Shaughn Leayme
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- Dec 27, 2002
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I was in Colorado some years back and it was about 2 am and I was dead tired, had come out in a hurry because my grandfather had took a turn for the worst and just made it in time..anyway... back to what happened.
I stopped at a hotel just outside a small town in the eastern part of the state, in the hopes that they had a room (no vacancy sign was burned out), unfortunately they didn't, well I walked back out to my truck, which was parked under a street light in the parking lot and was rummaging around in the box, looking for the cooler to see what there was left worth eating, well what was left didn't appeal, so I poured out the last of the coffee and was rather blearily sitting on the back bumper of the truck, sipping it, when I noticed across the access road was a 24 hour convenience store, well should be able to find something edible there, so off I went, made about 20 feet from the truck when 2 police cruisers showed up, and approached my truck from 2 different directions, I stopped and turned back, keeping my hand's where they could be seen, the officer in the second vehicle put his spot on me and I stopped, I told the officer nearest me that I had a permit to carry concealed and that I currently had 2 firearms on my person.
He asked me to keep my hands in sight and walk towards his cruiser, then after telling me to place my hands on the hood, asked where the firearms were, I told him on my right side and a second one in an ankle holster and a folding knife in my left front pocket, he told me not to move and with the second officer looking on removed my 1911 and the the snub nose 38 and the knife secured them and patted me down for any other weapons, then after I produced license registration and permit, they informed me that they had been called by the hotel, indicating suspicious behavior was happening in the parking lot and exactly what had I been doing. I explained about my situation and how tired I was and that I figured here under the lights, was a safe place to have a little break, before heading out to find another hotel and just before they arrived I had been in the process of walking across to the convenience store when I saw them.
By this time second officer came back from running me, the guns and vehicle, they gave me back my firearms unloaded and after reloading and putting them away, we chatted for a few moments about CCW and guns in general.
They thanked me for informing them right away about the fact I was armed and being so co operative, it made thier job both easier and safer for everyone and before we parted way's they checked and gave me an address of a nearby hotel, that had a room and would hold it for me.
My feeling, is that if I get stopped I will inform the officer right away, even if the law say's I don't need to, I have found in the few times I have been stopped, it makes things go so much quicker and easier and no one jumping to erroneous conclusions, because they saw a gun and I didn't tell them I had one.
I stopped at a hotel just outside a small town in the eastern part of the state, in the hopes that they had a room (no vacancy sign was burned out), unfortunately they didn't, well I walked back out to my truck, which was parked under a street light in the parking lot and was rummaging around in the box, looking for the cooler to see what there was left worth eating, well what was left didn't appeal, so I poured out the last of the coffee and was rather blearily sitting on the back bumper of the truck, sipping it, when I noticed across the access road was a 24 hour convenience store, well should be able to find something edible there, so off I went, made about 20 feet from the truck when 2 police cruisers showed up, and approached my truck from 2 different directions, I stopped and turned back, keeping my hand's where they could be seen, the officer in the second vehicle put his spot on me and I stopped, I told the officer nearest me that I had a permit to carry concealed and that I currently had 2 firearms on my person.
He asked me to keep my hands in sight and walk towards his cruiser, then after telling me to place my hands on the hood, asked where the firearms were, I told him on my right side and a second one in an ankle holster and a folding knife in my left front pocket, he told me not to move and with the second officer looking on removed my 1911 and the the snub nose 38 and the knife secured them and patted me down for any other weapons, then after I produced license registration and permit, they informed me that they had been called by the hotel, indicating suspicious behavior was happening in the parking lot and exactly what had I been doing. I explained about my situation and how tired I was and that I figured here under the lights, was a safe place to have a little break, before heading out to find another hotel and just before they arrived I had been in the process of walking across to the convenience store when I saw them.
By this time second officer came back from running me, the guns and vehicle, they gave me back my firearms unloaded and after reloading and putting them away, we chatted for a few moments about CCW and guns in general.
They thanked me for informing them right away about the fact I was armed and being so co operative, it made thier job both easier and safer for everyone and before we parted way's they checked and gave me an address of a nearby hotel, that had a room and would hold it for me.
My feeling, is that if I get stopped I will inform the officer right away, even if the law say's I don't need to, I have found in the few times I have been stopped, it makes things go so much quicker and easier and no one jumping to erroneous conclusions, because they saw a gun and I didn't tell them I had one.
