CWP Badge

[atlctyslkr]

I've got to get me one of these!

If you carry a concealed weapon, you must have a Deluxe Concealed Weapons Permit badge. Now that the lawmakers in many states have reached the age where they no longer drop acid and have sold their VW buses, they have become practical. Finally realizing that criminals need to be blasted, they have mercifully allowed their subjects to carry concealed weapons with a permit. If you ever have to blast some Neanderthal having a badge to flash could keep the cops from blasting you before you can show them your postage stamp sized state concealed permit! This Deluxe Concealed Weapon Permit badge is just the ticket!! A beautifully crafted 3-inch badge with a sturdy pin & safety clasp attachment and non-interchangeable liberty and justice center seal.

 

[calzoom]

full of HOOEY!

Didn't sell me!

 

[WayneConrad]

I think the number of items on my bat belt would be a givaway even without the badge.

 

[AndyC]

Yuck. If I am carrying concealed, why on earth would I want to flash a badge to advertise the fact?

 

[m1aman]

if you want a badge become a cop

 

[mustanger98]

I have no idea of any legal weight this would carry as I've not heard of this before. Not having heard of any legislation effecting this, it sounds to me like a scam.

On the other hand, if legislation were passed making it so CCW permit holders would have a badge like this, it would seem to me that if the permit holder held up the badge which would theoretically be carried in a wallet type deal, it could save some trouble as far as cops IDing a permit holder as such before throwing down on a law-abiding citizen who just defended themselves. The badge would not be worn outside one's clothes to give away a permit holder, but would be presented when necessary.

I'm aquainted with an assistant DA locally who carries a sidearm all the time. He's not a police officer, being that he's an officer of the court, but he has a badge on his belt close to his sidearm. Maybe it works and maybe not, but the average person probably thinks he's a plainclothes cop or something.

 

[XLMiguel]

Do a search, noob. This subject has been beat to death and CWP badges are generally considered to be a real bad idea. They're fine for posseurs, wannabes, and the otherwise insecure, but more like to get you in trouble or beat-up. No one with a functioning brain is impressed or will pay you any mind (can you say "impersonating a police officer?") Fuhgeddaboutit.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

CCW badge again?

There are about nine points against the idea of a CCW badge
for the one or two points for one.

The one good point would be roughly this: a CCW badge concealed
next to a concealed holster, if displayed after the gun is used in a
self defese situation, might make responding cops pause before
shooting "man with gun".

I have heard of one case where a self defender was shot by
responding cops, but by multiple witnesses he did not comply or
did not hear orders to put his weapon down.

I would feel like a poser or wannabe if I wore a CCW badge, and
I think most people would think "what an idiot." They might be
right, but why prove it to everyone?

I suspect a mean prosecutor or tort lawyer could possibly make more
hay from a CCW badge than they could from a 1911 with disabled
grip safety, 2 ounce hair trigger, and Super Nuclear handloded ammo.

 

[Zen21Tao]

I remember hearing about criminals painting the tip of their guns red or orange to make cops think they had toys and not shoot them. The antis used this as thier argument for wanting to ban realistic looking toy guns with orange tips. I'm just waiting for a convicted felon to go out and buy one of these badges to use with his illegal gun so that the antis have something else to whine about. :banghead: :banghead:

 

[Carl N. Brown]

When crooks want to fool people with badges, they
get cop badges, winbreakers, blue dashboard lights.

But that possibility of crooks using a CCW or CWP "badge" is
another reason to shun those things.

 

[CSA 357]

:banghead: :banghead: not me! never

 

[real_name]

The company that makes them will print just about anything on the badges. They have a program on their website for you to build a badge with your choice of wording.
A while back I 'made' one with 'Tennessee Lobbyist Bagman' and sent the pic to my wife, she was on the floor laughing.
Of course, she already wears a TN belt buckle and is soon getting a pair of the official TN House embossed cowboy boots. Don't ask me, it must be a Halloween thing. Like the CWP version.

 

[hso]

Jewlery for pinheads.

 

[mountainclmbr]

Why would a free person want to impersonate a civil servant?

 

[PATH]

You just can't make this stuff up!

 

[mustanger98]

Why would a free person want to impersonate a civil servant?

Good question. I don't think any free person would want to. But I don't think impersonating an officer is what this is about. As to whether this badge thing would be a good idea or not, I see an upside (if it were legislated in as a legal safety precaution) and a downside (if somebody just goes and does this which may be construed as impersonation). But as somebody else already said, this has been beaten to death in other threads. Obviously to me, I didn't see those other threads.

 

[WayneConrad]

Y'all suppose I can get one of these in a radar adsorbant material? I wanna be stealth, like a ninja.

 

[Zen21Tao]

 

[mustanger98]

Now that one in post #18... I gotta get one of those and send it to my brother-in-law.NOT!

 

[Wheeler]

I've seen this same discussion on other boards numerous times. I talked to a few LEO's I know and asked their opinion of the item. Candidly, they would treat the individual wearing such a badge a poser/wannabe.

The ONLY advantage I could see to wearing such a badge would be if for some reason your concealment system failed and your firearm was inadvertantly exposed. Most people would freak out IF they noticed the gun, on the other hand, their reaction would most likely not be so strong if they saw the badge at the holster.

Having said that, I was standing in line at a "home improvement store" one day, the lady in front of me was a county police officer, wearing khaki pants and a golf shirt with an embroidered badge, along with a S&W auto. Another woman and her son got in line behind me, the boy, around ten years old, immeadiatly noticed the gun and asked his mom about it. She made some crack about the gun, and left the line.

It just goes to show that people outside our small circle of enthusiasts and affectianados loathe firearms.

Wheeler

 

[real_name]

Post #18.

 

[pete f]

At least in my state that is considered impersonating a law officer.

major felony.

 

[DevLcL]

I wouldn't mind having a badge, if it was mandatory. I wouldn't wear it openly, but maybe in one of those badge wallets. The idea of the badge concealed on or near your weapon is another idea. I'm not sure I'd want to have a badge like that though... Maybe something smaller and not as "LEO" looking.

-Dev

 

[qajaq59]

Oh yeah, that's what I need. Something shiny and metallic to flash at a cop who is already jumpy. That way it will be much easier to get my head blown off. Showing your hands and saying I have a concealed weapon and a license to carry might work just a tad better.

 

[apxpred]

Very bad idea