I wonder how an officer who wanted to "disarm you for his safety" would respond to a request he do the same for your safety? His reasoning is that he doesn't know you and therefore doesn't necessarily "trust" you....but in the reverse situation, he expects his badge to identify him as one of the so-called "good guys" and that alone is supposed to be enough to put one at ease. Why doesn't my permit identify me in a similiar manner as a non-threat? Not to sound crasss, but my permit isn't the first thing I'd show an officer if I planned on violence...a muzzle would be. While I understand the idea of being disarmed for the officer's safety, I don't necessarily agree with it. Why is HIS safety more important than MINE? Really, thats what disarming a lawfully armed person says quite plainly....that the officer believes his safety trumps a citizne's by virtue of position. By the time he runsmy plates, the officer knows more about me than I'm likley to ever know about him. He's in a much better position to figure out if I'm a threat than vice versa, in all reality.