Yes, I've seen the new ones. They are the same size as a Driver's License and don't look nearly as cheezy. A couple of my friends who took my CCW classes showed me their permits after they received them. The new permits are also valid for 5 years, instead of 3. Of course, I'm still stuck with the old permit for another year or so.

 

[Erich]

Zundfolge,

Just my two cents in response to your Q.

I hide mine because it's easier to carry concealed. I carry to protect myself and my loved ones, not to make a political statement about "Look, even this respectable (Imy law school friends are no doubt cracking up right now) lawyer packs a pistol." It doesn't benefit my purpose to stand out (Imaginary sign on back: Hey, BGs! Shoot this guy first!) or to freak anybody out. You know how even if you print, ordinary folks will think it's a cell phone? Ordinary folks don't start wondering (or asking ), "So, are you packing right now?," as much when they don't have the stimulus of seeing the CHL. And that's fine with me. No harm in them not knowing I'm legally armed.

Sure, I know about 500 of you are thinking, "All my friends know that I'm always packing; they don't have to ask." Fine. I'm not talking about friends. I'm talking about co-workers, colleagues, neighbors, fellow country club members or whomever you might run into when you're opening your wallet to show your drivers license or get out your library card or credit card or cash or whatever. I'm usually not too concerned about the cashier (they're working, they have other things to do), but I don't need the hassle of trying to educate folks, or asking them to keep their voices down (people don't have judgment on when to ask these questions - thinking of a certain doofus neighbor I ran into at the airport who asked me the good ol' "So, are you packing right now?" question and caused a couple of National Guardsmen to wake up).

Perhaps if more folks were carrying, I'd be less concerned. But I'm not back home in IN (where more than one person in twenty possesses a CHL), I'm out here in lefty NM, home of the government tit. And I'm in a lefty profession. I'd just rather keep the info that I'm walking heavy to myself - and only reveal it on my own terms.

Your call what you want to do, though. cheers, erich

 

[tcsd1236]

Mine are all folded and/or carried together in my wallet so I dont have to hunto for a bunch of different paperwork spread throughout my wallet.